We live in an old Victorian style farmhouse, so choosing fixtures that make sense for a house of that style and from that period, helps bring kind of a cohesive feel to the overall design of our house.
It’s kind of got these long, twisty strands that lock together nicely the more you coax them into shape.And it also happened to be the cheapest kind of moss at the craft store!
Here’s the label.. No fancy specialty mosses for me!Plain and simple.I think it was around $6 Canadian for the big bag, which, with the exchange rate, probably works out to roughly free in US dollars.. To make a nest, all you need to do is cut off a small blob of moss.
About a handful should do the trick for most of your Easter nest needs..It definitely can get a little messy, so work somewhere that you can sweep up easily..
Hold your moss blob with your thumb in the middle and press down to start the indentation for the middle of the nest.. Keep shaping the moss into a nest shape, almost as if you were working with clay.
The little mossy fibers really grip onto each other with this stringy kind of moss and they really hold a shape nicely..This is almost always the way it happens, despite all of my grand plans..
I kept up with my tactic of sticking things to the walls (that need to be torn out and replaced anyway eventually) just like I did.This time, instead of nailing sticks into the walls, I hot glued on some burlap..
The orange Jack-Be-Littles came from our garden and then white ones I had picked up at the farmer’s market for super cheap.The cornucopia came from Michael’s on clearance a couple of years ago for something like 74 cents.