Beautiful DIY Flowers From Bloominous #Flowers #DIY

I love DIY projects. Recently my niece got married and we were talking flower arrangements and figuring out how we could make them our self. At that time all we had was pinterest. Now I have recently come across a great website that provides easy DIY floral arrangements kits for weddings and events. I know many brides turn to DIY to save costs, but the process of researching, purchasing, and arranging florals often end up causing more stress and dollars.This is what detered me and my niecefrom doing her flowers but now that I found this site the next wedding I help plan you bet Ill be bringing up this site.

Bloominous was launched in 2014 to give brides an alternative option for DIY wedding flowers. I think this is such a great idea and option. There are lots of advantages of using Bloominous for a wedding  or a event. Three of those reasons are:
 1. Cost Saving:
*With Bloominous, brides will be able to save anywhere from 30% to 50% off their original floral budget
*Each piece is priced without the typical 300% markup from wedding florists, e.g. $5 boutonnieres, $40 centerpieces, and $50 bouquets

2. Easy DIY:
*Most DIY floral services do not send ‘prepped’ flowers, but ours come cut-to-order, dethorned, and trimmed, so brides save time AND money
*Each kit comes with step-by-step photo instructions for easy assembling within 10 to 20 minutes per piece, as well as flower care products and design tips

3. Quality, Professional Design:
*All collections featuring specialty flowers are designed florist with 10+ years of experience in event and floral design
 *It’s not just the flowers—from trends to vases to favors, we design the whole look for your inspiration, in our offerings and blog.

 This 'florist-at-their-fingertips' experience is so great. Now we all can make those beautiful arrangements for less money and less stress.  Bloominous is making DIY fun, easy, and approachable for anyone who wants to try. Check it out at http://bloominous.com. If you know someone having a wedding or a event that would love to save money and make their own DIY flower arrangements then tell them about Bloominous. They will be glad you did and you will be glad you saved the day! check them out today!

Fun Friday Crafts- No carve Pumpkin Decorating

It's that time of year to decorate Pumpkins. I really hate cutting into the pumpkins and dealing with the mess and then a couple days later the pumpkins are beginning to wilt and rot. So we now decorate them without cutting them and I can use them for Halloween decor and Thanksgiving.

Supplies:
Pumpkins
paint, crayons, ribbon, duct tape, buttons, stickers,etc.
Hot glue gun
Modge Podge

Directions:
Give kids their pumpkins and set all the craft decor on a table or where ever and let them decorate. You will be surprised at what they come up with.

1. the crayons are a fun new way to decorate. you take and tape the crayons to stem or on something above pumpkin then get your blowdryer and blow the crayons until they start to melt all over the pumpkin. So Cool if you use red crayons it gives it a dripping blood look..

2. stickers, gems, ribbon and a hot glue gun and you can creative some pretty glammed up pumpkins.

3. chalkboard paint is fun too just spray pumpkin with the chalkboard paint then give kids chalk and let them have fun!

4. My girls love to take glue and make designs and polka dots then sprinkle or roll in glitter and then let dry so cute.

5. new thing is duct tape there are so many different designs of duct tape so you can get really creative and fun with it.

6. Modge podge is great get some tissue paper or ribbon and design patterns you like with them then paint modge podge over the paper or ribbon and let dry. it turns out adorable.

7. Easiest ever is the new Mustache fad. You can buy the fuzzy mustaches at Dollar tree and stick it to the pumpkin or print off a mustache stencil and paint it on the pumpkin. So fun!

Fun Friday crafts- DIY Chalkboard Mason Jar candle

Supplies:

1 Mason Jar
1 Baby Food Jar – yes, baby food. It’s a jar and super cute!
Painter’s Tape
Sharp knife
Black Chalkboard Spray Paint
Chalk
Baker’s Twine or other rustic twine
Candles

Directions:
1.Place a strip of the painter’s tape on the jars and draw a heart. Using your knife, cut around the heart and remove the excess tape, leaving the heart taped to the jar.

2.Take your jar and your spray paint to a well ventilated area (meaning outside) and spray the jar(s) evenly. Let the jars dry. It won’t take long. Once dry, take the sharp point of your knife and carefully remove the painter’s tape heart.

3.Once thoroughly dry, use the chalk to trace little dotted lines around the heart. Take the baker’s twine and wrap around the top part of the jar and you’re done!! Now you can place candles in the jars, or, an even better idea are those flameless candles that will last all night and be safe too!

Fun Friday craft- DIY Mason Jar Cookie Mix

Mason Jar Cookie Mix

For each jar, you'll need one of each of the items listed below

Mason Jar

Flour (2 c.)

Baking Soda (3/4 tsp.)

Sugar (1/2 c.)

Chocolate Chips (1 1/2 c.)

Brown Sugar (1/2 c.)

(Optional) Measuring spoon set

Ribbon

Fabric – two different colors to cover lid (we used tulle and cotton fabric that matched the wedding colors)

Recipe Tag

Rubber band

Cookie Recipe to Put Into Mason Jars:

2 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup brown sugar (packed)

1/2 cup granulated sugar

The tags shown in the images (below) can be made at home, and printed out. The tag reads:

Make sure you layer ingrediants one by one and dont mix them together! It makes them look so much prettier in layers! You can layer however I did flour, baking soda, chocolate chips, brown sugar, granualted sugar. 

Then put your lid on and fabric over lid then tie recipe and ribbon around fabric and lid. This makes greaqt gifts.

Fun Friday- DIY Homemade Sidewalk Paint

Side walk Paint

 Ingredients:
Flour
food coloring
corn starch
water
paint brush
containers for paint I used muffin tin

Directions:
1. in bowl combine 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup corn starch and about 2 cups water then mix well until its a paint consistancy.

2. pour into containers or muffin pan

3. add about 4 to 8 drops of food coloring to each container and mix for vibrant colored paint.

4. take out side and enjoy painting. Its all natural and safe for consumption so no worries if kids try to eat it lol. It is messy and may stain clothing so beware. But nice alternative to buying side walk chalk or paint!