May 31, 2010

Memorial Day Flowers

Every year I march in a Memorial Day Parade with C1 & C2. We have to decorate our wagon and as much as I like to think that I can come up with something unique and creative I have to admit that I was scouring the blogosphere for some ideas last week.

So what did I come up with? Well if you read the blog MADE (and if you don't you truly should start) you might have seen a tutorial on some lovely Wallflowers that she made.

So yesterday I read over her easy as pie tutorial to refresh my memory. I went to Target and bought three packets of red, white, and blue napkins. I sat down and in about ann hour and a half I whipped up nine of these beauties:


I taped them on our lovely parade float (aka our swagger wagon) and here is what you have:


It's pretty normal for me to bribe the kidlets in order to get them to be good. I tried so hard to get a good picture with the wagon and here is the best that we could do:


Well at least I tried.

Happy Memorial Day!


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4 comments:

Daphne said...

I love the flowers you made and think I may try them out myself. :) I'm following you now and hope you will check out my blog
http://murrayfamily213.blogspot.com/

Have a great evening!

Diane said...

OMGosh, I love your paper flowers. I remember making these with kleenex when I was a small girl. That was quite awhile ago :o)

I came here via Made By You Monday. Hope you can visit me sometimes over at Pittypat Paperie.

Jessa Irene (Holiday-Haven) said...

Love this picture, my kiddos are always too wiggly when I try for a group shot. You flowers are great, very pretty!

linda @ CraftaholicsAnonymous said...

Robin,
How fun and festive! Very pretty flowers. Thanks for joining the Patriotic Parade!
have a safe and happy 4th!
Linda