Spring brings many celebrations ... Mother's Day, graduations, bridal showers, birthdays ... as well as Easter. Are you looking for a beautiful centerpiece for your special Spring celebration(s)? One that is unusual and eye-catching for the dining table, buffet, or gift table with a delightful rustic appeal?
One that is stunning, yet budget friendly?
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What makes this centerpiece so affordable is using greenery and flowers from your own yard. Other budget-wise ideas are to reuse your left-over dyed Easter eggs and a rustic grapevine door wreath.
The centerpiece is an oversize grapevine wreath bird's nest embellished with live fresh flowers, moss, colored eggs, and trailing greenery.
Whether you plan to use the centerpiece on your dining table or elsewhere, you will love its fresh unusual style.
If you have roses in your flower garden, they make an excellent focus flower in the centerpiece. Other garden flowers such as peonies, ranunculus, or any showy single flower works as a focus flower.
The roses in this centerpiece came from the local grocery store's floral department.
But everything else came straight from the backyard flower gardens.
Begin by loosing the grapevine wreath so the rings can be repositioned. Look at the way the grapevine rings are positioned ... the outer rings are low with the inner rings pulled upward and closer together to form the bird's nest.
Then attach florist's water vials equidistant around the middle grapevine rings. Twist brown wired florist twine around each water vial several times and then to the grapevine branches to hold the vial upright.
Add a rose and some greenery to each water vial. All of the greenery with the roses does not have to match.
Small sprigs of ivy add interest with their unique curls without overwhelming the roses.
Collect other flowers from your yard like purple clematis and red clover. Collect different textured greenery like purple-leafed cabbage, lacy artemisia, or lamb's ear.
Add a cluster of mixed small flowers and textured greenery to another water vial, and attach it in the same way as attaching the rose vials, but closer in and further down into the nest area.
Add a layer of moss at the bottom of the grapevine rings, continuing the moss up the side of the grapevine nest.
Add five to six dyed Easter eggs made from blowing the eggs out a small hole in one end of the egg. Stack the eggs on top of the moss up the side of the nest instead of clustering all the eggs at the bottom of the nest.
Place the grapevine nest on top of a large round glass plate. The plate shown is an old microwave oven's turn table.
Watch for clear glass plates at garage sales, estate sales, and thrift stores. Pie plates, dinner plates, and microwave plates all make excellent bases for floral arrangements and potted plants to keep water from damaging your furniture.
Weave ground ivy in and around the large grapevine bird's nest for a finishing touch. Wisteria vines are another source for twining greenery.
Voilà
An unusual, but budget friendly, centerpiece
for all your Spring celebrations.
