Whatever Wednesday -- Paper Flower Recycling

Remember these flowers?  I love them and they have been sitting on my kitchen counter.  Over the last few weeks my counters have gotten terribly cluttered and as I cleaned them off today I decided to do a little decor rearranging too.  This is what they looked like before.

I pulled out all of my vases and glass containers and tried the flowers in every different container I could think of.  My Mom, who has been visiting but has to leave tomorrow :( suggested I make Sundae's out of them.  At first I thought she was crazy, but once we tried it, I really loved it.  Just right for summer!  So I layered some glass beads into some parfait glasses and then added the flowers and a straw to each of them.  Cute right?

I wanted one of them to sit higher than the other so I took a small star candle holder and flipped it over to use as a base.  It was the perfect height, but wouldn' stay steady.  So I used cornstarch clay as cement and so far so good.  The two parfait glasses looked cute by themselves, but I thought it needed something else.  I took an old butter dish and flipped the lid over to use as a banana split bowl.  I stuck the two together using cornstarch clay and then filled it with beans so the flowers had something to push into.  Then I added a spoon and prest-o change-o a cute summertime centerpiece (or counter top display).

So, what do you think?

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