Themed Bouqets

Inspiration

I needed a bouquet and I didn't have time or the wherewithal to go buy one, so I looked at what I had, and made one.  It's become tradition now.

Materials, Processes, and Results

The  first was dog biscuit-shaped cookies on bamboo skewers, tied in paper with a ribbon to look like a bouquet.  I had the extra cookies because they hadn't been quite right for another project.  Unfortunately I don't have a picture of the bouquet or the Italian cookies I used, only a picture of some cracker-type cookies I used for the other project.

For the second, I cut a slit in some free candy papers and passed one twisted end of a wrapped cough drop through it.  I wired one to the top of a bamboo skewer.  I used some single serving packets of cold medications from the health clinic to create bunched "leaves" I wired to more skewers.  I trimmed the skewers to various lengths and used rubber bands to keep them loosely grouped.  I layered paper facial tissue inside a green satin "handkerchief" scarf I had, wrapped it up, and tied it with raffia I also had on hand.
 




  

I had packs of origami paper I'd barely touched and looked up various free origami clothing patterns online.  From left to right: a man's black trenchcoat, a yellow short-sleeved, white-collared dress shirt with black slacks taped below, a woman's French blue coat with a pale blue scarf, and a sky blue calico party dress with a royal blue handbag.  I used black-coated copper jewelry wire and jewelry pliers and nippers to create the miniature wire hangers.  I also wired three bamboo skewers together to create the "clothes rod".  I wrapped this in stiff grey tissue paper used to package clothes in gift boxes and tied it with two large iridescent glittery pipe cleaners.  All materials I'd had on hand.