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6 & 12 Rose Vases

What you’ll need: Scissors

Step One – Fill your vase to 1/3 full with your pebbles or glass.  Carefully place your filler into your vase to avoid scratching the glass.  Tipping the vase to the side helps to avoid scratching.

Step Two – Remove the elastic band from your roses and set aside.

Step Three – Start by holding your greenery, then place a rose with your greenery to start your arrangement.  Roses can be bent to suit your arrangement.

Step Four – Place another rose with the greenery and repeat this step for all your roses.

Step Five – When you’re happy with your arrangement, secure with the elastic band at the bottom of the stems.

Step Six – Place your arrangement in your vase.

Step Seven – Fill your vase with your remaining pebbles or glass, whilst keeping your arrangement in the centre of your vase.

Step Eight – Take your time to style your arrangement to just how you prefer. Remember the roses can be easily bent to have them in exactly the right position.

Succulents

What you’ll need: Skewer & Scissors

Give yourself plenty of time to assemble your styling item.  It can take between 30 minutes and 1 hour (depending on how familiar you are with this type of activity) to assemble.

Step One – Pierce the soil packet in six places at the bottom.  These are holes for excess water to drain.

Step Two - Place the unopened soil packet in the centre of your vase.

Step Three – Fill your vase to 1cm high with your pebbles or glass.

Step Four – Hold the beginning few cm’s of your fairy lights against the bottom of the inner edge of your vase.

Step Five – Place a little of your filler behind the fairy lights and in between the soil packet.

Step Six – Rotate the vase a little and hold the next few cm’s of your fairy lights against the inner edge of your vase and place filler behind it. You may find it useful to use the blunt end of the skewer or a pen to hold the fairy lights in place against the glass whilst you place your filler.

Step Seven – Repeat Step 6 until most your filler is used (leave enough filler to cover the top of the soil) and have a few cm’s of fairy lights left.

Step Eight – Hang the remaining fairy lights and its battery pack on the edge of the vase to keep it out of the way for the moment.

Step Nine – Cut open the soil packet just above the level of the filler and remove 1/3 of the soil from the packet and set aside.

Step Ten – Bury the fairy lights battery pack in the filler away from the soil. The battery pack must not get wet when watering your succulent(s) so keep this in mind when placing your battery pack.  

Step Eleven – Plant your succulent(s) in the remaining soil. Then spoon the soil you set aside around your succulent(s) to ensure the roots are covered. Next, flatten the edge of the soil packet so it's level with the filler.

Place remaining filler around your succulent(s) on top of the soil.

Step Twelve -  Succulents need light much more than they need water, so keep your succulent(s) somewhere where there is a lot of natural light. Give your succulent(s) a small amount of water.  If it drains through to the bottom of the vase you’ve given it too much.  That’s no problem, only water again when the soil is completely dry.