My favorite holiday decorations are most certainly Valentine's Day ones! The pink, red and white during the dreary winter months always cheers me up! But, I don't have very many in my home. I've decided to change that this year :) I love topiaries and decided to make a couple for my mantle. I headed to the local Dollar Tree and found all the supplies I needed! The little pots are actually Easter "trees" that I pulled the tree part out of, stripped them down to the dowel and then covered the dowel with sparkly red ribbon using my glue gun. Then, using a styrofoam ball, I hot glued the dowel into the bottom of the ball. The "roses" are actually SOAP petals!! I didn't realize that until I brought them home, but they appear to be paper flowers that were dipped in rose scented glycerin (soap wax). PERFECT! I hot glued each bud to the ball. I thought I had enough roses to do two topiaries, but alas, 3 boxes of roses only filled one topiary! :( I'll have to go tomorrow and get some more! I finally hot glued a valentine ribbon around the pot and tied a bow. I am so happy with the way this turned out! It was a total of $4 in materials for the one topiary- not bad!
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Love it Justine!
Have you considered putting them up on Ebay?
I made one in all pale pink & it looks so good in one solid color! I made mine into a kissing ball for my daughters bathroom! Smells good & looks awesome! My daughter loved it! But it took me 4 boxes of roses to cover 1 styrofoam ball & at $1 a box @ Dollar Tree - $4 - I saw similar ones at TJ Maxx $7.99-$12.99 so I guess it's worth it! I'm going to make a white one & leave a spot w out roses & hot glue it to a Crystal candle stick holder - my version of an "upscale" topiary! I placed the pink one I made on the candlestick & it looked awesome soo I'm making my white one now!!
I figured out why I used so many boxes - I put mine way closer together so it would have more of a rose bud look then an open rose - I didn't think I had much of a choice because first few the middle fell out so to keep the middles in the roses you kinda have to glue them close together or glue the centers in which I didn't want to do cause then I would be able to adjust them.
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