{"id":3702,"date":"2009-03-13T00:21:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2010-02-16T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T17:23:22","slug":"first-signs-of-spring-daffodil-bouquets-made-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/first-signs-of-spring-daffodil-bouquets-made-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"First Signs of Spring: Daffodil Bouquets Made Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3707\" title=\"untitled-17-copy1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/untitled-17-copy1-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"untitled-17-copy1\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/untitled-17-copy1-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/untitled-17-copy1-768x898.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/untitled-17-copy1-810x947.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/untitled-17-copy1.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Spring is in the air!\u00a0 Nothing commands Winter away<\/em> like a bouquet of\u00a0 Daffodils.\u00a0 Many women find flower arranging difficult. Here is an easy way to get a full-flower perfect look without losing your hair or having to use a hundred blossoms. This fuss free bouquet will remind you to celebrate this season of warmth and renewal every day. <\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3713\" title=\"untitled-18-copy3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/untitled-18-copy3-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"untitled-18-copy3\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/> First pick the flower of your choice. Choose between 20 to 40 blooms depending on the size of your vase and blooms. My vase pictured is quite large, so I picked 30 daffodils.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3701\" title=\"untitled-20-copy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/untitled-20-copy-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"untitled-20-copy\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/> Measure your stems to the length you would like being sure to coordinate with your vase height. Cut all flowers uniformly.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3700\" title=\"untitled-21-copy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/untitled-21-copy-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"untitled-21-copy\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/> In bundles of six to ten, secure flowers together with thin elastic bands. For this bouquet, I bundled my daffodils into three sets of ten.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3699\" title=\"untitled-22-copy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/untitled-22-copy-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"untitled-22-copy\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/untitled-22-copy-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/untitled-22-copy-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/untitled-22-copy-810x665.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/untitled-22-copy.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Using a final elastic, secure all bundles of flowers together.  This will create an easy full &#8220;circle&#8221; flower look similar to a wedding bouquet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3698\" title=\"untitled-23-copy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/untitled-23-copy-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"untitled-23-copy\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3697\" title=\"untitled-15-copy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/untitled-15-copy-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"untitled-15-copy\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/> Place bundled bouquet in vase. Using ribbon, tie a bow around the vase to hide any showing elastics. Add water and enjoy Spring!<\/p>\n<p>For more Spring Bouquet inspiration, check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=3367\">Easy Spring Green Centerpiece <\/a>or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=3403\">Fresh Inspiration: Lemons Welcome Spring.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is in the air!  Nothing commands Winter away like a bouquet of  Daffodils.  Many women find flower arranging difficult. Here is an easy way to get a full-flower perfect look without losing your hair or having to use a hundred blossoms. This fuss free bouquet will remind you to celebrate this season of warmth and renewal every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}