On Sunday, I received a truly gorgeous bouquet, made upon special order, from Little Flower Hut. It had roses, cotton and hydrangea. I’d wanted peonies but was told they aren’t in season. Still, it’s one very pretty bunch of flowers, no? I don’t like letting a good bouquet go to waste so I’m going to share with you 5 things I did with this bouquet to maximize the joy that it was so evidently sparking, and also to, perhaps, have it last a little longer.
Got a bouquet? First thing you do is to take a gazillion photos of/with it:
And once I noticed how pretty some of the small accompanying flowers were even though they were playing second fiddle to the roses and all, I asked my sis to make resin accessories with them:
As for the cotton, which by now you know does not come from sheep (hehe couldn’t resist!), I took them out of the bouquet and saw what the florist did with floral stem wires and satay sticks. Interesting. Clearly, you learn a lot about bouquets by deconstructing one. And… using the craft paper that the bouquet came with, I made my own bouquet of cotton:
I could gift it away… but I’m keeping it to use as a prop in my photos
As for the hydrangeas, I put them in a vase for our living room. They’re certainly pretty enough to be on their own…
And I also hung these and some roses upside-down to dry, so I can keep them as dried flowers:
But what I’ve been enjoying the most is putting 6 of the 15 roses (15 roses means “I’m Sorry” though I don’t know why. Hahahaa!) into this wall-mounted flower pot. For the base, I used the foam that the florist from Little Flower Hut had used for the bouquet. Trimmed some of the rose stems to ensure the back row of roses is a little taller…

Yes, I have Hello Kitty mirrors at home. 2 of them in fact.
This certainly makes my bathroom prettier. Also… now I can say the whole house is full of the scent of roses.
The last thing I want to do is to keep a bouquet as it is, let the flowers wilt, and then throw the bouquet out whole. That’s such as horrible waste of beautiful blooms and packaging material. I’m going to make pressed flowers next.
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