Ever since I posted photos of the hot air balloon centerpieces I created for a wedding two years ago, people have asked me either to make it for their events. Since they were so difficult and time-consuming to make, I have respectfully declined all offers ...
Being as America is the land of the free, people love free stuff. So when they go to a party, they love party favors. Here is a flag centerpiece I did for an eHow tutorial that is made up of individual mason jars, and the individual jars and flowers can b ...
Growing up working in a Chinese restaurant, we served Cokes and other sodas that were in old fashioned bottles and came in wood crates. Who knew that many years later, those wood crates would be called "vintage," and I would be making floral arrangements ...
Succulents are the hot trend in floral arranging, and it's no wonder. They are not only gorgeous, the cuttings can be replanted when you're through with the arrangement. This was a holiday centerpiece I created for eHow. See the step-by-step slideshow tut ...
It's the Craft Attitude Holiday Blog Hop, and to kick things off, I'm throwing caution to the wind and trying something new. You know how I've used Craft Attitude printable film on a ton of projects so far. Well, today I'm using Craft Attitude, but I'm no ...
One of the biggest requests I get on my web show Style with a Smile is how to make the green topiaries that are in the back of my set. So by popular demand, here is the video on how to make them.
The event was a bacon-themed dinner for 65 people from Amy's Culinary Adventures. So what to do for the centerpieces? For the past bacon dinners, I had used piggy banks or flying pigs, but this time I wanted to get away from the porcine nature of the even ...
If you're a ribbon hoarder like me, you have rolls and rolls of ribbon stashed away in drawers or gathering dust up on shelves, all just begging for a purpose in life. Well, until they adorn a bright package or finish off a craft project, why not turn tho ...
This floral arrangement started with a really big vase. Really big. And it was glass, and you know how I don't like to show flower stems through the glass. So I inserted a smaller vase within the bigger one, and lined the interior with phalaenopsis orchi ...
