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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Easy Fall Floral

Hi Everyone, hope you had a great weekend!  

We were busy with Miss Beaux's homecoming dance and a few things around the house.  I was supposed to be recovering from my Sinus Surgery but I'm a hard one to keep down.  Yes, I had it on Thursday and everything went great.  Wish me luck that it works to cure all of these nasty sinus infections.  I know there are a lot of you 

out there with the same symptoms. 

  But let's talk about fun Fall stuff, OK?

 Here's an easy Fall floral arrangement that you can put together in just a few minutes. 

 Who doesn't love that?  

I made this for my Fall Buffet table that I showed you last week.  I chose to make a variated massed arrangement.  You can do this with any kind of flowers that you cut into varying heights.

Materials needed:  I picked out some flowers at Hobby Lobby to put this together. Make sure that you go when everything is Half Off!  It's crazy to buy this stuff at full price!  I chose cattails, some other soft  yellow grass type plant, some some mums and long grass fronds from our yard.

They kind of fluff out after you cut them.  

I just gathered the grasses together and stuck them into some floral foam inside my white ironstone pitcher.  

Layer with the cattails.  Funny (kind of) story.  I left the house to drive my daughter to work and when I came home "Someone" had eaten some of the cattails right out of the bag!  Hmmmmmm, who would do that?

  And why did they pick the MOST expensive plant in the bunch? 

So I had fewer cattails!  But it all worked out. 

Next Layer in the other grasses and scatter the mums around the edges.  

There you go~ Easy Fall Floral.  

Until Next Time,

Beaux Reves,

XO Cindy

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