MATCHSTICK FLOWER BROOCHES

The theme for Le Challenge this month is “Wood”.

 

I thought I'd give it a go but with self-imposed limits.

 

 No new purchases allowed, use existing materials and tools only.

 

And it must be done in three hours ---

the time it takes to boil the herbal chicken soup I'm making for lunch.

 

The soup pot went on the stove at 8am and I got started.

 

These were the only wood things in the house that could be used:

 

I sawed off the burnt end of the matchstick using a knife with a serrated edge.

 

Looking at the wooden stick, I immediately thought of a flower...

the kind little kids like to draw.

 

I have beads, crimp end cap and fine gauge wire to make stick flowers.

Here's where I got stuck. What is it going to be?

A hairpin? A pendant? What?!

I couldn't resolve it.

 

The clock was ticking away.......

 

I turned down the gas so the soup would cook on a very slooow simmer.

 

Then out of the blue, I got it!

 

A single flower bouquet.

 

 

Cream coloured ribbon as the “paper wrap”,

a green ribbon tie and a brooch pin sewn on the back.

 

Done!

 

Four hours and ten minutes.
 

It was a morning well spent.

 

:-)

 

~Ema N~

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