Girl's Room Floral Arrangment

I saw something similar to these in one of my favorite home decor stores, and LOVED them. I wasn't so in love with the price. That is always the catch!

Thrift Store to the rescue? Ya Baby!

I began with these old canisters that I bought for $1.00 for the whole set at a thrift store. I have been holding on to them for a while, waiting for the perfect project to use them with.Then I found these flowers on clearance at Wal-Mart, plus the paint and the flower foam half circles were at Wal-Mart as well.I spray painted the canisters and the foam balls pink.Cut the flower stems very short and poked them into the foam balls. The flowers need to be arranged pretty tight, then fluffed with your fingers. It is easier if you start from the center top and work your way out and down from there. Check out these beauties!

Here are the canisters, painted, the fronts are decoupaged and antiqued with scrapbook paper and my trusty ink pad. I left the sides pink. I like the way it all came together. Then I tied on some toole left over from a Halloween costume I had made for my girls a couple years ago. (Every little girl has to be a ballerina at some point, right? It has to be some kind of milestone, probably more for the mother than the child...)

Add the flower topiaries to the canisters, and BEAUTIFUL! They sit right on top of my girls' armour. I like these even better than the original ones I saw in the store. SO worth the time and I saved a BUNDLE!

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