Capturing Springtime

Flowers- Trees

You Don't Bring Me Flowers......

Not in the Bowl, anyway.

That Idea didnt work out so well. I thought if I could coat the flowers with decoupage I could preserve them in time, but they started to brown on the edges.

Back to the drawing board.

I want to do something besides decoupage paper pics, not that there is anything wrong with that. I found a bunch of calenders for 50 cents at the craft store and bought them just so I can clip the pictures for decoupage. ( Always thinking ahead!). I thought maybe silk flowers, but I dont want to coat them.

*SIGH*

Back to finding something else.

Im 'thinking' as I re-read this, maybe fabric. I can cut some flowers off the design?
Perhaps incorporate my polymer clay. I think I saw someone make flowers for a table design using polymers......

Hmmmmmm...Someone smell smoke?

Pm Bowls In Blue and Wire

Didnt take long, eh? Here is one of the Paper Mache Bowls I did. I painted this yesterday..I really like the blues esp. the inside. ( yes I mix my own colors).






I am going to attempt to add these "REAL" flowers to the bowl. I will try Decoupage medium first. These are beautiful fragant Rhondendrons from our yard. I will remove the Stamens and try to unfold the petals into the bowl.....X your Fingers.
These smaller pink flowers? We are not sure what they are. At first we thought they were honeysuckle but they look nothing like the Honey Suckle we have growing next to it. ( yes they are both Pink). I took these from my yard, roots and all when I moved from my house. They showed up in my yard suddenly ( they werent there when I moved in...Hmmmm? Strange) I wasnt going to let the banks destroy them..( long story).

I will post more pics when I am done with this experiment.