Flower Arrangements for Your Dining Table
THINGS NEEDED
Flowers
Vase
Baby’s breath
Stem of leaves
Flower life extender
Fancy flower pot
Floral foam
Artificial flowers
Clippers
PROJECT TYPE
Floral
DIFFICULTY
Easy
Floral arranging can be a lot of fun with beautiful results. There’s nothing like having fresh flowers
to dress up your table, but if you don’t have time to redo your flower arrangement as they die off,
use artificial flowers. You can make beautiful arrangements that you can’t even tell aren’t real. Real
or artificial, flowers make people happy and where is a better place for happy people than sitting
around the dining room table.
1
Decide what kind of an arrangement you want to have. You can do a simple arrangement in a vase
or something more dramatic in a fancy pot or container. You can have fresh live flowers or go with the
artificial variety. You could even do both, have an artificial arrangement with some real flowers in it.
Once you know what you want you can go shopping for the supplies.
2
Buy your supplies. You can get fresh flowers at a florist or even at your local Wal-mart. They usually
have a package of life extender attached to the flowers. You can get a vase, pot or container at your
department stores too, but you will find a larger variety at a craft store. This is where you will want
to buy any artificial flowers also. They have everything and they look so much more real than the
flowers at the department stores. Pick out colors that complement each other and match your dining
decor and get a bunch of different greens.
3
Put your fresh flowers in a tall vase to measure and take them back out. If they are too tall you
can cut them. Put some water in your kitchen sink. Place the stem you’re going to cut under the
water and cut with clippers or scissors at an angle. Fill your vase half way with water, put in you
life extender and mix. Place your flowers back in the vase and put your taller flowers on the inside
working out as the flowers get smaller. Arrange the baby’s breath throughout. Put your leaf stems in
the back to show off your flowers. Now you have a simple fresh flower arrangement.
4
Drill pilot holes at the marks. (A pilot hole is slightly smaller than the diameter of the screw you intend
to use. Pilot holes are drilled to prevent wood from splitting.)
5
Mount the locking casters to the bottoms of the two front legs using a power screw driver. Mount the
free casters to the bottoms of the two back legs. Turn the furniture piece right side up. Be careful not
to tilt the furniture onto two of the casters when you turn it over as this can place side pressure and
weight on the casters that is not what the casters were designed to accept.
SOURCE
eHow
http://www.ehow.com/how_4473552_make-dining-table-floral-arrangement.html