Bouquet Making

I decided to make my own bouquet for the wedding since we weren't using any flowers. I found an amazing one on etsy and it was beautiful but it was so expensive! This is what it looked like.

So I figured I should put my art degree to use, and started gathering supplies to make my own. Here's what I used:

A large styrafoam ball, cut in half (we couldn't find halves at the store)
Scrapbooking paper
scissors
a hot glue gun
a 1 1/2 in dowel rod
buttons
ribbon
long straight pins

After cutting the styrafoam ball in half, I had Brandon cut the dowel rod at an eyeballed length to make it look like a handle. I pushed the dowel rod into the bottom about an inch to make a dent. I then wrapped the handle with yellow ribbon and then wrapped a white ribbon with grey detailing over it. I then hot glued the handle into the styrofoam ball.


Then we had a massive cutting/folding/gluing party to make so many pinwheels. We decided on three by three inch squares and Brandon made a template to cut the corners evenly so I could fold them.

 

 

After using hot glue to secure the corners in the middle, I covered the ugly glue spot with a cute button.

 

Eventually I had a large pile of colors and patterns to pick from.

 

I'm sorry I didn't take any pictures of me gluing them to the styrafoam, but basically I did what I could to cover all of the white and make them fit togehter nicely. There were a few gaps that I couldn't cover, so I took a pinwheel and used a long straight pin to stick it into the styrafoam and it added a little depth to the layers of pinwheels.

 

I then used a large (1 or 1 1/2 inch) ribbon and glues loops on the bottom of the styrafoam by the handle to cover it the best I could. It also added more roundess to the whole thing instead of looking like half a circle. Lastly, I used very skinny grey ribbon and just glued some loose pieces to the base right by the handle so they would dangle.

 

Final result....

 

 

 

I LOVE IT!!!

And the best part was it all cost me less than $10. Maybe I should open a business?

This and That

So, I'm not sure what exactly to write about minus just the little things that have been going through my head.

1. I am very excited that we already got a lot of neat things for our apartment, like a whole cabinet full of beautiful dishes. But we don't have any silverware. Or a vacuum. Or a place to sit. haha

2. In less than one month, I will be married!

3. We're going away this weekend to a lake house my friend's grandparent own and they've invited a ton of us to come stay with them.

4. After kickboxing and zumba this week, I'M BEAT.


Sorry this port isn't more interesting. Nothing major has happened this week. Any suggestions on topic you would like me to write on?