After putting together some DIY dried flower ornaments for a craft fair, I picked up some tricks and tips that could help you make your own. I talk about how to pick the flowers to use, how to put them into the ornament, and some of the ways I achieve my specific designs. I hope you enjoy getting a little winter taste of the flower farms abundance even during these cold winter days.
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I still like the multi color far more than the single colored bulbs. Beautiful though.
These would also be fabulous oil filled!
I wonder if you could put a larger fresh flower in and then pour in the silica stuff, then dump it back out when it was done drying…
There are special long craft tweezers available to make it easier to maneuver the flowers.
Hi Serina, have you tried letting the bigger flowers you want to use dry in the bulb. Hope this helps ❤️
So was it a good business idea? How many did you sell?? They look awesome
Oval ornaments for Easter. We have ceramic oval Easter balls that we hang in our interior doorways.
That Christmas tree in the back with the dried flowers is the prettiest tree ever, you should try gluing dried flowers on those small cone shaped trees that they have in craft shops or make cones out of poster board to sell for next season.
I think a skewer ( like you'd use for grilling food) would help with positioning the flowers
You remind me of Kristy McNichol from the 80’s. You might be able to use a skewer or chopstick to arrange the flowers in the ornament. Have you switched Teams? Team Flowers.
These are so great! I am going to look into growing straw flowers next year just so I can dry them!
I love your shirt!
Hi Serena & Ian, thanks so much for everything you share. It is wonderful and much appreciated. Especially from over here in frigid Qc! For the ornaments, I really struggle with the plastic…I totally get where you are coming from (business, $ etc.) all super valid, and these are not a one-time use product, but anything that puts more plastic into the environment fills me with dread. I am just starting out on my flower farm journey (small backyard scale for now) and I am really trying to focus on the goal of beautiful, profitable and as close to zero impact on the environment as possible. For example, my Xmas wreaths are 100% compostable (no metal, no plastic, no elastic). It's not easy, and you totally deserve to earn a decent living for your family. I am just wondering how this factors into your decisions regarding the farm, products etc?
Happy and safe holidays! 🙂
Love the dry flower ornaments, but Ohh… that tree!!!!!
Thanks for letting us know where you got empty balls, going to try this. I love that gorgeous tree for a video background. I'm visualizing my favorite color pallette of purples, pinks, blues and lime or chartreuse greens for a tree with larkspur, blue statice, lime zinnias or hydrangeas, etc., and even adding some of the flower balls with white flowers inside (or other special ones). So many cool ideas for the tree, thanks for the idea and tutorial!!
They look beautiful. They would be great for weddings too. For all those cricut craft lovers, adding the name and date of the couple would be extremely cute as a party favor.
Very beautiful I think i will try it next year. My local dollar tree carries empty balls. I think I would like to add babies breath
A bamboo skewer might help move things around inside.
These are so BEAUTIFUL!!
You need a long pair of tweezers to help your positioning in the larkspur.
Great idea. One thing I’d do is put a bow at top with a couple flowers by ribbon.
Wow this is great continuation video. Good job for being so creative. Merry Christmas!
I love the Dried flower christmas tree! So beautiful. I appreciate it more this time.
These are amazing! I really hope they take off as an income stream for you. Like others, I think there could be a market for year-round. You could do green/lime for St. Patrick's Day, Red/White/Blue for American Independence Day, orange and brown for Halloween or Thanksgiving… I wonder if you could even put together a "whole tree" kit for different size trees and sell dozens of them at a time. Just wait till some magazine or website finds these and decides to feature them, and you could have a waiting list!
(Can you tell I love to dream?) Anyway, YouTube has recommended your videos to me a couple of times, and as of today I'm a subscriber. 🙂
Really pretty, with lots of creative options. Could you please do a video on How You Dried The Flowers so that they retained their vibrant colors?
these would look lovely hung in a window year round!
You gotta check this out, so cute, Frozen ornaments. They might work with Resin instead for longevity…
Northlawn Flower Farm
Do you happen to have a link to the ornaments? Would love to try this next year.