Jean Shea: Hi! My name is Jean Shea with Shea Studio Interiors and I am showing you how
to decorate a beautiful holiday home. The next thing, I am going to show you is
how to decorate a reef. This reef is a store bought reef; you can buy it at a local
craft store, at a floral shop at Costco. They usually run about $10 to $20 and this
one is called the mixed greens reef. It already has a couple of pine cones pre-
attached or you can start with something that is plainer. Things you are going to
need is you are going to need some floral picks, different items that you would get
from a craft store and since I am doing kind of a golden red theme, everything
that I have pulled is reinforcing those same colors.
You are going to have to use some scissors, some wire, possibly some decorative
ribbon, anything that you want to put on your reef is fair game, got some wire
snips and we have a bow which we made earlier. I like for the I put my reef on the
front door, so I kind of want it to jingle a little bit, so then I know when people are
coming in. so, I am going to start by putting a little bit of this reef, just twirl it
through and it does not really take much to secure it, you can just wrap it around
the branch, I am going to take it around my reef and just create loops and follow
the pattern of the greens.
Alright, so I am just going to tuck this in here and like I said it really does not take
much to get it secured. Get one more thing here, okay, so we have our jingly reef
now. Now, you want to take some picks, some floral picks, whatever you want to
use, you do not have to, you can use as much or as little as you want. I am just
going to start sticking these in and I like to have things that are a little bit
asymmetrical. So, I am probably just going to play up one corner of this and
perhaps even put some berries, I am just sticking in there and they are going to
stay put. Now, the key to making something look good is just to continue to shape
it. A lot of these picks are wired, you can make them curve. So, they kind of
follow the contours of the reef. This is just some holy leaves that fell off of
another garland I was using, so I am just going to tuck it in here. Because
anything that you have that you can use, you can just add. I am going to just tuck
some of these gold leaves in with the other greens and these things are going to
hold because this breaking these apart with my hands. I am just sticking them in
and you just kind of go all the way around, if you want to think of dividing your
reef in to sections, just divide it up into fits. Odd numbers are best, so I have got
one, two, three, and now four and I have got -- this is the main attraction.
This is just some really cool thing that I found that has beads on it and I am
probably going to orient the reef. So that, this is at the top and this is at the
bottom. So, I want this to hang a little bit, so I am going to try to stick it in here,
so it trails down over this side. That one I probably will try to secure in the back a
little bit. They will come through the back and you can just bend it over and it will
stay put. Okay, it s not going anywhere, okay. So now, you have with just a
handful of picks and a reef. Now, previously, we left a wire attached to the back
of this bow, so I am just going to take that wire and then actually, this is such a
bushy reef, it may not be long enough. So I am going to take a longer piece of
wire, give yourself enough thickness and you can run it through the back loop of
the bow. Now, if you can and get it through there and then just wire it around, try
to get underneath the greens so you do not bend them up. Okay, shape your bow a
little bit, that is how we make a reef and the next thing we are going to do is
create luminaries.