Apparently, I was all about topiaries for this party. Or maybe party blogs are all about topiaries. Either way, this was a VERY ambitious project.
I found a few pictures of these through google searches and finally dedicated myself to making one. To be 100% honest, I originally was intending to make two. When one of the tutorials I found said it took 5 hours to make, I actually laughed out loud. 6+ hours later when I realized that was actually an UNDERestimation of time, I downgraded to one.
Supplies I used:
a styrofoam ball (~$2 using a coupon)
about a million feet of ribbon (~$5 - fancy ribbon $1 a spool on sale, plain ribbon 4 for $1 also on sale)
around 600 small dress pins (~$4 - 2 packs with coupons )
glue gun (all my own stuff!)
square floral styrofoam ($1 for pack of three from the dollar store)
paper shreds (~$3 - large bag used for all paper and ribbon topiaries)
small white planter (~$2 - on sale)
Here is the full tutorial with photos. I only took one sad, blurry photo of my topiary in progress that you can see here:
I don't have a great photo to showcase my topiary up close, but here it is proudly displayed on the cupcake/favor table at the party:
This was amazing!
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