Christmas Sale At Darby Creek

Darby Creek is wrapping up the year with a Christmas clearance! We're making room for our upcoming spring wreath line. Check out what we have to offer on our clearance page!

How To Decorate For Fall

Fall is on its way and with it comes changing colors, back to school, leaves falling, cool breezes, festivals, football,  Halloween, & Thanksgiving.  Aside from setting pumpkins out for Halloween, many people do not know how to decorate their homes for autumn. 

Here are some how-to tips to decorating for fall: 

• Embrace the fall hues and colors.  Nature is a good indicator of seasonal colors, and with the color changes taking place outdoors, you will see tons of orange, red, gold, dark green, and brown. 
• Take advantage of autumn-specific events such as pumpkin festivals, harvest festivals, and more. 
• When the leaves fall, so do many nuts such as buckeyes.  These make a simple and inexpensive decoration.
• You can find simple decorating accents everywhere during the fall.  During your trips to the grocery store, look for pumpkins and multi-colored gourds. 
• A fall wreath makes the perfect decor accent for your front door, wall, or mantel.  Buy a beautiful, designer fall wreath from Darby Creek Trading.
• Fall centerpieces and floral arrangements make a great accent in the home - perfect for displaying on a table, bookshelf, or other surface.

The easiest way to decorate your home for fall is to buy your fall wreath and matching centerpiece from Darby Creek Trading.  New for the 2011 Fall Season, our designers are making select wreaths with centerpieces and floral arrangements to match.  This is the perfect way to maintain a color theme throughout your home, while decorating for fall.

Watch our video to view a sample of our new designs.



If you like what you see, visit us at http://www.darbycreektrading.com/ to view our entire selection of wreaths and flower arrangments.

Spring is almost here!

So, I think we've all had enough of the cold and gross weather (we sure are sick of it in Ohio).  Luckily, the official start of spring is less than 5 days away!  We have been preparing for this season for months here at Darby Creek Trading.  Our Spring 2011 designs are in and our floral supply is stocked. 

A great way to welcome spring into your home is to display one of our spring wreaths on your front door, on a wall, or above the mantel.  Our wreaths are full of bright colors, spring flowers, and look absolutely stunning. 

One of the reasons people love our wreaths is that we find the most realistic materials we can.  So, while trying to keep our floral up to the standards of "real live plants", we have an amazing designer who knows just how to put everything together.  You won't find more beautiful wreaths at a lower price than at Darby Creek Trading.

Here are some things to think about when purchasing a spring wreath:

• Are the materials suitable for outdoors?  We offer 2 types of wreaths - natural and silk.  The natural wreaths are great for indoors but don't hold up so well outside in humidity and poor weather.  Silk wreaths will hold up for many years outside. Of course, wreaths will always last longer if kept out of direct elements (sunlight, rain, snow, etc.), but the silk will hold up better than anything else in these conditions. 
• What is the ideal wreath size for a front door?  The standard width for exterior doors is 32 inches.  We typically recommend a wreath between 24-28 inches for a front door.  This will provide ample coverage while not exceeding the size of the door.
• For how long during the year can I display a spring wreath?  Spring wreaths are very versatile.  The colors found in spring wreaths are generally seen year round.  Therefore, we usually tell people that a spring wreath can be displayed during all seasons, year round.  It is not unusual to see spring wreaths displayed during the fall and even the Christmas season.

With this in mind, take a look around our webstore at our huge selection of wreaths!  We guarantee it's the best you'll find (we aren't biased or anything...)

In the meantime, we at Darby Creek Trading will be embracing spring with open arms.  Pleasant weather at last!

Updates Galore!

We've been very busy lately...

Our webstore recently went through a complete makeover, be sure to check it out!

Darby Creek Trading now carries a high-quality line of home decor products & recently started carrying a new line of floral arrangements and centerpieces. 

Our 2011 Spring Wreaths are now in!  We have over 75 classic designs in addition to 25+ brand new spring designs.  These wreaths are great through the summer and year round - order yours before we run out!

