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Monday, May 2, 2011

Paper Flowers

Yesterday was the Paper Flowers class at Los Poblanos.

We had 6 attendees and they were so enthusiastic and extremely talented ladies (!)

The packets for the class were filled with papers of all sorts and a bag of buttons and beads.

The first flowers we made were from old phone book pages. They are simple and, honestly, the paper is great to work with - newsprint. It is a great weight and rather non-threatening.... and the yellow pages make from some mighty-fine flower petals.

Here are some of those first ones that we made.....aren't they great? They are wrapped around real twigs to help them look more realistic.

Once the first set of flowers was done, I showed several other blossom ideas and construction.

Everyone was concentrating so hard on getting the blossoms "built"

.......... I hope they were having fun at the same time.

I think that the results (below) are representative of the creative minds at work and how they were able to take the information I gave them and run with it.... just beautiful.....

Aren't these lovely?! The assortment of flowers is so fun and the whimsical styles add so much to the charm of each bouquet.

I think they look pretty elegant against the black tablecover, too.

All in all, a great day.

Despite the chilly temperature, wind and drizzle going on outside, we added some sunshine to the world with our cheerful bouquets.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

May Day "Flower" class

My class this Sunday at Los Poblanos is making paper flowers.

We will make a bouquet from white, lavender and pink cardstock - cut and curled and wired, taped and collected together with ribbon and leaves ............

We will also make these lovelies, from pages in an old phone book. They are simply scallop-cut paper strips wound around the end of a branch and wrapped tight with wire. It is nice to add a bit of color on the inside of each "petal" so there is a subtle color to the blossom.

I think they look so realistic, don't you?

Helps to put them on the branch.....and not be too concerned about how "carefully" you twist the paper around. I hope to make a bunch and fill a vase for the center of the table.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

a tiny golden bird

Sweet nest, isn't it? If you look closely, though, it is not about the nest, but the tiny little golden bird perched on a silver ring tucked into the nest.....

....and here is a close-up - do you see it?

It was a surprise - a tiny HUGE surprise - from my friend, Greta, and her sweet mom, my new pal, Frieda......what a treat! I can hardly take it off my finger, it is so delightful. I feel like I have a little secret that I am carrying around with me.......

And, of course, I have to keep it "out of reach" from the cats:

Here's Miss Pearl sitting on the table guarding my eggs and all the other Easter stuff sitting there unattended.....somebody just might sneak in and grab something, you know....

...and there might be a tiny, golden bird around somewhere......

Thursday, April 14, 2011

a few more magical eggs

I have found the formula for the delicate, magical worlds that glisten inside eggs.

As a child, I loved peeking into that tiny world inside a sugar egg......and I am delighted to have created something that gives me that same feeling I had once upon a time.

Though these photos do not show that the eggs have the soft glimmer that the sugar eggs have, both inside and out, maybe you can see that there are some pretty cool things going on in those eggs!

Easter is almost upon us....hippity, hoppity, Happy Easter Day!