Silk Flowers As a Fire Extinguisher!

Looking for a way to protect your home AND make your kitchen look more beautiful at the same time? Then you might want to give these a try! The ingenious goodies have magnets in the stem so you can attach them to your refrigerator or other metal surface or you can bend the stems and hang them from someplace handy. Then, if an oil or grease fire breaks out on your stove, you pop the flowers in and they form a cover over the oil/grease thereby smothering the fire.

Probably much more effective at stopping fires tan normal silk flowers. You can find these fantastic fire fighting flowers from the Japan Trend Shop!

Altering Silk Flowers

Scrap Time, an Internet video show specifically for the scrap book community, shows you how to Alter Silk Flowers in Episode 151.

Looking for suitable silk flowers? Try these on for size...

Make Your Own Flower Pens

Want to make flower pens for you wedding or just for a splash of color? The folks at the the Wedding Social Network have just the tip for you:

To make a flower pen, remove one of the blooms of the silk flowers (leave a bit of stem for you to wrap, and the leaves if you like as well), and hold it at the top of the pen. Then, take your green floral tape and wrap it tightly starting at the base of the bloom all the way down the length of the pen. You can stop once you get to the bottom, although some people chose to wrap the pen going back up as well to really make it look like a flower stem. The bloom should then be attached to the top of the pen. If the bloom isn’t very secure, then you will need to use the hot glue gun. Add some hot glue around the base of the bloom attaching it to the pen. If you’re using leaves, they can be pressed into the hot glue as well to help camouflage the glue.

There are lots of different colors and kinds of flower pens that you can make to fit any wedding color combination. From silk Gerber daisies to sunflowers and even roses, you can create some beautiful pen bouquets to place at your tables for guests to admire and take.

Using Silk Flowers to Embellish Cards and Gifts

From the Seattle Press Intelligencer:

Silk flowers are ... easy to attach to everything from scrapbook pages to greeting cards. Whether you buy them at the store or pluck them from a floral arrangement, you can get double duty from them with your camera. Take photos of silk blooms and cut them out for beautiful floral embellishments. Silk flowers that are a light color can also be altered with a few swipes of colored chalk or brushstrokes of watercolor paint.

Here are some flower links:

• Silk Flower Stems
• Silk Flower Cuttings

Dressing up Ring Pillows with Silk Flowers

The Bash Blog talks about ring pillows and how silk flowers can dress them up, if done right. With a little imagingation, you too can come up with some wonderful looking ring pillows for your wedding without spending a fortune!

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