DIY:decorating with branches

do you remember the handmade turquoise and poppy wreath i made a few months ago? (i know, way too advanced to be making christmas decorations!) well, he will finally be hung tomorrow on our front door(i can't wait!). since then i've made tons of other DIY stuff for our christmas decorations (have i told you am all over the place when it comes to ideas?) and i just can't wait to put them up :)
one of the things i really, really, REALLY wanted to do is to make a simple branch decoration, which can be used all year-round. i've been seeing these simple branches in interior design magazines and blogs and they look ultra dramatic and yet so subtle without looking tacky. they easily complement any style.
they are so dizzily easy to make too! just take a branch and plonk them on to a nice vase. in my case, i had to drag the mister up the Rock to look for some dead branches and i had to handpaint all the white seed pearls i bought at the flea with the mister's paint and glue-gunned them to the branches :D (he's so handy hehe)
for the branch to stand upright, i had to put a chunk of oasis (floral foam) inside the vase and then covered it with moss. i had bought some bird decor in Spain previously and the mister thought of putting one on a branch. voila! we now have a christmas robin!