At some point last summer I found myself steering aimlessly (as I often do) through the world wide web looking for ideas, inspiration and (truth be known) killing time. It was during this time that I came across a beautiful butterfly bouquet on the Martha Stewart Weddings site I was mesmerized with the beauty of this idea. I saved a copy of the picture to my hard drive and filed it in my ‘to do’ list. The whole wedding spread in this section is terrific ; I am in love with the garden motif they used

Time escaped me ….as if often does…and while the bouquet remained in my files, I had done nothing with it. At Christmas time I made my annual ‘to craft this year’ list and put this bouquet on it.  Within weeks of mentally deciding to do I received an email from an Etsy (www.etsy.com) client who wanted to do something similar for her summer wedding.

I began by putting together a butterfly board of potential winged candidates for the bouquet

Over the next month or so I wrapped the floral wire in white tape and began piecing together a bouquet . Soon I was able to send a picture of the first mock-up While I liked it, I found it lacking in shape or something. it wasn’t my vision, it wasn’t MARTHA enough and I tucked the butterflies away not sure what to do with myself.

I decided part of my problem is a lack of larger butterflies. Recently I acquired a few more butterflies I thought might help with my vision.  I took a part the original bouquet, sat down and began again. Last night, the bouquet I am happy to say I made has now been bride approved.  I am very pleased with the outcome of this arrangement. I look forward to seeing it finished with a ribbon wrapping and in the hands of the bride! I will be boxing this fluttering fashion up and sending it off to the UK later this week. I hope that I will get to see it’s final destination in picture or two!