DIY: Suet Wreath

DIY 2 Minutes

If you like to feed the birds over the winter, you can make your own suet! I found this project on the KAYTEE.COM website.

Items you’ll need for this craft:

Bundt cake pan – You can use mini Bundt cake molds if you want to make multiple wreaths for multiple gifts.
4 cups Kaytee bird seed – Choose a seed that fits with your region to attract birds in your area.
Cranberries
1 and 1/2 packets of unflavored gelatin
1/2 cup warm water
1/3 cup corn starch 
3 Tablespoons light corn syrup
Thick ribbon
Gift wrap – If you’re making this as a gift, you’ll want to find a box that fits the wreath and wrapping supplies to make it festive.
Kitchen items – You’ll need a drying rack, medium-sized sauce pan, spatula, stove, refrigerator, and measuring utensils. This craft requires heat and cooling, so children will need assistance and supervision if helping with this craft.
Nonstick cooking spray.

Spray the Bundt pan mold liberally with nonstick cooking spray. Place the cranberries in the pan how you would like them to look on the front of the wreath. Set aside for use after the mixture is ready.

Measure out four cups of bird seed in an easy-to-pour container. Set aside and have this ready for when the mixture is ready.

In a medium-sized sauce pan on medium heat, whisk together the packets of unflavored gelatin and warm water. Whisk until it is dissolved. 

Add in the corn starch and light corn syrup, as shown in the image above. Whisk until there are no lumps of cornstarch left. 

The mixture will start to form a thick paste after all the ingredients begin to bind. The paste should be smooth and thick.

Once the paste is formed, remove the pan from the heat and stir in the four cups of bird seed that was set aside from step three. Tip: spray your spatula with nonstick cooking spray before mixing together to make clean up easier! 


Carefully add the combined mixture into the Bundt pan mold, making sure to pack it down and keep the cranberries in place. Evenly distribute the mixture so the wreath will be balanced when it sets.

Pack the seed down with the spatula. Once all the mixture is in the pan, place the entire pan in the fridge. Remove it from the fridge when it’s hard to the touch. This should take no longer than an hour.
After the wreath is hardened, take it out of the fridge and gently remove the wreath from the pan by flipping it upside down onto a cooling rack. Let it dry completely before adding ribbon or handling it too much. It’s best to let it dry for 12-24 hours. 

Tie a thick ribbon around the wreath and then to a tree or feeder hanger. Bring it outside and carefully hang it where the birds will see it. If you’re giving it as a gift, wrap it up gently and give the gift as soon as possible so the wreath materials stay fresh for the birds. 

SOURCE: KAYTEE.COM

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126 thoughts on “DIY: Suet Wreath”

    1. LOL
      Morning kea!
      I don’t have any place to hang them here–we have mature woods–no low branches. and the bears, till they hibernate, will just climb the trees and take the whole wreath–or the raccoons. we can’t even put out peanuts for the blue jays. the squirrels stick them all in their cheeks and run like hell.

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  2. Morning All
    busy week ahead–family coming “sometime” on Wednesday (as a hostess, i love that vagueness)
    plus our family get together is early this year due to my son working weekends so busy busy, busy.
    my son is also bringing his two dogs so i gotta dog proof the house.

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      1. Morning Filly!
        yep…busy time of year.
        looks like all the snow has melted–we were getting light rain yesterday afternoon.
        Did you see Loeffer (SP?) is not the nominee for Sect of AG???
        seems someone is leaking the wrong info or it’s just lefties guessing

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  7. Feisty Hayseed

    November 24, 2024 12:50 am

    Democrats using government funds to finance their political campaigns
    

    Planned Parenthood spent $40
    Million last election cycle to elect Democrats

    PP got $670 Million from the government in the last reported year

    They are a corrupt partisan group propped up by a corrupt system

    This is just the tip of the iceberg@DOGEhttps://t.co/we1zl8eLKy

    — Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) November 21, 2024

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  12. Happy Caturday! What is Caturday? A pawesome time to examine how, just like cats, waste in Washington has nine lives. Here are nine examples of wasteful spending by the federal government studying our feline friends that are purrfect for @DOGE to cut.”

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    1. EXCERPT: “The senator who pledged to make bureaucrats “squeal” is making them hiss.

