I just recently went to my 10 year high school reunion in Miami (CRAZY!).
Since I don't actually have the ability to say "no" when asked by a friend to help out with something, I was suckered into doing all of the decorations. (Ok, I wasn't suckered into it...I may have offered my services. Yes, I'm just that nice of a person.)
Because there wasn't a huge budget for the reunion, I had to figure out how to make the room look good, while spending close to nothing. I decided to re-use all of the glasses and jars that were used for the floral arrangements for my sister's wedding, and instead of real flowers I made paper flowers out of newspaper. I think it was fairly successful, minus being up all night making 100 flowers the night before the reunion. Oh the things I do to myself...
Materials:
Newspaper
Scissors
Tape
Wire
Floral Tape
First, cut the newspaper into petal shapes. Then wrap the wires with floral tape, this will help the newspaper and tape to stay attached to the wire.
Take each paper petal and wrap the bottom around the wire. With a small piece of tape, tape the petal down.
The flowers look great even with as little as 3 petals...
{they definitely look better in a cluster!}
{all set up!}
I'm sure the room would have looked a lot better if I had time to make more flowers...oh well, next time!
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