Birthday Flowers in Transferware

Hello Everyone and Happy Wednesday!  

Tomorrow is my sweet friend's Birthday and I have a special gift for her.  We both like the same things so I knew when I found this awesome Transferware Tureen 

that she would love it too.  

And who doesn't love flowers?  

So I combined the two and came up with this!

The tureen is white with a pretty green pattern.  

I know it looks blue in some of the photos.

 The lid has a raised pattern on it that I adore.  

And, there are no chips in it at all.

So let's start this tutorial!  

Here's what you'll need:  Flowers (mine are from Costco), apples, floral foam, picks or skewers, ribbon, extra greenery if needed, 

   I put some wet floral foam in the bottom and taped it down.

I wanted to use apples because they always remind me of fall.  I put them on skewers and placed them in the bowl.

Now here comes the tricky part.  

I wanted to incorporate the lid also, since it is part of the gift.  I set it sideways on top of the handle and the apples and wired it tightly.

Don't worry, by the time we are done the wires won't show.  Promise!

I like to separate my flowers so that I know what I have to work with.  I usually start with the largest and work my way down.

The large gold spider Mums go in first.  

I like to work with threes for the larger impact flowers.

 Then the pretty red roses are added.  

I placed the large cattails in next and then started filling in with the smaller flowers.  The greenery will fill in any holes.  

So, I filled in all of the spaces and arranged a large bunch of what looks like wheat over the handle.  I made a bow with some sparkly ribbon and put it on top of the handle but I didn't like it.  It was too much.  

So I tied some raffia on with a maroon ribbon.  

Nope!  

Still don't like it.

I ended up just tying a simple ribbon around the wheat.  

I think it's perfect.

Very Fall!

I hope she likes it!  

By The Way, Today is my beautiful Mother's Birthday!  

She lives too far away to give these to but I sent her some!  

I Love You Mom!  

You are the BEST! 

Until Next Time,

Beaux R'eves,

XO Cindy 



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