      On Saturday, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, launched a “Caturday” campaign on social media to expose nine examples of Washington waste, including a government-funded study on eating cats in Madagascar.

      “Just like cats, waste in Washington has nine lives,” Ernst told The Federalist in an exclusive statement….”

      https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/23/sen-joni-ernst-highlights-nine-examples-of-washington-waste-in-caturday-campaign/

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  13. Well, I’ll say this for my Huskers – for 9 straight years, WI has beaten NE in our annual match-up. We gave them a nice ass-kicking yesterday (44-25) and the trophy will remain in Lincoln for the first time. And for the first time since 2016, we are bowl eligible. I’ll never forgive them, tho, for turning down a bowl invite during COVID even tho we hadn’t earned it. Cowards, one and all!!! [Man, you should have seen that stadium rocking!!!]

    EXCERPT: “Wisconsin and Nebraska may not have the deepest history, but they do have a long one.

    The Badgers and Cornhuskers’ first-ever meeting occurring in 1901, after which the two programs met four times over the next 70-plus years: twice in 1965-66 and again in 1973-74. They have played 11 times since Nebraska joined the Big Ten in 2011, including in the 2012 Big Ten championship game (when the conference still adhered to the Legends and Leaders divisions).

    Upon that christening of a new rivalry was the christening of a new trophy: The Freedom Trophy, to be awarded annually to the winner of the game between the red-and-white-clad teams. The athletic departments of the schools announced the new piece of hardware, which features both schools’ stadiums clad in an American flag to honor the U.S. military.

    (November 2022 after WI beat us on our home turf 15-14)

    The schools announced the Freedom Trophy in November 2014 as a way to celebrate their burgeoning rivalry, but also celebrate the military ties to both schools.

    “Trophy games are part of the tradition of college football and I’m thrilled that we’re going to be introducing one into our rivalry with Nebraska,” former Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez in a release at the time. “The Freedom Trophy brings recognition to two historic football venues and it honors our nation’s veterans. It is something I know the coaches, student-athletes and fans of both programs will embrace for years to come.”….

    “….Depicted on the Freedom Trophy is Camp Randall Stadium, home of the Badgers, and Memorial Stadium, home of the Cornhuskers. The two stadiums and embraced by an American flag, honoring the legacy of those who have served the United States.

    While the trophy name may seem arbitrary, it actually pays further homage to both stadiums. Camp Randall was a training ground for military personnel during the Civil War, and Memorial Stadium was built after World War I to commemorate service men and women. With that in mind, it does make sense — even if the Wisconsin-Nebraska rivalry may not be the most natural outside of both schools playing in the Big Ten West.”

    https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/college/uw/2023/11/15/freedom-trophy-wisconsin-nebraska-big-ten-football-game-military/71480008007/

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  14. 🚨🇺🇸TRUMP LEANS TOWARDS JAY BHATTACHARYA FOR N.I.H.

    🚨🇺🇸TRUMP LEANS TOWARDS JAY BHATTACHARYA FOR N.I.H.

    Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya, known for his criticism of COVID lockdowns and co-authoring the Great Barrington Declaration, is reportedly Trump’s top choice for N.I.H. (National Institute of Health) director.

    This… pic.twitter.com/PcNuELVMti

    — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 24, 2024

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  15. “Tom Homan Introduces Family-Size Immigrant Trebuchet To Speed Up Deportation Process”

    U.S. · Nov 23, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    EL PASO, TX — Americans were assured that the solution to the migrant crisis along the southern U.S. border was close at hand, as soon-to-be Border Czar Tom Homan revealed plans to introduce a family-size trebuchet to speed up the deportation process.

    With the plan calling to use the new device to replace the existing single-person trebuchet, Homan said the family-size trebuchet will allow government officials to fling a significantly greater number of human beings back across the border at a time.

    “When we talk about throwing them out, we mean throwing them out,” Homan told reporters at a press conference announcing the plan. “The Border Patrol has been messing around with these Mickey Mouse single-person trebuchets for long enough. We’ve got a big problem that requires a big solution, and that solution is a big trebuchet.”

