(Part 2) Best floral arranging supplies according to redditors

I was late to yesterday's thread (West coast!) so I'm just going to check in here again today!

I'm putting together an Effie Trinket original Halloween costume...
I am not good at creating outfits! I either go way too matchy matchy and don't realize that you can add in other colors, or I'm afraid of being too matchy matchy and it ends up all over the place. Here's my plan, I'd love feedback on the whole outfit, how the dress will look, any extra tips?!

This dress with these glued on, not all over... thinking in a bunch on top left then spread out across torso, with more sporadic placement over the skirt.


This


These shoes or possibly these shoes but I feel they need an added something... ideas?! (I'd wear heels but I'll be spending halloween with my toddler at a pumpkin patch!)


These gloves


Umbrella?!


These arranged in the wig as some sort of hair piece although if anyone knows of a better butterfly head piece option...

Thanks!

To make the roses I used McGill paper punches specifically this one Rose. Just follow the instructions, I made about 80 different flowers for my bouquet and 30-40 flowers for each bridesmaids bouquet. You have to punch all the itty bitty petals out then shape each one, which is the most painstaking part but if you get some friends to help it goes by a lot faster. Also, the best glue is Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive for gluing the paper. Then, you just hot glue each flower to a floral stem. You'll cut each wire down to about 3-4 inches. Then you get a floral foam ball and cut about 1/3 off the bottom, then just start sticking the flowers in with alternating colors. You'll want to hot glue each stem after you stick it in to make sure it doesn't come out. The little sparkling metal things are actually hair pins I got from a $1 store and I just stuck those in and hot glued them down, same with the pearls(those were from hobby lobby in the floral section). I then cut a small hole in the bottom and hot glued a dowel rod to the base and add something like this bouquet holder. I glued pearl string to the base, wrapped the rod in ribbon and glued some jewels to the handle. I also glued a 2013 penny to the bottom of the handle for good luck (couldn't put it in my shoe). Anyway, I pretty much got everything from hobby lobby and I might post a tutorial with pictures later if I have time!

Hmm, can you get a large cable wrap or cord concealer and paint it the same color as the wall? Wrap it in rope, floral tape, or faux foliage - you could even hang foliage from it (one | two | three). Put shelving in front of it. Is that your bed post in the lower left corner? You could hang a canopy that conceals it or add drapes on either side of the window.

Gorgeous! As a gardener, first thing I thought of was how fun it would be to use a living moss in the base.

You can buy oasis blocks for arch arrangements (garlands: https://www.amazon.com/Oasis-Floral-Foam-Netted-Garland/dp/B0077BPERY singles: http://www.modernwedding.com.au/wedding-diy-build-a-floral-wedding-arch/), but I still wouldn't recommend hanging them up more than a few hours in advance. You can put the bouquets in a vase just like floral arrangements.

Nice. Personally, I detest bidding games with a passion that burns like a thousand suns... but I can respect a well-crafted one, and it looks like you have the basis for one.

For your mana, you might consider using acrylic table scatter. You can't include that in a TGC-produced game, of course, but they're really satisfying to use at the table during testing. I use them all the time when prototyping games. They come in lots of colors and are relatively cheap and satisfying game component, and I think they'd especially lend themselves to your theme of Atlantis mana.

If you just want clusters of flowers, buy a couple of these http://www.amazon.com/Oasis%C2%AE-Floracage%C2%AE-Holder-with-Maxlife/dp/B00K5SK5F2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1457622673&sr=8-2&keywords=Oasis+cage

Soak them in water before you are ready to add flowers, and then just create your arrangement by sticking the stems directly into the Oasis. Im sure there are videos on YouTube of how to do it. Try the flower school channel.

Then just get some heavy string (bind wire is what florists use) and secure it to the arch.

Couple tips. I would use a decent amount of greenery. Where I live salal grows everywhere, and there is a decent amount of eucalyptus and sword fern around, so I would just go cut that somewhere.

Also if you want to name the arrangements the night before just make sure you store it someplace cool like a basement or garage. DO NOT put it in the fridge. There is not enough moisture in there and it could ruin your flowers. Just make sure the cage is thoroughly soaked and they will be fine.

