The Renaissance Woman

Welcome to the Cheeky Craft Chick Blog!

Here’s what to expect:

• I will do my damnedest to post at least once a week. I am aiming for Sundays, as that is my usual “down day” and I rarely have to leave the house. Good time to take pictures of my latest project or find something particularly cute and quirky on the interwebs to post.
• “Craft” entails any creative endeavor I see fit to include. I will warn you now, this will include sewing clothing, cooking, painting, and refreshing or re-purposing furniture. I feel most of these types of creative home projects and more traditional crafts are similar in nature, and I get a similar type of pleasure from doing them.
• I will post an assortment of my personal crafting projects, as well as ideas, articles, or pictures I find on the web that might be interesting to home crafters. I originally thought to post a craft a week that I had completed, but I need to be realistic and acknowledge that as much as I would like to have that level of personal output, I have a full time job and a husband. Both take a fair amount of time. Unfortunately, neither overlaps with crafting.

So, without further ado, I thought I’d kick things off with a crafty item I made for my wedding in 2007.

Fresh flower prices being what they are, I was looking for something interesting and creative to substitute for the fresh bouquet of flowers the bride normally carries down the aisle. I liked flowers, and some other suggestions (a favorite book, a meaningful keepsake) just didn’t do it for me. I remembered high school and my days experimenting with origami, and EUREKA!

Origami Flowers.

I did a combination of purple tulips, baby blue 4 petal flowers and cream colored 6 petal lilies. My bouquet is shown above. I also made bouquets for the bridesmaids, corsages and boutineers for the VIPs of the day, flowers for the cake, and favors for our guests.