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 For my granddaughter's housewarming, I decided a wreath for the front door would make a nice gift. Grapevine is a versatile base and she can easily change it up for the seasons. But it's Autumn now and I went with the traditional colors for this time of year. I hung it on the door to my studio just for this picture.  I rather like it with the charcoal door. In fact I thought about keeping it for myself and making her another one. In the end, I stuck with the original plan and gave it to her.  As it turns out it was something she had been thinking about getting for herself.

Last year I arranged a door decoration with pine cones, a jeweled dragon fly, and the word "Wicked."  I posted about that arrangement here .  It was fine, but a little hard to attach to the door in a way that kept it from leaning forward. I ended up moving it inside the porch next to the kitchen door.  Still it was a bit of a pain to get it to hang right.  This year I decided to use it again a little differently. I used a grapevine wreath for the base and transferred all the other parts to the wreath.  I added a black bow (looks navy here) to pick up the black outline around the letters.  It does the job although you would never be able to know that by this picture.  I guess the reflection on the glass was just fading everything else out. Maybe it was just the wrong time of day to snap these pictures.  I think I'll break here and take a few more to see if time of day makes a difference. Here is a closeup with the doo...