    Early tests of the device yielded promising results, as a family of four from Honduras was deported via trebuchet and landed several hundred yards into Mexico. “As you can see, this will improve our deportation efforts exponentially,” Homan said. “I have one message to people who are in this country illegally: pack your bags. Actually, I have a second message: wear clothing with a decent amount of cushion. Because that trebuchet will really chuck you out there.”

    At publishing time, the Mexican government announced plans of its own to construct giant piles of tortillas along the border to serve as soft landing spots for incoming families of illegal immigrants arriving via trebuchet.

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  19. I just made a quick run to the grocery store and FD for cat litter. I had to wait behind another customer at the grocery store so I started perusing the $1 cards on the carousel since my Sis’s BD is coming up. Found THE perfect card for her, considering all her years of trucking: an old beat-up truck on the front and inside: “Count the memories, not the miles!”

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  20. Sunday Strip: The Ghost of Future Past – Let freedom ring.

    Robert W Malone MD, MS, Nov 24, 2024

    “We might think that WOKE is dead, yet the ghost of wokeness past just goes on and on and on…”

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  21. “You know it’s bad when the socialist rag of Great Britain, which is mostly fit for using on your backend in the commode, had to opine.”

    “Go WOKE, go broke. But will it ever end?”

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  22. “Almost fifty percent of the federal “workforce” never returned back to work after the lock-downs. Watching the mass exodus of the federal “workforce” after Trump signs an executive order forcing all federal employees back to the office will be truly entertaining. According to Vivek and DOGE, this will be the first step to reducing the federal budget.”

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  25. “The A-Team: From Silent Running to Public Rugging”

    Burning Bright, Nov 24, 2024

    EXCERPT: “Riding high on the biggest mass psychological inflection point of the Info War thus far allows us to leave aside readings of the election system and the truth or underlying falsity that defines it because the public mandate has always been the key, and now the cat’s out of the bag.

    The matrix has broken for a larger plurality of the American people operating on the normie, least awakened layers of the Info War than ever before, priming the pump for the wars … and the many, many wins to come.

    Yes … the war itself is not over; it’s simply entered a new phase, and it’s going to get even rockier from here … mark my words. Unless, of course, you thought we had already crossed over the precipice? And just like a good movie needs good actors, an Info War needs digital soldiers … and we’re seeing some of both converge on the game board in the most memetic manner possible, which signals a phase shift rather than an ending.

    And the enemy knows this, which is why their panic pattern has been as paradoxically consistent as it has been chaotic, as they attempt to chart a path through the waters of a storm we were called to embrace rather than to avoid. To wit, negative indicators abound in the Info War, and boy have the twin DOGE and Trump 2.0 deployments accelerated this panic pattern for all to see.

    From Hegseth to Homan, Elon to the entire concept of government efficiency itself, it’s not just the media industrial complex reacting with unbridled fear, but the administrative state, up to and including the military industrial complex.

    The events of the last few weeks should have firmly laid to rest any doubt that what we’re looking at during the advent of Trump 2.0 is a narrative translation layer of the Great Awakening and the transition to the Golden Age under the guise of a series of organic convergences.

    For starters, when you’ve got a de facto MAGAvengers walking out to the modern day colosseum with Donald Trump (including Elon Musk, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Vivek Ramaswamy,) you’re seeing the culmination of a public narrative arc, wherein several mass psychological pincers have closed around the central narrative.

    And while these MAGAvengers are the narrative layer leaders for a reason, the team is much more expansive, and some of the brightest bits of bicameral and temporal signal connecting our stolen past to our promised future have come from some surprising places of late…..”

    https://burningbright.substack.com/p/the-a-team

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  26. Hell’s bells! I did it again – mixed up my Sis’ BD with her daughter’s, which is the 27th. Hers was yesterday…..sigh….oh, well, she’ll get her card late.

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  29. I haven’t had a chance to check into this yet…

    zephyrbreeze
    November 24, 2024 12:51 pm

    Shopping Health Tip:

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    https://shoppingclubfreedom.com/

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    1. That wouldn’t surprise me at all – a lot of US manufacturers have their production facilities located in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, etc., as do other countries. Including our food items.

