by freshlyfound | Feb 24, 2015 | flower craft, recycled, tutorial, wedding
The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies. James Montgomery The daisy’s for simplicity and unaffected air. Robert Burns I’d like to introduce you to freshly found paper daisies – a whole batch of those simple long lasting flowers that...
by freshlyfound | Oct 27, 2014 | flower craft, recycled, tutorial, wedding
This is the story of the chopstick origami lilies! I think chopsticks make much better flower stems that eating utensils! This is purely my personal belief because I battle to use them in any way that is significantly satiating to my hunger! Here we used these wooden...
by freshlyfound | May 8, 2013 | flower craft, flower projects, wedding
Today we are going to be making up a large batch of paper boutonnieres or buttonholes. It reminded me of some we made a while ago. We had 2 weddings with a similar colour theme, and used gentian violet to dye the paper. Gentian violet has a few medical and...
by freshlyfound | Feb 23, 2013 | flower craft, flower projects, South Africa, wedding
I’ve been working like crazy to list all the paper flowers in the online store before leaving for the Design Indaba Expo. The range of strelitzias are going in this morning – Hand painted, Natural Rooibos and red cabbage dyed, as well as a batch made...
by freshlyfound | Feb 5, 2013 | flower craft, flower projects, South Africa
The Agapanthus is another one of my favourite South African flowers that grow in my garden. The simple purplish blue funnel shaped flowers suspended by green stalks in a botanical pompom give me so much pleasure. Paper Agapanthus Flowers It’s been a delight to...
by freshlyfound | Jun 20, 2011 | flower craft, flower projects
We took a trip to the Midlands a few days ago. We often stop off at Zulu Lulu and this time we bought a smoke fired pot! I’ve admired these for ages, and am delighted to own one myself! I have filled them with paper flowers. Similar ones are for sale...
