Touch Up Your Table!

I know Thanksgiving is just two days away, but these flower arrangements are totally doable and will make your table that much more attractive. They are the same basic flower arrangements that were on a previous Pickett's Pearls post ("Put a Little Drama in Your Life") with two fun additions: autumn leaves and mini pumpkins.

I got the idea of using autumn leaves from my daughter, Carly, who was about six at the time. (Surprise, surprise she is an awesome artist now.) Anyway one Thanksgiving day while I was arranging flowers for our table, Carly came up to me and asked, "Why don't you use fall leaves?" Well needless to say, I have been using fall leaves ever since. 

There is some sad, sad news about mini pumpkins. I went to three grocery stores and couldn't find them. Of course there was plenty of poinsettias everywhere. Thankfully I had some mini pumpkins laying around the house. If you have super small mini pumpkins, you're lucky. If you happen to have a little larger minis, you may want to make your arrangement bigger.

You'll need:

1 oasis ( the soft kind, which you can get at Michael's)

 A low container for the centerpiece

Two different  bunches of fun, fall, flowers (I just had to put the "fun" in. Try saying that over and over.)

Very sharp scissors or clippers

Lots of small or medium-sized autumn leaves. I have a beautiful tree, so I don't have to forage anywhere else. (Artificial leaves are also an option if natural autumn leaves aren't available.) 

Tooth picks & masking tape

Opt. mini pumpkins and wooden skewers (The skewers  are at any grocery store.)

Greenery

Step 1. Cut oasis to fit container snuggly, then throughly soak with water. Step 2. Cut the stems of one kind of flower. Stems should be 3.5 to 5 inches depending on whether container is smaller or larger. Step 3. Arrange some of the first type of flower in a corner of the container (forming a cluster). Step 4. Arrange the same number of flowers of the first type across from the first cluster of flowers. (Thank goodness there are pics.) Step 5. Then take the second type of flowers and fill in the other two spots in the arrangement, so they are diagonal with each other as well. Step 6. Then add greenery. (Greenery fills in empty places and adds height to the arrangement.)

Step 7. Take the toothpicks and tape them to the stems of medium sized fall leaves. (Artificial leaves are also an option.)

Step 8. Put the fall leaves around the base  of the arrangement.

Opt. Step 9. If you want to use mini pumpkins, I suggest you take a wooden skewer and break it so that it is about 5 inches or so. Then pierce the bottom of the pumpkins and place them kitty corner from each other in the arrangement.

There, you have a beautiful flower arrangement!

Surprise, Surprise. I will be doing an arrangement with fall leaves AND baby pumpkins.

Just a note: At Thanksgiving we go around the table and say one thing that we are thankful for. This tradition makes Thanksgiving that much more special. (Except for the part about watching football, of course.)