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I’m totally lazy so I’m just going to literally copy and paste what I just posted on crafster.org. also, i want ice cream…so I’m going to make this quick.

I made some corsages tonight for Kelly and I to wear tomorrow night at Revenge of the Prom.

Fancy.

We have totally awesome dresses from our rad 80′s new years party and thought we could get a 2nd use out of them and get another chance to wear some big hair and side ponytails. 

I ventured to Hobby Lobby and got a bunch of supplies (flower stems happened to be on sale for 50% off!)….roses, beads, black tulle with glitter, elastic, hot glue gun, floral shears and some floral tape.

Here’s what I ended up with after a half hour of tinkering:

craappy camera. seriously, i swear, i'm getting a point-and-shoot someday...

I figured out where I wanted the roses to set and I taped them with floral tape (which, by the way, is kind of rough to use if you’ve never used it before–it sticks to itself, but don’t pull too hard or it’s going to break!).  Then I cut the bottoms off with the shears and wrapped the wire parts with floral tape so they wouldn’t poke me. I bent the stem I created by taping in half and moved the flowers around a bit to figure out how they would look on my wrist.  Then I glued some leaves in (there weren’t any leaves that close to the flower, so I pulled them off and placed them).  I took some of the black tulle and kind of balled it up and glued that to the bottom of the whole thing.  Then I took a strip of elastic (that I measured around my wrist), sewed it together so it was secure, and sewed it to the bottom of the corsage-in-the-works.  THEN I glued it down to make sure it would stay.

Exciting.  Not exactly rocket science, but it was fun to pick up something I don’t normally do. I’m usually on the knitting board or lurking on the cooking board.

Also, I plan to post some action shots of the corsages at the event after it happens. I’m EXCITED!

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