Make a Bay Leaf Christmas Wreath!

It was actually really easy to make this laurel leaf wreath.

• 1Prune the tree. I had about four branches that were about a yard/meter long, and about ten smaller ones.
  
• 2To begin the frame, I used copper craft wire to attach two branches together, like this:
  
  
• 3Notice the tie in two places, to make the branches sit parallel to each other instead of doing this:
  
  
• 4Then I bent them in a circle, using heavier branches all the way around to make a rough frame.
  
• 5Once I had the basic frame, I started dressing it up with more slender branches. For these, I'd tuck one end between two branches:
  
  
• 6Then I wrapped the smaller branch around (not quite as tight a spiral as in my drawing):
  
  
• 7I tucked the end into another gap between two branches.
  
• 8After the wreath felt sturdy and was fluffy and bushy, I tucked a few small branches so that their ends fanned into the middle of the circle, giving it a looser silhouette.
  
• 9Finally, I took a big red bow from a store-bought wreath I'd saved from last year and added it to the bottom!
  
  
  
  
• 10I wetted a washcloth and wiped the dust off some leaves (I see I missed a few, but it looks fine from a distance.)