Tag: Flowers

Flowered Mirror

I love my flowered mirror!!!  It was hanging in the entryway of my last house, but in my new home it’s going to be over the sink in the guest bathroom.  I’ll pick some of my favourite colours from it for the towels, wash cloths, rug and other accessories.  Now watch, I’m gonna have a line up of people wanting to visit my bathroom!!!
It was very easy to make.  First I bought a plain unfinished framed mirror.  Or you could find an ugly old mirror from anywhere – and it doesn’t really even need a frame, you could just glue onto the edge of the mirror.
Next step was to glue Spanish Moss all over the frame – I just used my glue gun.  Sorry, I don’t have step-by-step pictures – I made this a few years ago – but the frame covered in moss even looked good!  (Just ignore the spot of wax from the glue gun on my moss.  I promise you don’t notice it on the mirror, but of course that would be the spot I took a picture of!)
Then I just started gluing my wild flowers on.
I did larger flower arrangements on the bottom of the frame to anchor the mirror.  Then I placed the rest of my larger flowers around the frame and used the smaller ones to fill in the gaps.
Taking pictures of mirrors is not easy, especially with the short person around!  After looking at this photo, I realized how dirty the mirror was.  So I cleaned it – but didn’t retake my pictures!
I think it’s so pretty!  I just love all the colours of the flowers together.  It would also look great done in a single colour, or a single type of flower in various colours – oh the possibilities!!!
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Twig Vase

Daisies are the best!!!  I’ve always loved them, so when I saw these cute daisies at Walmart, they literally jumped into my shopping cart!  I bought 3 of them at $1 each, but I think I want to go and get a few more, because they’re nice – they look real!  I want a bigger cluster in my vase.
Now the job was to find the perfect thing to put them in.
I wanted a natural looking vase to house my daisies.  So my mind started wandering to what I’ve seen around lately.  Since the snow melted, the backyard has been loaded with little twigs from the winds of autumn, winter and spring. I’ve had my girls gather them into piles, and they play “camping” in the yard with their “campfire”.
Anyway, I have a birthday coming up and I told Kat that I had got her a present that she could give me for my birthday, but first she had to help me make it.  She was all excited about this, and so was I, because it meant I could stay inside while she went out and brought me in some twigs!!!
Perfect!  Thanks Kat, now go and play while I play with the sticks!!!
There’s my $2 dollar store vase that will soon be covered in twigs.  I just broke the twigs to approximately the right height.  If they were thick twigs, I scored them with scissors first where I wanted the break to be, and then snapped them easily.
I used my hot glue gun to glue the thicker twigs on first – and I only burned my thumb twice (both times in the same spot of course!).
Then I filled in the gaps with the smaller twigs.  I kept going around the vase until all the glass was covered.
I saved a few skinny forked twigs to put between my daisy stems.  Then in went the daisies!  Now it just needed a ribbon tied around the twigs to finish it off – and help hold any loose twigs in place!  Went to my ribbon stash and decided on this sagey green coloured one.
And there we have it – didn’t Kat do a fabulous job on my birthday gift!!!
Ahh, beautiful daisies – they always make me smile!!!  As Meg Ryan said in “You’ve Got Mail”, “Daisies are the friendliest flower.  Don’t you think daisies are the friendliest flower?”
(And my family knows that when I pass away, I want a casket spray full of daisies – with eight red roses among them to represent my guy and my seven daughters!!! lol)
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