Birds on a Wire

We're on a bird kick. These were our "Christmas" decorations. And by that what I mean is we designed them for Christmas but didn't actually get them up until January 7th. Don't judge us. In keeping with the season, we decided to stick to shimmery winter tones and swooping forms, and this time used some simpler materials.

Ugly pictures first:

For the base, John formed wire into three tiered hoops (the tiers being held together at staggered heights with white thread) and covered them with cream ribbon, which we just tied off with a knot.

One 10 yard roll of ribbon covered all three hoops.












And voilà! I named them ballerina hoops.








My one regret is that we didn't use more bird forms. We ended up with just two: one big, one small.

We attached them using pins:

And we tied the top off with a knot:

It has worked pretty well as a casual decoration to just keep up for a couple weeks. They're nice to have breakfast under and not so intrusive that we're getting sick of them. The only painful part was all the time it took to cut out the birds. (If you're cutting them out by yourself, budget about two hours. Other than that, it only takes about an hour to put hoops together, wrap them, and hang the whole thing.)