My Floral Arrangments

I don't often sit down to do floral arrangements. This project started when I saw this simple inspiration arrangement while out shopping:

My Inspiration

I was able to find some large roses at the dollar store and had these vases for years, also from the dollar store.

My vases and roses

I also had these styrofoam balls and they fit into the  vases perfectly.  I used a knife to make the top of the foam level with the vase.  Depending on the arrangement, sometimes you have the foam a bit higher than the vase.

Materials Used

The next step was to secure the styrofoam to the vase using green duct tape.

Securing the styrofoam

I stripped most of the leaves off the artificial rose stem and glued them (with a glue gun) to the top of the foam to cover the base (completely). 

cover the base with leaves

Then I cut the rose off the stem with a wire cutter, leaving a few inches to be able to poke it through the styrofoam.  I put a bit of warm glue on the spot where I poked the rose through.  Here is the first vase completed!  I was happy with it.

first arrangement completed

How do you think it compares with the Inspiration arrangement?

The Inspiration Arrangement

The finished look

I had so much fun with this and I don't think this project  took me more than an hour!  It wasn't very messy either.  Using the glue gun is actually quite fun and it's so fast!

Creative Tuesdays - Thumbprints

It's time for Creative Tuesdays' Thumbprints theme today!

I hope you like my acrylic ACEO interpretation!  Here's looking at Spring and Summer!

Crocus

Last Wednesday the temperatures hit record highs for the season and I noticed the first signs of spring peeking out in my garden:

There was an interesting article in the newpaper yesterday about the Artists group fighting for re-sale rights.

  'In 2003, Charles Pachter painted a vibrant, poppy-red double image of a barn, as seen after the springtime thaw had turned the fields near his rural studio into sodden slicks of melted snow. It was called “Red Barn Reflected,” '  Here is that beautiful painting:

Anyway ' a CARFAC-proposed amendment to the Canadian Copyright Act that would give living artists a five per cent royalty on all sales of their work after its original sale' is under review by a government committee.

Sunday Sketches - Spring Flowers

Welcome to Sunday Sketches.

I did some spring flowers for this week (acrylic ACEO).

And I now have my very own Sunday Sketches mug, which arrived last week, it's so cute:

Whoever Blinks

Whoever blinks first loses....Go!

Hope you're having a happy Saturday! I went for a walk yesterday morning to meet my friend S at the local McDonald's. It was colder than we thought, and the weather was very unstable. It was sunny when I left the house, cloudy by the time I got to McDonald's then it started snowing heavily while we had our coffee. I was covered in the powdery white stuff by the time I got back home, thankful I had decided to wear my boots. Then it stopped snowing for awhile and then started again. By the afternoon it was clear and sunny again, you wouldn't know it had snowed!

L Skyped us briefly in the evening.  They are having friends visit from out of town this weekend and were about to have a big party at home.  Likely St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Well, I'm happy she was able to think of us in the middle of all that excitement!

And did you notice the beautiful full moon last night?  It was so bright!

Paint Party Friday - Spring Flowers

Welcome to PPF's one year Anniversary!

It's only fitting that I did a bunch of Spring Flowers (acrylic ACEO) to celebrate! It was a bit of a coincidence, it must have been in the back of my mind!  Actually, I had the flowers blooming on my dining table and notice how the tulips are almost spent?  Still beautiful, and all the more interesting I thought.

Flower Arrangement Inspiration

I've been inspired to create some simple floral arrangements based on something I saw in the stores recently. I found these pretty red roses at the dollar store and had these 3 vases for quite a few years also from the dollar store. Stay tuned and hopefully I can get this done pretty soon!

I took a dramatic tumble in my aerobics class at the gym yesterday.  Fortunately it looked a lot worse than it was.  I must've tripped and then lost my balance, landed on my bum with one hand helping to break the fall.   The nice ladies next to me were very warm and sympathetic but I was able to get up quickly and resume activities.

The March break spring holiday starts this weekend, for many with elementary and secondary school kids.  K will be doing a lot of tennis.