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  31. Just The News: “The COP29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, ended Saturday after two weeks of bitter division, with a pledge from countries considered wealthy pledging to provide $300 billion a year by 2035 to poorer countries to help them deal with the supposed impacts of climate change and to move their economies toward clean energy.

    COP stands for “Conference of the Parties,” which are the nearly 200 countries that have ratified a treaty called the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). It was signed back in 1992, according to the BBC. Finally, at 2:40 a.m. local time on Sunday, more than 30 hours past the deadline to reach an agreement, “the gavel finally went down on the agreement between nearly 200 countries,” according to CNN.

    “People doubted that Azerbaijan could deliver. They doubted that everyone could agree. They were wrong on both,” said Mukhtar Babayev, the president of COP29 who is the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources and who has held various positions in the Azerbaijani state-oil company. 

    The conference opened on November 12 with the president of the host country, Ilham Aliyev, criticizing “Western fake news” about the country’s emissions and said nations “should not be blamed” for their fossil fuel reserves. He said that oil and gas are a “gift of God,” according to the BBC. 

    India’s representative to COP, Chandni Raina, blasted the $300 billion as “abysmally poor” and a “paltry sum.” She was among those who wanted the figure to be $1.3 trillion a year instead of $300 billion. She said the agreement reached was “nothing more than an optical illusion” and unable to “address the enormity of the challenge we all face.” 

    Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) attended the annual conference, as it normally does. CFACT, an American organization, “was founded to promote a much-needed, positive alternative voice on issues of environment and development.” In other words, they are clearly skeptics of the goals and purpose of COP29 and the alarmism over the theory and science behind man-made climate change. 

    Craig Rucker of CFACT points out what some would call inconvenient truths, such as that “Nations such as China and India are given a pass on emissions reductions and paying out funds. This, despite the fact that China is the world’s number one emitter of greenhouse gases and boasts the second largest economy, while India’s economy is all the way up at number five.”

    He also points out that if United Nations goals are met, total annual global climate spending will climb from its current $3 trillion a year to $5 trillion a year by 2050. While most attendees of the conference recognize that when President-elect Trump takes office in January, the U.S. will likely once again withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement and cut off U.S. funding to the COP29 agenda. 

    “Let’s hope President Trump resurrects climate and energy reality for the U.S. and the world before much more damage is done,” Rucker concludes.”

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  32. Post Millennial: “Target has rehired a North Dakota woman after she was reportedly fired over a “dress code issue” when she wrote “Trust in Jesus” on her nametag and would not take it off. Backlash ensued, forcing the company to reconsider and rehire the woman this week.  

    Denise Kendrick, who is an employee at Target at its Fargo, North Dakota location, said that on November 16 she was fired over a “dress code issue” after she said she would not take her name tag off where she had written “Trust in Jesus” with a cross, per WTOV. 

    Kendrick said that she was instructed not to wear the name tag at her place of work by a manager. She replied, “Well, I’ve seen people with rainbows on theirs. I’m going to continue to wear this name tag.” When she refused, Kendrick said she was fired for the offense. When the woman asked supervisors for the reason for the firing in writing, they refused to do so.  

    “They gave me this paper with all these phone numbers on it and said, ‘If you have any questions about the violation of the dress code, just call one of these numbers.’ And he just kept repeating it, and we just kept going back and forth, and it was going nowhere,” Kendrick said at the time, per the Daily Mail.  

    After the event caught steam on social media, a Target spokesman told reporters, “Upon learning of this situation, we conducted a review and determined that the team member should not have been terminated.” The spokesman added, “We apologized to her, offered to reinstate her immediately, and are pleased that she is back working in our store.” ….

    The controversy has drawn a lot of backlash against Target, which has been seen as a more left-wing store brand in recent years, as it has made “tuck-friendly” swimsuits available for trans-identified males.  

    One user on social media wrote, “I don’t shop at Target! I hope that lady sues Target for wrongful termination! I am so sick of the intolerant left! They are all so wretched,” per the Mail’s report. Another user said, “You’d think Target would allow their employees to express themselves. At least that’s what they are giving off, but apparently not.”

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  33. Post Millenial: “An art exhibit at East Tennessee State University’s (ETSU) Reece Museum has sparked backlash for featuring a depiction of House Speaker Mike Johnson in front of Nazi swastikas that morph into Christian crosses along with other imagery connecting conservatives, Donald Trump and Christianity to Hitler.

