Our next Christmas décor ideas
are still from the IPBI demo. It’s time to decorate your foyer, or your
entrance…
This Christmas flower decoration will look grand on top of your cabinet, or your fireplace mantel, if you have one. A bit of branches will be needed, and it’s hard to find this kind of medium sized branches if you live in the city like me unless you chop it off the neighbor garden (not advisable!!). But this can be a good excuse for a picnic at the mountain… don’t forget to pick up some pinecones too while you’re there.
No, this is not a camping
fireplace, but 3 branches put together like one, and secure with ropes. The securing part might be the hardest part,
if your kids happened to be in scout ask their help! I myself was in scout long
long time ago and had forgotten with all the knot n …*sigh*…
Mrs. Yani, one of the designers
of this flower arrangement said, ‘make it as closely as possible like a deer’.
‘The original idea came from a deer that was walking around’, she continued.
Besides the branches we will also
need lots of shiny silver and white Christmas balls ornament, ‘ijuk’ rope to
tie the branches and no, those yummy looking red ones are not cranberries,
we’re in the tropics, remember…. These are actually palm fruit seeds, secure
them one by one with floral wire to be attached later. You must do it carefully
but quite fast, since the more often and longer
you touch, the more mushy they become (not firm anymore) and certainly
it would not attractive to be used as
accessories to attract the attention from the side of color.
And here’s the materials used
such as medium size of branches, aspidistra leaves, pinecones (the big one is
from Aussie, while the smaller ones are from local tree but I think it’s simply
because of the difference type of trees only) and roses of sexy red.
Mrs. Yuyu and Mrs. Yulianti were
performing their demo. They were helped by Mrs. Wiwit.
And this is the step by step tutorial:
First, cut some roses quite short
(about 10 – 15 cm long depending on how big you’d like to make) then arrange
them just like you’re going to make a round bouquet. Make two, one is in the
position of the head and the other is above the legs (of the deer – imagine!)
Then take some aspidistra leaves,
fold some of them by using ‘lidi’ or you can use staples. Then placed them on
the right and left side of the head. Do it once again but this time at the
position of the ‘tail’ and around it, and let 2-3 leaves unfolded, natural as
it is.
After that attach some ball
ornaments slightly below the head, at the abdomen, at the back and one ball as
a tail.
Finally, put some red palm seeds
at the neck in front and a few on the sidelines of roses and aspidistra leaves
to cover the empty space.
After adding those
baubles..Voila!!! here’s the arrangement look from the front side. Since this
arrangement itself is quite big, so make it as a focal point and do not add too
many ornaments near it.
From another point of view, just
look at those baubles!!!
That’s it for today. But don’t
worry, we still have more Christmas décor to be posted this year, so keep on
checking our blog!!!!
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