If you have any questions id be happy to help.

This stuff. Holds its shape well and is plenty long enough. Depending on how long you want the web, take two stems or fold one in half to leave a small open loop on one end to fit around the wrist peg, and then twist and weave it together to make it look like a web line.

https://www.amazon.com/DECORA-Gauge-White-Floral-Package/dp/B010NLWZNA/ref=sr_1_9?keywords=White+Fabric+wire&qid=1567293625&s=gateway&sr=8-9

https://www.amazon.ca/Quality-Growers-QG1390-Variety-108-5/dp/B005D7BCUM/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=fake+moss&qid=1554433544&s=gateway&sr=8-3

get something like that then go out and pick up random bits from trees: twigs, acorns, maple seeds stuff like that. A couple rocks. Small glass bowl and some dirt. Just sit there with everything and try and get creative. Use hot glue even. It won't be a terrarium like this. But it will be cool

I use small ceramic dishes. Impossible for worms to escape from. They're typically less than $3 at a pet store. The URL is just for reference.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VZHKCU0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_R3ktxbP8TRZFM

It’s a nylon mesh sewn, and it’s usually sewn into the hem of a lightweight fabric like this.


Here’s an amazon link. It would change the look a little bit, so I’m not sure it’s exactly what you’re looking for.

Another idea is to get floral wire, poke it through and outline each spike, which would be the less noticeable way to get some shape.

Used this and nearly 7 packs of [these!] (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003W0NO08/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) I just used an old corkboard to stick the tacks in to paint them.

It... it comes in blue. O.o

(Thanks for the link, for some reason OP's link sent me to the mobile site which has almost no info).

Thanks for the contest!

Cheapest item

Something else cool!

Floral foam does float, until it absorbs a lot of water and you jam a lot of flowers and greenery in it.

This is a case of 20 bricks of floral foam, each 3" x 4" x 8", or 96 cubic inches times 20 = 1920 cubic inches. It weighs 3.1 pounds, which seems to include the cardboard box and possibly plastic wrap, but we'll have to disregard that for now. ((3.1 * 16) / 1920) = 0.026 ounces per cubic inch of foam. The density of water is 0.6 ounces per cubic inches, so the foam is far less dense than water: 1920 cubic inches of water would weigh (0.6 * 1920) = (1120 / 16) = 70 pounds exactly.

2200 pounds of floral foam would have a volume of ((2200 * 16) / 0.026) = 1,353,846 cubic inches, or a cube 783 inches on a side, which is to say (783 / 12) = 65 feet on a side, give or take. The average length of a blue whale, depending on who you ask, is about 70 feet, so the image above looks a little out of proportion, but not wildly so, certainly not an order of magnitude. Maybe it's a very young whale. If we weighed floral foam on its own, with no wrapping of any sort (and I am not prepared to go out and get some to test this), we might find that it weighs enough less than our assertion of 3.1 pounds to make this picture perfectly accurate.

We had it as decoration at our UK reception (we had a destination wedding in Iceland) and now it sits in a vase at home.

I bought the handle from a chain craft store in the UK, with all their flower arranging things. It was like these handles from Amazon, with the foam thing attached as I couldn't find any without it. I used a craft knife to cut the plastic "cage" surrounding the foam off and removed the foam to get a flatter edge, which I then stuck to the half styrofoam ball.

Give me a couple minutes and I'll take some pictures!

If it's what I think it is, most likely it's not steel but some combination of base and pins that won't rust. Anyway, it looks like a "flower pin frog" for shallow flower arrangements.

Here is a rectangular one.

The thing you're trying to avoid is your vase being too wide, or your flowers too spindly, and they all just slump down and to one side. The need for tape depends greatly on how wide-mouthed your vases are, and how full/fluffy your flowers are. Are your vases transparent? Another option instead of the tape is to use floral foam (also called Oasis foam). If your vases are opaque this would be a good option, but it's not suitable in transparent vases.

Scroll down to product description for some information http://www.amazon.com/Reindeer-Moss-Preserved-Chartreuse-20-Ounce/dp/B007OLK35A

This is what it looked like before i got it.
http://www.amazon.com/Flower-Stem-Cutter-steel-blade/dp/B00767CRO2