Using a skewer or disposable chopstick (you know the kind they throw 20 pairs of in the bottom of your take out Chinese food) and thread through the foam pumpkins, leaving enough at one end to stick
into the floral foam.
I put my braches
into floral foam and covered it with moss but it work in a vase like I did last year just as well.
Not exact matches
Tuck pieces of wet
floral foam into two pots, add a bit of greenery and some hypericum berries (available from most florists), and finish off the pair with festive holiday - hue candles.
In this work, which is wall mounted like an gargantuan
floral wreath, tiny little objects such as angel figurines and silk flowers are camouflaged and completely overpowered by molten matter made up of large masses of
foam and glass paint with beads, while actual bubbles are emitted
into the viewer's space with the assistance of an aerator.
Carnations have a sturdy stem, so it was easy to place those in the
floral foam, whereas the roses have tiny, weaker stems and needed to be pushed in more carefully (make sure you hold their stem at the base while you're pushing it
into place.)
Put it back
into the bowl and arrange the seasonal greens and
florals by sticking the stems right
into the
foam.
I simply cut one cylinder of the
floral foam in half and wedged it
into the urn.