| Surprise Centerpiece for the Bride and Groom |
From "DIY Crafts"
episode DIC-129 |
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"America's Flower Man," Dale Rohman of Beyond Concepts, explains how to make a funny wedding centerpiece out of cabbage and other vegetables. Materials:
Head of cabbage
Bottle of wine or champagne
Carrots
Black olives
Green and red peppers
Sliced onions
Carrot
Straight pins
Corsage pins
Toothpicks
Flowers
Pipe cleaners
Bridal veil
Sharp knife
Grass-type packing material
Red spray paint
Floral wire
Black paint
Piece of lace or old lace curtain
Ribbon
Stapler
Tulle
Pearls
Baby's breath
- Cut an X with a sharp knife near the base of the cabbage but not through the stem. Cut away a little of the cabbage around the X to make an indentation, and push the cabbage down onto the top of a wine or champagne bottle at the indentation (figure A).
- Spray-paint grassy-looking packing material with red paint. Place it on top of the cabbage, and hold it in place by pushing short pieces of floral wire through the packing material into the cabbage (figure B). This represents hair.
- Make the ears by cutting wedges of green pepper and placing them on the sides of the cabbage. Hold them in place with toothpicks pushed into the cabbage. Eyes start with slices of white onion held to the cabbage with straight pins. Then place a black olive in the center of each sliced onion for pupils. Hold them in place with straight pins. The nose is a carrot. Create the lips by slicing off the bottom of a red pepper and securing in place with two corsage pins with pearl heads (for teeth). Eyelashes are made by painting toothpicks black and poking four of them into the cabbage above the onion slices (figure C).
- Make arms by twisting four pipe cleaners together. Wrap them around the neck of the bottle, and twist. Bend pipe cleaners to form the arms.
- Make a dress from a piece of lace or old curtain, gathering it between your fingers and stapling the gathers about one-third of the way from one end. Wrap the gathered lace around the neck of the bottle, and tie with a ribbon, letting the upper third of the lace overlap the dress like a loose collar (figure D).
- Slit the lace overlap near one arm, and wrap the back piece around the pipe cleaners to make a sleeve around the arm (figure E). Repeat on the other side.
- Add a veil by tying a piece of tulle with a ribbon and placing it on the head, securing it to the cabbage with floral wire. Tuck a few sprigs of baby's breath into the veil. If you like, add pearls for earrings as well as a necklace, a floral bouquet, etc.
GUESTS :
Dale Rohman
7536 Forsyth Blvd.
Suite 117
St. Louis, MO 63105
Phone: 314-725-2522
Tollfree Phone: 800-776-3569
Fax: 314-725-1279
Email: info@americasflowerman.com
Website: www.americasflowerman.com
Beyond Concepts, Inc.
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