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- One 6-inch round or oblong basket. If the basket has a handle, you'll need to cut it off
- 1 liner to fit inside the basket (a cereal bowl usually works well)
- Half a brick of floral foam
- 5 gaylex leaves or large ivy leaves
- Approximately 2-dozen stems bright pink roses
- 4 stems white freesia
- 12 stems baregrass
- 6-inches of narrow gauge wire
- 1 small handful green moss
- 1 stem Casa Blanca lily or white Asiatic lily
- 1 to 2 stems babies breath
- 2 small rubberbands
- Floral preservative, knife and clippers
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| Directions:
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Step 1 - Soak the floral foam in water that has been treated with floral preservative.
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Step 2 - Cut the foam to fit the liner of the basket. The foam should meet the top of the basket. Fill the foam-filled liner with water that has been treated with floral preservative. If the basket has a handle, you'll need to cut it off, now insert the foam-filled liner in to the basket.
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Step 3 - Cut and insert the gaylex or ivy leaves low in the basket around its edges.
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Step 4 - Cut the stems of the roses about 2-inches in length. The roses are inserted very close to each other to make a bed of roses. Therefore, place the first rose in the center of the basket. Now simply surround this rose with the other roses until the foam is completely filled.
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Step 5 - Cut the babies breath to the height of the roses and insert stems 'here and there' between the roses.
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Step 6 - To create the baregrass handle, make 2 bunches of bear grass, 6 stems each. Rubberband the ends of each bunch. Now insert them into opposite sides of the basket.
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Step 7 - Cut 2 stems of freesia to about 12- to 14-inches in length. Cut 2 stems of freesia to about 6-inches in length.
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Step 8 - Bring the freesia and the bear grass together over the top of the basket to form a natural handle. Adhere them together with the narrow wire. Hide the wire with a bit of moss that can be caught up in the wire. Add 2 short stems of freesia to each side of the natural handle.
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