Wedding Blog

The last of my DIYs from this last trip to KC: Flower girl baskets.

Materials:
4 wicker baskets from Michaels: $1.99 apiece, ~ $8.00 total
spray paint primer from Ace Hardware: $3.00
ivory spray paint from Ace Hardware: $3.00
1 bunch of flowers from Michaels: $4.99 on clearance for $1.00
1 spool of ribbon from Michaels: about $2.50, I think?
Total price: $17.50, or just over $4.00 per basket

I didn’t take any pictures of myself priming and spray painting the baskets, but I’m sure you all know what that looks like (the only notable thing is that since i neglected to bring any of my grody work clothes to KC, I ended up wearing a pair of Mr. Blueberry’s boxers and a XL blood drive t-shirt to paint in). Hmm, maybe that’s why I didn’t take any pictures! lol

What I did was remove sprigs from the bunch of flowers (since they’re silk, the sprigs just pop off). I bound two together with scraps of ivory ribbon left over from another project:

…then glued them into place inside each ‘handle side’ of each basket:

Then, because I’m still a bowmaking idiot (and I tried! I really did!), I used ribbon to tie two shoelace-style bows, stacked right on top of each other, on each side of the basket handle:

Finished products!

Total time? 20 minutes to prime and paint, dry time, then maybe 45 minutes to wrap, glue, and ‘bow’.