I went to Hobby Lobby to buy one knob and left with my knob and a ton of fake flowers. Hobby Lobby has the best flowers. I especially love their paper flowers, which don’t look real, but also don’t look like they are supposed to be real.
The best part about the flowers was the price! Each sprig was 80¢ on clearance.
I scooped up all of the clearance flowers to make an arrangement for our family room. I wanted to use the vase that we used as our unity candle for our wedding. It’s been sitting in our guest room with the half-burned floating candle collecting dust. Instead of filling the vase with the glass marbles that often accompany floral arrangements, I decided to use corks. We got married at a winery, so it made sense to use corks with the vase for that reason. Plus, I have so many corks! So, corks were both creative and cost effective!
I tried out my plan before cutting any of the flowers down.
Once I decided that I liked the cork and the flowers in the vase, I cut down the stems to fit.
Then, I started to put everything together in the vase. This was easier said than done because the corks didn’t really want to fall nicely in line. First I tried stacking them so everything was in a vertical line. Five tries later… I gave up on this method.
I opted to stick the flowers in first, then just toss all of the corks in and let them naturally fall into place. It seemed like the only other method to try, so I just did it over and over again under they fell a way that I liked.
Here’s what I came up with:
This picture took forever to take because someone kept getting in the way….
This was after he stole a cork and ran away with it, forcing me to chase him under our kitchen table. The joys of having a mischievous dog. Thanks, Rem.
Anyway… I love how this turned out and that it is secretly sentimental. If you look close you can see the inscription from our wedding. You can also see little specs of the green stem.
For now, the arrangement is living next to our television. I want to jazz up this space a little bit so it is less black.
We’ll see if it drives Brian nuts having a few sprigs in front of the TV.
If you see any clearance sprigs at your local HL, pick ’em up! They add such a nice pop of color and a fresh look to a room.