Love Around the World

What do you get when you take a beautiful French Candian bride, a handsome Turkish groom and mix in paper boutonnieres made from antique vintage maps, a wooden tie, a paper parasol and vintage suitcases- something timeless!

Alex and Bora are such a handsome couple!!! I absolutely adore their "Vintage travel" photos they are unbelievable!

 

 My bride Alex wanted 8 map boutonnieres made out of pink and blue vintage maps for 5 groomsmen, 2 ring bearers, and the love of her life, her groom Bora.

 

Alex was such a joy to work with she knew what she wanted with one twist she wanted Bora's boutonniere to represent Turkey and his hometown of Istanbul.

She was kind enough to share these very special pictures with me and I wanted to share them with all of you. Alex, thank you so much your beautiful pictures speak for themselves.

 

 

I wish you and Bora much love, laughter and happiness!

 

Bea

 

 

 

 

The Bindy Flower

The Bindy Bloom a new collection of flowers that I am making for one very special bride for her beautiful California late summer wedding. 

 My brides Grandmother had passed away before the wedding but it was so important to her to include her Grandmother in some very important way that represented their relationship. As fate would have it as they were cleaning out her Grandmother's home my bride found an trunk in her  attic. It was filled with old letters, aged paperback books, vintage piano music and some vintage maps. An idea came to life, she had wanted to include her Grandmother in her very special day but in a joyful way just like her Grandmother was in life and what better way than in flowers. This collection of flowers is being made from her Grandmothers old papers from the trunk!

I felt so honored when I received the shipment of the papers. I knew I was holding something so special. It took me weeks making samples out of newspaper and kraft paper before we decided that just the right flower had bloomed to represent her Grandmother.

Each blossom was lovingly handcut and assembled by me! Each of them has over 15 individual petals and they are 3- 5 inches wide. I stained some of the blooms with paper stain or accented them with water colors to create these beautiful blooms and I varied the sizes slightly to make the arrangements visually interesting.

These blooms are going to be the table centerpieces for her outdoor garden wedding and in each centerpiece is one very special purple tinted flower that represents one very special Grandmother on this most joyful of days.

I didn't know her Grandmother personally but from what I have been told I just know that she is smiling and this is exactly what she would have wanted for her granddaughter. A joyful purple blossom made out of something that belonged to her.

That’s extremely special.

Bea

Check out my ETSY shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/BeesBlooms to contact me and lets design something special just for you or to purchase your very own special Bindy bloom.

Something Old - Something New

New Spiderman wedding boutonnieres for the groom who is an ultimate Spiderman fan! This boutonniere was made from a new comic book with a wire web and spider attached for accent. The red spider that bit Peter Parker!

This boutonniere below was made from a vintage comic book with plastic webbing and a black spider attached for accent.

The following two boutonnieres were made with just single spider accents without webbing

and right now I'm making awesome Spiderman Boutonnieres without extra spiders at all. Pics to come. Congratulations Amanda and your fiance' on your upcoming marriage. I can't wait to see the pictures from your wedding I know their going to be awesome! Thank you guys for letting me make these for you. It was so much fun!!!

Check my ETSY shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/BeesBlooms for Spiderman boutonnieres for sale!

Beautiful Music Paper Blooms

I have an exciting new bride who wants her entire bridal bouquet to be made entirely out of music. A bouquet of different music paper blooms accented in different shades of purples. I am just now experimenting  making music flowers to get that just right combination of blooms which will look awesome with each other.

This is a large open peony, what a stunning wow factor it will have as the major accent bloom in her bouquet.









Maybe along with some music roses and possibly a few completely purple accent flowers.

Stay tuned to see how this magical bouquet comes to life. Many more blooms to make, endless combinations - how exciting!

Mother's Day

 How do you tell a very special Mother  that you love her very much when you live far away on  Mother's Day? By sending her a beautiful bouquet of handmade vintage music roses in an antique bottle, so special, so unique. These flowers were sent by one very special daughter to surprise her Mom for Mother's Day.

Each petal of these roses were handmade by me from vintage music paper. I stained the base sheets to accentuate the vintage look and then as a final touch I applied garnet highlights along the edges for that just so special touch. After the roses were completed and the music leaves applied I placed them in a 50+ year old bottle with a lovely brown ribbon for that final touch.

