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Showing posts with label Country French Florals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Country French Florals. Show all posts

Friday, November 16, 2012

Friday Flowers

While I was changing around my Entry Hall I made this Champagne Bucket arrangement with 
white roses and greenery.  
I promised you a short tutorial on this 
flower arrangement this week.  
You will love how simple and quick this is!
 I started with two dozen white roses from Costco.  
They sell them for $16.50 for two dozen.  
I picked up a bunch of greenery too while I was there.  
I keep these buckets in my Laundry Room 
and when I come home I can just dump the flowers in them with some water until I am ready to create.  
My idea was to have a mass of white roses in the center and to have the greens all around the edge.  
I placed some wet floral foam into the cooler portion of the champagne bucket and 
started placing the roses in the middle.
Remember to take all of the leaves off of the roses 
as you are working with them.  
Once I had them all in the bucket 
it was time to add the greenery.
I snipped a bunch of evergreen branches 
from my backyard to fill in 
and mix with the other greens.
For easy clean up I spread out the clear cellophane 
that the flowers are wrapped in 
and use it to put all of my clippings onto.  
Once I am done I can just wrap it all up and throw it away!
I just love green and white together during the winter.  
Red would look pretty too.  
I took little snips of the evergreen and placed them all throughout the roses to hide any holes.
It really didn't take me more than 10 minutes 
to make this arrangement.  
I spritzed it with some water to freshen it up and they usually will last at least a good week or so.  
Have A Really Great Weekend!

Until Next Time,
Beaux R'eves
XO Cindy

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Birthday Flowers in Transferware

Hello Everyone and Happy Wednesday!  
Tomorrow is my sweet friend's Birthday and I have a special gift for her.  We both like the same things so I knew when I found this awesome Transferware Tureen 
that she would love it too.  
And who doesn't love flowers?  
So I combined the two and came up with this!
The tureen is white with a pretty green pattern.  
I know it looks blue in some of the photos.
 The lid has a raised pattern on it that I adore.  
And, there are no chips in it at all.
So let's start this tutorial!  
Here's what you'll need:  Flowers (mine are from Costco), apples, floral foam, picks or skewers, ribbon, extra greenery if needed, 
   I put some wet floral foam in the bottom and taped it down.
I wanted to use apples because they always remind me of fall.  I put them on skewers and placed them in the bowl.
Now here comes the tricky part.  
I wanted to incorporate the lid also, since it is part of the gift.  I set it sideways on top of the handle and the apples and wired it tightly.
Don't worry, by the time we are done the wires won't show.  Promise!
I like to separate my flowers so that I know what I have to work with.  I usually start with the largest and work my way down.
The large gold spider Mums go in first.  
I like to work with threes for the larger impact flowers.
 Then the pretty red roses are added.  
I placed the large cattails in next and then started filling in with the smaller flowers.  The greenery will fill in any holes.  
So, I filled in all of the spaces and arranged a large bunch of what looks like wheat over the handle.  I made a bow with some sparkly ribbon and put it on top of the handle but I didn't like it.  It was too much.  
So I tied some raffia on with a maroon ribbon.  
Nope!  
Still don't like it.
I ended up just tying a simple ribbon around the wheat.  
I think it's perfect.
Very Fall!
I hope she likes it!  
By The Way, Today is my beautiful Mother's Birthday!  
She lives too far away to give these to but I sent her some!  
I Love You Mom!  
You are the BEST! 

Until Next Time,
Beaux R'eves,
XO Cindy 



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