A New Chrysanthemum

I wanted to make a bronze-coloured mum, and this one uses three different shades of paper; brown in the centre, ochre in the middle and golden yellow on the bottom. I also tried a different leaf; for years, I've been using the leaf on the maroon mums, but I decided to try a very small oak leaf. I really like it, it makes the plant look dainty. Opinions?




So just for the heck of it, I decided to list the number of components in a 7-bloom, 3-blossom pot of miniature chrysanthemums like these. Each bloom consists of: a stem with the end dipped in glue and paint, nine petal punch-outs, a sepal punchie, and two leaf punchies. Two of the colours were hand-painted, while the ochre came from some wide quilling paper I purchased years ago. The leaf paper is also hand-painted. Then there are three blossoms, consisting of a dipped wire, and two punchies each, as well as two leaves and a sepal. To fill the pot out, there are seven stems of three leaves each, made of hand-painted paper. Every single punch-out was hand-shaped. The total for a pot of mums? More than 200 individual pieces!

I used to sell my mums at shows for $9.00 Canadian; that may have to change!

Now I have to find the instructions for a realistic potting table: a dirt-filled bin with a sliding tray, a space for trowels and the like, and a shelf below to hold the bags of soil and fertiliser. That means going through dozens and dozens of old  DHN magazines. Although I looked for an index, I couldn't find one. Hopefully, we can have another mini day tomorrow, perhaps even meet up in person again; we can get together in groups of 10 as long as we keep our social distances....