The daughter had asked me to write a note that said "Do not open until Mother's Day", along with a special message. So I designed and made a special card for her and wrote her message inside and attached it to a beautiful package that I wrapped with special papers and ribbons. Finally I wrapped it inside a plain box for shipping. I would love to be able to see the Mom's face when she gets her special gift from her loving daughter so far away - what a lucky Mother!


So Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's and Mom's to be ;)

I love you Mom, Bea

My beautiful North Carolina Bride

I have a fantastic new bride to be who is planning the most creative wedding ever! This is such an exciting wedding to design the flowers for because of all of the wonderful creative leadway she has given me to design to her visions, then she reviews, tweaks and approves.

I can't give it away just yet because her wedding isn't until October and I have a personal policy not to show all of a brides flowers until after her big day. But ... here are a few quick peeks at some of the unique flowers I have already made for her bridal bouquet.

A beautiful white peony, white roses, cabbage roses and rose buds made out of pages from a book accented with pumpkin spice stain. These were repurposed from a damaged antique book of a story of her selection (more to come on that later). ***No rare, valuable, or collectible books were harmed in the making of this piece.***

 Beautiful stems of ranunculus in fall colors, stephanotis with crystal centers accents all surrounded by fall colored flowers in tones of persimmion, dark oranges, browns, greens, whites and ivory all accented with stems of pearls and crystals. So beautiful!

Please stay tuned I will be doing a full feature on Susan and Bo's wedding hopefully in November.

It is 3/4 finished now with still more flowers to go, then the final assembly and wrapping of the handle.  We are almost there, then on to the maid of honors bouquet.

                                               One boutonniere idea still in the works.

All to go to this beautiful venue for one magical afternoon wedding in October, just plain southern magic.

I am blessed,
Bea

Heart-lines!

One of my lastest creations in my shop "Heart-Lines".

This decorative wall hanging is made from vintage maps (I have a large collection) that can literally represent any Heart-Line (timeline) you desire.

Your Heart-Line can be a new marriage, a wedding anniversary or a childs life - your imagination is the limit.

A new marriage for example can be a Heart-Line of a relationship, maps of the places where "We were Engaged", "We were Married", "Where we Honeymooned", and "Our First Home".
You tell me the what - Engaged for example and the where - Memphis, Tennessee and I will find a unique and beautiful map of that place. I can also place a small star on the map heart of exactly where the event took place.

This has been such a popular item for wedding shower gifts and wedding gifts. The orders are picking up daily ... I'm so excited!!! If you are interested they are listed in my Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/listing/95453784/our-heart-line-3-hearts-a-fantastic?listing_id=95453784&listing_slug=our-heart-line-3-hearts-a-fantastic for a 3 heart Heart-Line or https://www.etsy.com/listing/95983880/our-heart-line-4-hearts-a-fantastic?listing_id=95983880&listing_slug=our-heart-line-4-hearts-a-fantastic for the 4 heart version. The listing of the cities is your choice.

We Met, We were engaged, We were married

                               We were engaged, We were married, We Honeymooned, We Live

A Beautiful Brides Trip Around the World

A beautiful bride came to me with a vision for her bridal bouquet. She wanted it to represent all of her favorite places that she had visited around the world. So .... I sat down with 6 vintage Atlas's and made this for her.

She loved it so much that she decided that she wanted the grooms boutonniere to be made out of the map where he proposed.

and then added the bridesmaids bouquets and groomsmens boutonnieres. What a beautiful trip around the world - I can't wait for the wedding pictures!!!

Sixty Beautiful Map Roses for a beautiful Florida Bride

Beautiful handmade map roses for my special Florida bride Kimberlyn to incorporate into an awesome concept she designed for the table decorations of her travel themed wedding. All 60 of the flowers plus a few spares just to make sure everything traveled well were handmade by me out of vintage maps. I even included as a little gift a bouquet of smaller map roses that she decorated her sign in table with! I can't wait to see her pictures of the receptions tables with the suitcases and map roses :)

Update: A picture from my special bride of the beautiful centerpieces she designed and used my map roses in, aren't they awesome!