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Flower Lab Craft Party

Tweeny — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:13:59 +0000

After Stephani married Kyle, she still had flowers on the brain! For her birthday, she decided to invite all her girlfriends over for a floral design how-to demonstrated by yours truly! The arrangement we made was simple and straight forward with big impact. We made long rectangular shaped arrangements in foot long metal containers with white hydrangea, white branches, white dephinium, and dendrobium orchids.

I like to use this style of arrangement in multiples for a long table. It’s especially fun to use 4 of them in a row along the escort card table.

The finished product close-up:

Each participant had a container ready for her to fill with floral foam and flowers:

Inserting the hydrangea into the floral foam:

The florists hard at work!

Almost done! The tall white sticks were actually from IKEA and we cut them in half. Any sort of stick or branch would work – I especially like using bleached cork screw willow.

There were too many to arrange them down the length of Stephani’s dining room table AND have room for food so we placed them outside ready to be taken home. Everyone did a wonderful job! Don’t they look professional? Beautiful and stunning!

Muchas gracias to Analyn who took the photos!

If you or anyone is interested in hosting a floral how-to for a fun craft party, The Flower Lab is ready to deliver!

For the Birds

Tweeny — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:00:04 +0000

So our first baby is due on April 1 (ha ha!) and after 6 months of not really doing anything in preparation, I began to feel the urgency! I came across an excellent blog post on SewLiberated detailing a Montessori style bedroom for her new baby, Finn. When I saw this post, I was like, WOW! Very inspiring!

One of the beautiful handcrafted items featured in Finn’s Montessori style bedroom was a branch with hand-sewn birds attached. With all the wedding arrangements we’ve been doing with manzanita branches, I knew I could make something similar!

The pattern for making the birds came from the Spool Sewing blog. And I used some various fabrics I stockpiled from our recent trip to Japan.

I had a couple of sand-blasted manzanita branches (about 24″ tall) leftover from a wedding and attached the birds using a glue gun. We’re going to hang the branch on the wall in the baby’s room. Hopefully soon!

Valentine’s Day Tissue Holders

Tweeny — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:08 +0000

I saw these super cute Valentine’s Day tissue cozies on the wonderful blog Stitch/Craft the other day. Instead of traditional Valentine’s Day cards, which I was thinking about letterpressing, I thought these would be fun to make and quite unique! This year Valentine’s Day AND Lunar New Year fall on the same day, so I was trying to come up with some creative card to celebrate both, but I was unsuccessful. Tissue holders to the rescue! And regular Lunar New Year Tiger cards to be letterpressed later!

I printed out clear and simple directions from Stitch/Craft and
purchased cute fabric from Joanne’s – hubby’s least favorite store after Michael’s – dragged him there since it was on the way one day!

And used some of these paper heart cards I got from The Paper Source many years ago but never got around to doing anything with them. I just had to trim them a little and ended up using the envelope as a background as well. Voila!