Tree Peonies

These are my tree peonies. I just love them! They are always so beautiful! I had to pick them yesterday as they don't last long and they live even shorter if it rains which it did this morning! I have them in my breakfast nook and I can smell them thru the kitchen into my family room.

~*~ Flower Tutorials ~*~

If you love making flowers, you MUST check out this flower tutorial! They are gorgeous. There are 5 different tutorials on the link that I am going to give you. Julie has done an EXCELLENT job. I can see these flowers topping the paperclip bookmarks farther down in my blog. Check out these floral tutorial!

Floral Altered Pens

~*~ Tootsie Roll Pop Flowers ~*~

I got this idea from the Queen of Crafts, LoriJean. She had posted the flowers on her blog. I took it a step farther and put them into a bouquet for my daughters, daughter-in-laws and a couple of friends for Mothers Day. They loved them! The clip board is a small clipboard from the $ store that I just added an altered flower to and added it to the gift. Both are so easy. I got the Tootsie roll pops and dum dums from the $ store. I found flowers there as well as Walmart that had bags of the flowers that fall off the stems in the store. The huge gallon bag cost me only $.50! Bargain or what! Easy and inexpensive.