Designer's Notebook

Are you having an outdoor garden party or maybe even a BBQ and are looking for a fresh idea to dress up your tablescape?   Gather a variety of blooms from your garden, farmer’s market, or your local nursery and place them in a homemade birch covered vase.   Here are some of our industry secrets to make your next party a one of a kind fete.

Materials:
Birch Bark
Scissors
Cylinder Vases
Hot Glue Gun
Brown Leather Rope or rafia twine
Your choice of flowers

Instructions:
1.Wrap birch around the vase to measure how much you’ll need for each vase leaving about a 2 in seam of bark overlapping. Glue the birch together.

2. Once the birch is wrapped on each vase, cut enough leather rope or rafia twine to wrap the vase twice and then tie with a bow.

3. After the vases have been complete, add your favorite flowers (we chose a variety of seasonal white blooms). The overall look of the flowers should be airy – make sure to include green accents – our favorite is scented geranium!

To complete this tablescape, collect a crisp white linen cloth, mason jars, galvanized tins, and rattan chargers.  If the party is in the evening intersperse pillar candles enclosed in lanterns between the flower compositions to create an enchanting finishing detail.