US meets UK

I have a confession, for almost a year I’ve been heavily addicted to the site One Pretty Thing.  I check it daily and have been saving DIY projects from it for a long time.  I just wanted to share some of my recently featured favorites with the hive.

If you like Mrs. Pineapple’s clay flowers (and you’d like to take it on yourself) check out this Martha tutorial:

I love, love, LOVE terrariums and succulents; these would make fantastic centerpieces.  Not to mention they’re the kind of centerpiece that you can take home and will last for a long while. Can’t you just imagine these surrounded by tiny votives?

These waxed flowers (from Martha) seem out of my league but the comments make it sound like a great project!

Can you tell how much I love succulents yet? As a former Arizonian I really can’t get enough of them, I even drove a poor baby Organ Pipe cactus all over the United States in my trunk because I couldn’t part with it!  Mr.D and I have debated about using succulents or not and we still haven’t decided (I can’t believe we’ve honestly be discussing these for 8 months). These are intended as favors, but I could easily see them places on a table with votives.  If you mixed up the potting height they’d also be great as stand alone centerpieces/favors (favorpieces?).

The Cherry Blossom Festival is about to kick off in DC.  If you’d like to bring the outdoors in to your wedding you can try these cherry blossom centerpieces from (who else?) Martha.

Who knows what Ikebana means? I didn’t until I checked out these flower arrangements.  We’ll be doing a take off of the curly willow/orchid arrangement but with delphiniums and curly willow (card tables etc).

Okay, I know this might feel like a DIY/Martha Overdose, but I had to share one more.  This one doesn’t contain flowers – they’re  luminaries from Martha. I honestly squealed when I saw these!

Ahhh, too much inspiration!  Anyone else on the DIY path for centerpieces? Where do you find your inspiration?

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