If you want to stay current with everything going on with us, there are a few different ways to keep in touch.  Follow us on Twitter (@DarbyCreekTrade) - Like us on Facebook   - Subscribe to this blog!

Stay tuned for more updates from Darby Creek Trading.  To learn a little more about us, watch the video below.

How to Make a Wreath - Fall Wreath

This week we are going to be talking about how to make a Fall Wreath the right way. Very Often customers ask us about the correct directions for how to make a wreath, and give it that professional flair, rather than a kitschy home-made look. Today we are going to show the model we use, and hopefully with a little practice, you too can produce a beautiful fall wreath for any living space. We've included a video, as well as a step by step guide. Hope this helps!

How to make a Wreath - Fall Wreath

Step By Step

Things You'll Need for your Fall Wreath

• Wire Cutters
• Scissors
• Hot Glue Gun or Glue Pot
• Wood or Metal Floral Picks, or cooking skewers
• Floral Tape, Wire, & Sticks
• Grapevine Wreath Base
• Floral Foliage & Berries
• 3 medium artificial pumpkins
• Artificial Sunflowers

Fall Wreath Step One

Creating the Hanger - Wrap a piece of wire with floral tape, twist it, then insert through the grape vine. Then wrap it around the fall wreath to form a loop. Twist it tight to secure the loop in place and then remove any excess wire with the wire cutters.

Fall Wreath Step Two

Adding the Background - Using the Fall Floral Foliage, add a wreath pick to each piece using floral tape. Begin placing lengths of floral around the wreath evenly using hot glue until it covers about 80% of the grapevine. Be Careful not to burn yourself! Use as little or as much floral as you want until you achieve the desired look that you are going for.

Fall Wreath Step Three

Adding Pumpkins - Insert floral stick into pumpkin with some hot glue. Wrap sticks with floral tape to help hide them and then place pumpkins on the wreath again using hot glue. We don't want these to come off in the wind!

Fall Wreath Step Four

Add Sunflowers - We are going to fill out the rest of our wreath with Sunflowers placing them carefully around the wreath in a natural way while covering the grapevine backing. Remember to keep using floral picks and floral tape to hide the ends of the flowers. This also helps secure them into the wreath securely. try not to space them all out exactly even or this will give the wreath a very rigid feel.

Fall Wreath Final Step

Final Touches- Here at darbycreektrading.com we like to add some of our special artificial vine, just to give our wreaths that extra little touch. You also want to end by fluffing and rearranging the floral until it looks just right. Tada! A perfect wreath that will suit you both indoors and out. Check it out here: Sunflower & Pumpkin Fall Wreath

Of course if after watching this video you decide that its just a bit too much for you, you can always swing by our site and check out our wonderful selection of silk wreaths just like this one! We have several to choose from, and we can always custom make them to specific sizes if need be. So stop by and check out our Fall Wreaths today!

Fall Wreaths from Darby Creek Trading spur our first blog!

As we gear up for the fall season here at Darby Creek, we have decided to create a blog in an attempt to keep everyone who may be interested, up to date on what is going on in our busy lives.

This summer we have added a new web marketing intern to our staff in order to keep things running smoothly as we prepare for the fall and holiday seasons.

In our next blog post we will be introducing this wonderful young man, who will be helping us out, and has also convinced us to create some helpful tutorials for those at home who may be wishing to try their hand at creating beautiful wreaths similar to ours.

We will hopefully be creating several helpful how-to guides on the topics of:

• How to Make a Wreath
• How to Make a Fall Wreath
• How to Make a Christmas Wreath
• Other?
  

We look forward to your feedback and we hope you stay tuned.

If building a wreath doesn't suit you, or you find it to be too much work, Let us take care of it!

Darby Creek continues to offer one of the greatest selections of Wreaths on the web. Check out all our varieties such as:

Fall Wreath

Christmas Wreath

Spring Wreath

We hope you have a wonderful day,
and if you have any questions or want to give us your thoughts,
give us a call toll-free at 1-888-327-2927 or just give us a shout here!

Sincerely,

Darby Creek Staff