Let's do a floral design in a pitcher - tutorial using the Cozy Place, quick method

Hello Sweet Friends.

Hope you had a good weekend and

accomplished something and had

 some fun too..............

I am ecstatic because we finally had

 a dry day, but were suppose to work

with a young couple, but they called

and couldn't come after all, 

 so guess what we did???

 We finally got our porch all cleaned

up.........can not tell you how happy

 I am about that!!

So now I am in the process of giving

the back porch a little face lift and today

 I decided it was a good day to make a 

floral arrangment for our table out there.

So decided to try and take some step

by step pics as I did it, and make a

tutorial to show you my easy Cozy

Place method.  lol

 I am doing this floral design for 

myself and if you have followed me

 long, you know I like to be able to

change things up at times, which

means changing flowers too, so I

don't always use floral foam and

all that.........this is one of those

times..............

So let's get started............

I warn you there are lots of pictures

cause figured it was the only way

to really show the way I do it and

since like the old saying goes " a

picture is worth a thousand words"

First you need to decide on a container

that you want to fill.................I already

had this blue lucite pitcher I am going

to be using.............

Decide the color of the flowers you want to use

 according to your decor.......My porch is gonna

 be lime green and that bright turquoise blue,  

so decided on white flowers with a touch of

 yellow, and then some green berry like stems,

and I had some hydrangeas from the old floral 

arrangement,  but wound up not using them

after all.  Typically you would use a large,

medium and small flowers.  Small flowers

are like fillers flowers, but these medium

ones worked well for everything.  I had 3

bushes of white flowers and 3 bushes of 
the green berry like ones.

Also if possible I usually by floral bushes

 as you usually get more bang for your

 buck...........so this tutorial will be using

faux floral bushes. 

Since my arrangement is going out on our

porch, I put these glass stones that you can 

buy at the dollar tree for $1 inside my 

container to give it some weight so it doesn't

 fall over if it is windy or get knocked over

 easily.......

You will need some wire cutters

Next take off all the paper tags. I usually do 

them all at once, then I don't have to mess

 with it later, but if you think you might have

 flowers left over that you would want to

 return...don't take the tags off till you start

 to actually use them.

Take your largest floral bush and spread

 it apart.

Now stick the whole bush in the pitcher,

try to keep the bush stem in the center

as much as possible.

Here is the top view....

Here is the side view,  doesn't look like

 much does it..............lol

We are going to be layering,  so you

will see...................

Now take the berry bushes and spread 

them apart.

This is with just one bush of berries.......

Use all 3 bushes.......sticking them 

strategically where they look even in the 

container, (in a triange shape).  Does

that make sense??

again putting the bush stem as close

 to center as possible.

Here is how it should look now..............

but wait we are not done yet!!

 Now we will start to add some 
filler flowers.....

Now take your white flower bush and cut 
all the stems off with your wire cutters.

Cut them as close to the base of the stem 
as possible.

This is what you should end up with.....
a pile of flowers and a lonely stem that
 can be thrown away..........lol

Now see the gap or hole right in the middle 
of the picture.
Take a flower stem and just stick it in there, 
you want it to go in a ways so that it doesn't
 fall out, but not so much that it looks 
smushed into the rest of your flowers.

Just keep adding flowers were you see
 a gap, turning your container as you go
 and keep adding flowers until you have
only 4-5 stems left.

It should now looks like this.......
Pretty Full,  huh!!

Take those 4-5 stems and bend them gently. 
That is the nice thing about silk flowers is 
you can kind of bend them and make them
go where you want them, to some degree.
So that means you can twist or tweak them
if they maybe aren't facing the way you
would like them to.................

Now take the bent flower stems and tuck 
them in along the bottom edge of your 
arrangement in the front and back.

 and now you have an easy
 fresh looking summer arrangement for
 any table you would like to put it on.

This is the front!

This is the Back!

Sometimes a single flower may fall

out but you just tuck it back in again.

Hope if you have never tried to do a floral

 this will inspire you to give it a try........that

 is how I learned just getting flowers and 

trying till I got it the way I wanted it......

That is another great thing about faux

flowers you can arrange them then pull

them apart and arrange them again

till you like the finished product.

Remember practic makes perfect!!  lol

Have a great week.

Hugs and Blessings,
Nellie

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