The Ugly Ducklings Become Swans - Editor's Challenge #4

This all started from....

This!!! Who recommended that we do an Editor's challenge? Take a look at this combo. I'm sure that I am the only one crying while the rest of you are having a good old fashioned hoot fest over this. Make sure to use spray paint for plastic...believe me I know.

Off to the races to get something to work with. Opposites attract...or so they say!

The focal point of a bridal shower (other than the bride-to-be) is generally the floral centerpiece...so I started there. I spray painted the wire basket, lined it with moss and then lined it with  a plastic bag. After that I dropped in a piece of floral foam and set the flowers in place. Those of you who know me might be shocked by my flower of choice..the dreaded carnation. In this case, when they are tightly bunched together they are actually quite beautiful. The color is drop dead gorgeous. There is indeed an exception to every rule! Oh, yes as you might imagine this basket was a bit lopsided. I set it on a floral frog for stability and then atop an Ironstone plate.

The beaters that I was given were actually perfect to hold the candles in place in the floral arrangement. Can you beat that? Hahaha!

Anyone up for doing the mashed potato?? Seing that I created a kitchen bridal shower in my mind, I thought the potato masher would be the ideal gift table sign. After spray painting it I tied a clip on with ribbon and attached the pretty little card.

Every kitchen has a bottle or two, right? Every wedding shower should have the same. I'm a big fan of wine tastings at festive occassions. I used decorative paper, paper trim, ribbon, and a wedding ring charm to decorate the bottle and hide the label at the same time. If I were really doing a wine tasting I would have several bottles wrapped identically, but bearing different charms related to the wedding shower theme. Oopsie, doops almost forgot the cork screw. Just painted it whited and added a "W" for wine.

Okie, dokie, dominokie....this part of the plastic corkscrew is a doozzie indeed! I spray painted it, put a slit in the top, and slipped a placecard in it. I'm pretty sure you should be able to find these little gems in free piles making it easy enough to find enough to set the whole table.

Here is the whole family. This is only a start of what I would do for a wedding shower., but this gift of junk got me started down the path! Thank you!

P.S. Oofdah..I'm glad I'm done with this one! You'll notice that there were two pieces left unused. No worries... there's always tomorrow!