Wreath of the Day, From the Archives – Pine Tar
When you work with fresh greens for an hour or for a day, your hands acquire a coating of black tar which is difficult to get off. Many members find working in gloves cumbersome, but it takes a lot of scrubbing and soaking to rid yourself of the evidence of wreath making once you get home. We won’t even discuss how to de-glitter your hair, skin, and clothes – that is an impossibility and you will sparkle well into February. The pine tar, however, can be dealt with through a thorough rub with vegetable shortening, like Crisco, followed by handwashing with liquid dish detergent like Joy. A nail brush helps too, but the grease plus the detergent is pretty magical. You could use butter, we suppose, but that would be wasteful. A beautiful, all natural wreath like the one below would have deposited a fair amount of stickiness onto the decorator, but isn’t it gorgeous?
Noted floral arranger and Garden Club of the Back Bay member Donna Morrissey sponsored today’s Wreath of the Day post. Donna frequently represents the Club at Art in Bloom at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. We sincerely hope Art in Bloom will be back in 2021.
