spring has sprung!

my mom is an advisor on campus for the institute and needed a table centerpiece for a big event! i said i would be glad to make one. i love playing around...especially when i could spend her money to make it. the theme was 'spring has sprung, come one by one!' cute right. well, my mind automatically goes for something simple, yet bold. elegant, yet dramatic. and when i think spring i think flowers. so we went with it. and this is what i came up with! (the picture is just off my cell phone, so sorry. this was A LOT better in person!)

i was extremely proud of myself and although i wanted to change a lot to make it look more professional, i thought for my first flower arrangment i can't complain! well, i told my mom i wanted to go up with her to set it up. (more just to see all the other table decorations all the other advisors came up with.) well, remember these are LDS women making the centerpeices. and boy, was ours out of place. remember that scene in the RM movie where the mother makes an ice sculpture for the relief society centerpiece. i always hated that part of the movie, thinking they went WAY overboard! but let me tell you....these women REALLY do go all out...and then some. they had centerpieces that left NO room for eating. i mean massive cookie flowers, balloons all over, flip flops, candies, bunnies and slinkies...and yes that was all one table. some even covered the table in grass. i'm not kidding! well, sorry mom. i hope you weren't to embarrassed by my three little vases of flowers and key limes. but don't you worry i got something up my sleeve for next year....i better start carvin' now!!!