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.