    The artwork is on display in the Fletcher Exhibit at the museum, which is held in remembrance of former student Fletcher Dyer who passed away in 2009. The exhibit invites artists to submit works addressing global issues. According to Campus Reform, the display also includes depictions of President-elect Donald Trump alongside swastikas, Adolf Hitler, and Ku Klux Klan imagery, as well as other pieces showing conservative figures next to anti-semitic slogans like “Jews will not replace us.”

    https://x.com/campusreform/status/1860005384716488938

    One controversial piece, titled Evolution, portrays Speaker Johnson alongside swastikas turning into crosses. The artist, Joel Gibbs, said the work critiques what he perceives as a connection between fascism and certain right-wing Christian groups.

    “The fascism we seem to have in this country has attached itself to extreme right Christian groups,” Gibbs said, according to WJHL. “So I just figured by having a cross evolve into a swastika with him there smirking, it would sort of just give a, it’s a very large political cartoon in my sensibility.”

    “JUST IN: East Tennessee State University is hosting at “art” exhibit that includes a KKK mask made from an American flag. The exhibit also portrays President Trump and Republicans as Nazis. Another part of the display features a cartoon image of House. Speaker Mike Johnson behind swastikas that morph into Christian crosses. This is what passes for art at a taxpayer-funded university.”

    https://x.com/toddstarnes/status/1859992548338458746

    The Reece Museum’s exhibit features over 90 pieces of art. While there is no official theme, exhibit co-director Carrie Dyer stated her support for “artwork that advocates for democracy, voting rights, and confronts systemic racism.” Part of the proceeds from the exhibit go toward funding a scholarship for an ETSU creative design student.The exhibit has drawn criticism, prompting ETSU President Brian Noland to release a statement addressing the concerns.

    “I am aware of the concerns that have been raised about works selected to appear in this year’s FL3TCHER EXHIBIT on display in the Reece Museum,” Noland said, per WJHL. “As a Christian and the son of a veteran, I can say that I personally find some of the views expressed in this year’s exhibit abhorrent. However, as the president of a public university, which is bound by the laws of the State of Tennessee as well as the U.S. Constitution, I must ensure that our university adheres to state and federal law.”

    “I am working to gain more information, and we will undertake an examination of the process through which we allow guest artists, speakers, and other third-party groups to present information on campus,” he added.”

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  36. Just The News: “President-elect Donald Trump should plan to fire staffers at the Department of Justice who worked on the criminal cases he has faced since leaving office four years ago, Republican Senator Eric Schmitt, Mo., argued on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. 

    Schmitt, a former attorney general of Missouri, said that the DOJ staffers who had worked on the criminal cases against Trump were in effect undercutting the will of the voters. 

    “And anybody part of this, this effort to keep President Trump off the ballot and to throw him in jail for the rest of his life because they didn’t like his politics, and who continue to cast him as a ‘threat to democracy,’ was wrong, and so we’ll see where that goes,” Schmitt told Kristen Welker, host of “Meet the Press.”

    The DOJ’s two indictments against Trump, both overseen by special counsel Jack Smith, include the 40-count Mar-a-Lago document case and the four-count 2020 election subversion case, according to the New York Post. 

    “[The indictments] all fell apart under the weight of the law. And so I do think there needs to be accountability. I think that getting it back to crime-fighting is important, but there has to be accountability for these kinds of abuses,” Schmitt contended.”

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  44. Even more evidence against her….

    “Dr Janette Nesheiwat against pro-life laws, “As a doctor I’m concerned for safety. Are we gonna see an uprising in back alley abortions, young teenagers involuntarily hurt themselves trying to self-abort their fetuses out of fear & not having alternatives”

    https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1860771475189366856

    https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/11/24/president-trump-must-reconsider-the-nomination-of-janette-nesheiwat-to-be-surgeon-general-n2182426

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  48. Geez, I hate fall/winter, when it gets dark so early….and it’s been foggy here all day so it’s already getting dark at only 4:10 in the afternoon! Yuck! Wheezer finally showed up about an hour ago. Busy doing other things, I guess.

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