Lavender - Calmness

 

Week 3: Lavender

This week I chose to make lavender, which is commonly associated with calmness. I have three exams in the upcoming week along with many assignments to get done, so I knew this week would be busy. Making lavender helps remind myself to take a break every once in a while and avoid overworking myself. I have never made this paper flower before so it was fun to design and create something new. I think this definitely helped my health by giving me something to look forward to during a stressful week.

I created these flowers using my Cricut machine to cut out flower shapes with a slit (shown on the left below). Then, I hot glued the gap together to create a 3D effect (shown on the right below), and stacked them by size onto a dyed wooden dowel. I used hot glue to attach everything, including the leaves as a transition into the "stem". 

And this is the bouquet so far, made up of camellias and lavender:

Read more about lavender:

https://bouqs.com/blog/lavender-flower-meaning-symbolism/?srsltid=AfmBOooka8mZv4h8igi-As3MFq9bORAMsUljeA2lyr3AIK2_u0rS7Gr_