flower power
So. Silk flowers. FAKE flowers. The numero uno rule to never break... THE biggest home decor mistake you can ever make!!! I have always obeyed this rule faithfully and never even been tempted to put FAKE flowers in my house! EW! But I got an idea...I had seen these big, puffy, fake, PINK gerbera daisies at Urban Home. I liked the fact that instead of TRYING so hard to look real, they were just what they were. Cute. But in desperate need of improvement, and YELLING for me to help them! I went and bought some felt and buttons at Joanne's. And you know how I hate going there even more than the post office, so I really must have wanted to do this project. I cut out felt discs and played with them and the buttons until each one had a bit of pink and looked pretty good. Then I used pink thread to sew each button onto it's stack of felt.~ POOF! ~
And then my Energizer Bunny friend Lauren came over and glue-gunned those suckers onto the pink flowers so fast my eyes were still spinning as the glue gun cooled down! HEHEHEHEHE :D (she also proceeded to stick pins into my voodoo doll in all kinds of alarming places... but I shall not elaborate on that as this is a mostly family friendly blog)Look at cute they are! Now they're not fooling anyone - nor are they supposed to. They're 100% fake and proud of it! And fun, and happy, and cheerful :)
YIPPEEEEE!
love it - perfect silk flowers solution ever!! xx's
ReplyDeleteAw... Heather, Sabina and Bev... thank you for the fake flower love, hehe! And for pinning it Bev! :D
ReplyDeleteHi There :) I love these and am visiting from One Pretty Thing. I am following as well- good stuff here!
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about those big old fakies (and own the flowers you used in your tutorial actually- from when I started making flowered hairbows...) I don't love fake flowers but I appreciate them because tho I love to garden, I may never grow a green thumb. Fake flowers have come a long way I think...Yours are fantastically cute and I plan to make some to use on pens for my daughters teacher, pins as gifts and as hairbows they would be adorable!! Thank you so much for your ideas!!!
Hi Taci!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your great comments, and WELCOME! I agree - the fake ones have come a long way. Especially at Tai Pan Trading Co. (we don't have one here, but that place is amazing!) - they actually look totally real!
What great ideas to use them for pens, and pins, and hair bows (as a mom of all boys, I didn't think of that one! LOL!) - I'd love to see what you end up making!
So glad you're here -
Meg :)