Baby's Breath - Hope

 

Week 13: Baby's Breath

This week, I decided that I needed a flower that was easy to make and also relatively small because I am running out of room in the vase. I ended up choosing to make baby's breath because it is my favorite filler flower. Baby's breath is commonly associated with many things, such as innocence, purity, and devotion, but I am choosing to focus on it's association with hope. Many facets of life are very stressful right now, finals week, the economy, politics, my research lab, and the list goes on. A little bit of hope right now goes a long way, so instead I will focus on the good things upcoming and try to remind myself that I am always working towards my goals. Fun fact these flowers are made out of tissues, which is really fitting because I am incredibly sick right now and have gone through almost a whole box. These flowers were fun because I like baby's breath a lot and they were relatively simple to do, so I do think they provided a boost to my mental health.

As I mentioned, these are made from tissues, which gives it the nice fluffy look of baby's breath. These are also different from my normal flowers because I did not use the Cricut to cut anything. These are actually super simple to make and are just done by folding up tissue paper into a long strip, rounding the edges of one side, and then cutting it about a half an inch long, then rounding the next corners and repeating, so you get about 18 buds from one tissue. Then you unfold it once (leaving most of it folded makes it easier to roll), apply glue to the flat/bottom edge, and then roll it around the floral wire. I decided to group them so they looked more realistic, so after I had three buds, I wrapped them around each other, and then when I had three groups I wrapped them around the dowel (shown below). I then used floral tape all the way down the dowel to transition from the wire into the stem (as shown in the finished product above).

And this is the bouquet so far, made up of camellias, lavender, roses, sunflowers, dahlias, carnations, cosmos, bluebells, marigolds, crocuses, and baby's breath:

Read more about baby's breath:

https://craftwayfloral.com.sg/babys-breaths-meaning/