Katy’s Daisies at The Seattle Wedding Show

Katy has a talent for designing charming elegant wedding flowers and is introducing a new idea for DIY Wedding Flowers. If you have family and friends that want to help with your wedding flowers, DIY Wedding flowers might be for you. If you’re in the Seattle area and would like help selecting and ordering flowers, getting  advice on designs and floral arranging tips, ask Katy about her DIY Wedding Flower Packages.

Visit Katy’s Daisies at the Seattle Wedding Show, January 16th and 17th at Booth 1431

Come to the Seattle Wedding show and stop by Katy’s Daisies, Booth 1431. See Katy’s fabulous new ideas for unique wedding flowers. Pick her brain about DIY Wedding Flowers and ask how you can create stylish arrangements. Perhaps all you need is help selecting and ordering flowers or maybe you’d like her to handle it all. She’s flexible, willing to help and very talented.

Put your name in the hat to win one of Katy’s fabulous floral designs and mention WeddingWire or CathysWraps to receive a complimentary CathysWraps vase to take home and enjoy.

Visit Katy’s Daisies at the Seattle Wedding Show, January 16th and 17th at Booth 1431

do it yourself wedding flowers for garden ceremonies

Laura and Shawn sent this sweet photo of their wedding ceremony. Florist, Frances Monroe of Floral Arts in Fayetteville, NC, provided the hydrangeas and her mother, Susan, put them together when they got to the garden. “We did very little decorating at the garden, because it was already so beautiful with the plants blooming there.”

To recreate this look: Follow the instructions for making a floral frog in my last post. Cut hydrangeas to approximately 4-6 inches and make a 1 inch slit in the stem to aid water absorbtion. Add greens and arrange.

Smaller hydrangeas work best. If you can’t find smaller stems, separate large stems into small bunches. Using extra stem pieces, support the smaller flowers by wrapping together with floral tape before inserting into foam.

Photo’s courtesy of Tina Maloch of ArtForYou.

How to make a floral frog to create simple bouquets

I love this old floral trick. Cut floral tape (any sticky tape will do) and adhere to lid of your container in a crisscross pattern. The flowers will stay put as you arrange your bouquet. Just add a decorative wrap and your done! Try it and send me a picture.
Cathy

Magnolia Holiday Open House

Katy’s Daisies celebrated their first Holiday Open House in Magnolia Village by inviting any and all to make holiday centerpieces. You can tell by the smiles. . . it was a delightful evening!

Katy and her daughter Elizabeth taught “Holiday Centerpieces 101″ turning fresh greens and red and white carnations into sweet little centerpieces.

How to Make Easy Centerpieces, Hostess Gifts and Party Favors for the Holidays

Are you looking for simple cost-conscious decorating idea’s for the Holidays?

Here are two fun frugal ideas to decorate your home for Christmas. Dress up a plant or tiny tree with a little pot and decorative wrap from CathysWraps. Add a coordinating tag and you have a super-easy hostess gift. Mix and match in REVERSIBLE Water Resistant Sleeves! This Red Kalanchoe and Ivy Topiary came from a local nursery and were simply re-potted into a Pot from CathysWraps. Choose from the Red & White Polka Dot Pattern or our original Floral Print and fold the sleeves together. Add a coordinating gift tag and nestle in the pot for a simple stylish Homemade Hostess Gift or Holiday Party Centerpieces. Order your CathysWraps from our Etsy Store HERE. Colors: Red, Green, Black & White, Soft Pink and Hydrangea Blue.

How to Be Entertaining on a budget.

Simple and Easy Holiday Decorations you Won’t Find at Micheal’s Stores, from CathysWraps LLC.

What You’ll NEED:
A 4 inch potted plant from your local nursery or grocery store.
One CathysWraps pot, one Decorative Sleeve and one gift tag. Available HERE at my Etsy Store.
The moss is optional.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Re-pot a 4 inch holiday plant or mini tree into CathysWraps Pot, just drop it in. Fold CathysWraps Decorative Sleeve together, add a gift tag and nestle in your 4 inch holiday plant. If you prefer fresh flowers, make a little Mussie Tussie Bouquet, tie off with a string or a rubber band, trim stems short and add water. Note: Our wraps are water resistant but it’s best to keep them dry.

What do you all think, would you give these as hostess gifts?

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Make a Simple Pumpkin Centerpiece or Hostess Gift

This sweet little Fall Centerpiece was super easy and inexpensive to make. I found the Black Pansies on sale at Fred Meyer for .99 cents and pumpkins for .28 cents a pound. Just cut, scoop and plant.

Before the pansy turns into a pumpkin, plant it in the yard to enjoy next Spring.

You could also get a large Cinderella Pumpkin, scoop out the seeds, add a block of saturated floral foam and arrange fresh flowers and greens. We made these centerpieces for the Katie McKay benefit luncheon and they were amazing. The greens were gathered from our yards so the only expensive were the flowers and the pumpkins. The best deals for fall flowers and pumpkins were found at Trader Joe’s.

How to hang wedding flowers from church pews

Maximize your bridal budget with wedding flowers that transform from wedding aisle décor to reception centerpieces. CathysWraps Vases and Doeys’ Church Pew Clips create dual purpose floral arrangements that can be repurposed as reception centerpieces.

Erin did, proving she is as smart as she is beautiful! She wanted practical cost effective wedding decorations so, we designed her wedding flowers to do double duty as wedding aisle decorations one minute and reception table centerpieces the next.

We sought advice from my local florist Katy Breen, owner of Katy’s Daisies in Seattle. Katy helped Erin select and order the flowers. The wedding was in a small town in Oregon, so I made fresh cuts to the stems and refrigerated them overnight before placing them in buckets of water and driving 4 hours to her parents home where it was up her aunts, cousins, mother and grandmother and I to make the flower arrangements. None of us have any floral experience and Erin took a great Leap of Faith letting in us. Thank you Erin!

The day before her wedding we had fun visiting with one another while making up the flower arrangements. Each one is just a bit different and each was made with love.

We refrigerated the floral arrangements overnight and on the day of the wedding, did the last minute assembly at the church, adding CathysWraps Decorative Wraps and Doey’s Church Pew Clips while my husband hung the flowers on the church pews.

Post Ceremony, we transferred the wedding aisle flowers to the reception and repurposed the wedding aisle décor as reception table centerpieces, decorating the bar area, the powder rooms, the entry way and the cake tables.

It was a Beautiful Day and a very classy wedding. I’ll post the recipe soon explaining how to recreate this just picked look for your wedding flowers or special event.

How to make a Gerbera Daisy Centerpiece.

What You’ll Need

3 to 5 gerbera daisies and leafs
Moss
A 3 inch block of Wet Floral Foam
Floral tape
A pencil
CathysWraps pot and decorative sleeve.  http://www.cathyswraps.com

Step 1: Saturate a block of wet floral foam, let it sink, don’t force it. Trim to fit pot.

Step 2. To help flowers absorb water, cut a 1 inch slit in the stem. Because gerbera stems are soft it’s best to make a hole in the foam first with a pencil and gently insert flower into opening.

Step 3. Fold CathysWraps sleeve & nestle pot into sleeve. Finish with moss.

Step 4. Tape leaf to trimmed stems with floral tape. Tuck into foam.

And voilà, you have a pretty DIY Gerbera Daisy Centerpiece. What do you think? If you could wish for other decorative wrap colors, what would you like? Was this helpful, why or why not?

P.S. You could also fill a CathyWraps pot with wheatgrass and gerbera daisies, or transplant a 4 inch gerbera plant into the pot. Add a coordinating gift tag and you have a unique gift or party favor.