So George had Prom this weekend and JoEllen came over to make a Boutonniere and a Corsage for him and his date. The price to order one from ANY flower shop in town is ridiculous! Corsages run anywhere from $35 on UP! and Bout's are never lower than $20. Both of those prices are before taxes and f you cave a coupon. It's super crazy and they are small and usually not very pretty. So we have taken up making them ourselves. JoEllen makes real flower ones and I do fakies. I always use silk flowers on a nice bracelet so they can take the flowers off after and throw away if they want and have a nice bracelet to remember the date by and you can color co-ordinate it to the dress.
JoEllen likes to use Slap bracelets! Also very fun. Here we covered one of Matty's with Gray duct tape because the girls dress was gray. JoEllen covered it with a fun see through pink striped ribbon to give it a splash of color. Then we wired the flowers together and hot glued them onto the bracelet and then made a ribbon and tied it onto the bracelet just for good measure. It seamed to work perfectly. JoEllen got some GORGEOUS flowers from Smith's market place for only $5. And the best part about using fresh flowers is that you get the rest of the flowers to make yourself a nice bouquet for your home as a thank you that you will never get from your son for making these for him.
I am going to have to switch over to slap bracelets for Ben and David because I just googled them and I can get them in bulk for WAYYYY cheaper than a beaded bracelet! Also, one of our friends just told me that she does magnetic boutonnieres! It blew my mind! I'm excited to try it.
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