Showing posts with label Giveaway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Giveaway. Show all posts

Monday, March 28, 2011

A Winner and Some Flowers

First things first. The winner for my first giveaway is:
Lucky #7:
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Congratulations Darcy! I will be emailing you shortly.
A very heartfelt thanks goes out to all of you lovely ladies for entering and to all my followers for following.
The second part is just a quick little post for you. I am doing the flowers for a friend’s wedding in May. You can see my centerpieces ideas here. I took a flower arranging class at The Connection Wholesale Florist & The Flower Market in Fort Worth, Texas last weekend to help me prepare. My hands were a little busy so I wasn’t able to take pictures and I don’t think it would be very helpful to do a tutorial without them so I will just share the results.
Here is the hand tied bouquet featuring green roses, wax flower for filler and a “collar” of bear grass and lemon leaf.
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I learned how to add the tied and buttoned look which is actually super easy. You just twist and wrap it back and forth and then use corsage pins stuck in the stems.

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I had the chance to make a boutonniere as well. (I can never spell that word right without spell check). The dark base leaf is called lemon leaf or salal and the pink accents again are wax flower which actually comes in several colors.

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And a corsage.
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And finally an arrangement. Sadly it got thrown across my car when somebody decided they didn’t care if I was in that lane, they were going to join me. So it is a little kerflumpled.

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Did you know that Design Master Floral Spray Paint exists? I didn’t. It come in all the colors of the rainbow and really opens up possibilities. The instructor demonstrated with one of my roses which is how I got the blue one.
The class was really great. It was good to get some hands on experience with instruction and gave me just the refresher I need to be confident going into this wedding. If anyone in the Dallas / Fort Worth area is looking for a floral design class they can learn more about this one here.

Bonus! I just found out that Cassie from Primitive & Proper highlighted Mrs. T. from her Piece of Work Wednesday link party last week. Check out the 62 other great projects linked up here.  

Where this post is partying:

http://www.thethriftyhome.com

Monday, March 21, 2011

My First Giveaway!

Tiffany from Making the World Cuter was nice enough to feature me this week in her Follow Along. I just wanted to drop a quick hello to all the new followers. I am so glad you are here! I am working on responding to all the nice comments and stopping by everyone's blogs so if I haven't gotten to you yet I should be in the next day or two.
With this wave of great new followers I have hit 35 40! Whoop! and I want to do a simple little giveaway to celebrate. I want to give to one of you this cake plate I made with vintage finds. It measures 7” high and 11” across. The plate part of it is actually an enamel coated metal.
image The lemon-y yellow will definitely bring some springtime fun into your decor.
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To enter this giveaway is simple.
1. Follow this blog.
2. Leave me a comment to let me know you want to win!
This giveaway is now closed. The winner will be announced soon!

P.S. I’ve recently made a Twitter account to go with my blog. You can find me under TheseNotions.