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September 21, 2020

Fall Centerpiece with a Few “Out of Season” Faux Flowers

Fall Centerpiece with a Few “Out of Season” Faux Flowers

One yellow hydrangea, a bunch of tulips, a handful of roses…

A few sunflowers…

A few random flowers…

And magically

I have the perfect bouquet for my fall centerpiece.

Normally I wouldn’t think of using tulips or a yellow hydrangea for fall decor but a few weeks ago I was sitting on my bedroom floor (way past midnight) pulling out every single yellow flower I could find and I couldn’t resist.

So I figured why not use them to decorate for fall.

I had no idea why I was even drawn to all these flowers in the first place but once I was done putting them together I realized something.

My centerpiece reminded me of the sun!

So right there I knew exactly why I went for all those yellow flowers.

My daughter’s new favorite movie is the bee movie. (Such a cute movie!) That movie has shades of yellow in practically every scene. The bees, the honey, Vanessa’s dress in the court…

She wants to watch it almost EVERY DAY, and far be it for me and my husband to say no to a little resting/me peacefully making dinner time.

So we give in.

And then…

We make use of the time however we can, we rest, we do chores/dinner, I end up with that song “here comes the sun” in my head all day long and then I end up with a beautiful fall centerpiece that I’m about to share with you right now.

Ok guys here we go…

Fall Centerpiece with a Few “Out of Season” Faux Flowers

Fall Centerpiece with a Few “Out of Season” Faux Flowers - The Semi Organized Ant

First, I started with an old large mason jar

You can find the same size jar here but I found mine at my local dollar store for less than five dollars so you may want to check there first if you have one near by 😉

I wrapped a white ribbon around the middle part of the jar

Then I took my large hydrangea (from Michaels, also used here) along with another yellow flower and dropped them in on opposite sides.

Next…

I dropped three flowers here…

And one bunch of tulips behind those three flowers (from Dollar Tree, also used here)

I may have cried a bit when I photographed those tulips

So pretty!

Ok next…

This is where I started to scatter in the rest of my sunflowers (that I also used here and here) as well as a few roses.

I moved the flowers around where ever it was needed to bring everything together.

and that’s it!

all done with my new fall centerpiece

I hope you enjoyed this fall centerpiece with a few “out of season” faux flowers.

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October 17, 2019

Combining Dollar Tree Flowers with Items I Already Have for the Perfect Fall Centerpiece

Combining Dollar Tree Flowers with Items I Already Have for the Perfect Fall Centerpiece

Can I let you in on a little secret?

I’m kind of bored of pumpkins for fall decorating.

Ok, before you throw rotten apples at me let me explain.

I know that pumpkins are perfect for fall decor, I actually have a few in my kitchen right now as I’m writing this. But, I’ve noticed something in the last few years.

After just a week or two I don’t enjoy them as much as I did when I first put them out.

So I took a trip to the Dollar Tree and found a few faux flowers…

After picking out my faux flowers, a few extra supplies from my home, and some brainstorming I came up with this…

The perfect fall centerpiece.

Here we go…

Combining Dollar Tree Flowers with Items I Already Have for the Perfect Fall Centerpiece

HERE’S WHAT I USED:

Two Bunches of Sunflowers

Two Bunches of Leaves

Two Bunches of Hydrangeas

(All of these flowers came from the Dollar Tree)

Stick to two different types of flowers. Both of similar sizes like I have with the hydrangeas and sunflowers. Then grab some leaves or anything that can work as a filler around your flowers.

Ribbon (also from the Dollar Tree)

A Clear Vase

A Few More Faux Flowers (Most of these are from my summer mason jar centerpieces)

Most of these flowers were purchased over the summer for my summer centerpiece post. I loved these flowers so much that I honestly didn’t want to put them away. Thankfully they blended in perfectly with this centerpiece.

Tape, Scissors and 4 Paper Clips

Ok now, it’s time to go get all your supplies. Go ahead, I’ll be waiting here … I don’t want to build this centerpiece without you.

Back already? Yay! Let’s keep moving along.

STEP 1

Grab one bunch of each bunch of flowers and cut them down as you see below.

You can use wire cutters here if you’d like but, I just bend and bend until the wire breaks off. Easy peasy.

STEP 2

Take your ribbon and wrap it around your vase

Secure the ribbon on both sides with a paper clip

Step 3

Grab your scissors and cut the ribbon

STEP 4

Repeat this again along the other side to create four vertical lines all around the vase

STEP 5

Measure your vase with another strand of ribbon

STEP 6

Cut the ribbon then measure out a second piece of ribbon the same size.

STEP 7

Remove the two longer pieces of ribbon that we secured earlier for now.

Wrap the shorter pieces around the vase and secure each piece with a small piece of tape.

STEP 8

Grab the two longer pieces of string you first cut and secure them to the vase again the way we did earlier with the paper clips

Make sure you wrap one of the long ribbons over the pieces of tape so they are completely covered

This is optional but I also taped the two long pieces of ribbon under the vase just to make sure they stay in place

Now for the fun part. The flowers!

STEP 9

Drop the three longest bunches of flowers and leaves into your vase (the bunches that we didn’t cut)

STEP 10

Grab all the sunflowers and hydrangeas that we cut and drop them in. Keep your leaves off to the side for now.

Notice how I’m keeping all the sunflowers together on one side and the hydrangeas on the other side. Stick with me, it’s all going to start coming together now

(I should mention that when I first started working with my flowers I had a really difficult time bringing them together. So I asked google for some help. My search took me to this website by Martha Stewart where I found oh so many good tips. (Always nice to give credit where credit is due)

STEP 11

Grab the rest of your flowers and use them to fill in any gaps