IN LOVING MEMORY
The brooch bouquet I made to remember departed loved ones has now been dismantled and the brooches returned to their respective owners. Unfortunately I remembered after I had taken it to pieces that this is the only photograph I have of it. Having seen the idea on various blogs I decided to create one myself. I couldn't find any information on construction but decided it should be relatively straight forward. It wasn't. My first thought was to wire wrap each brooch back and gather the wire 'stems' together to form the bouquet but it was nearly impossible to keep the brooches rigid and they flopped all over the place. A couple more attempts at wiring the structure together in various ways were equally unsuccessful so I finally struck upon the idea of pinning them directly to a shower pouf (technical!) and hiding the exposed underside with some handmade paper. Once it was finished I was glad that it didn't need to be used in the traditional manner as the bloomin' thing weighed a tonne and while I would normally welcome the opportunity to tone up my bingo wings you have to draw the line somewhere! What you can't see is the lovely brooch which secured the paper wrap and paper heart to the stem.
Found by a clever friend, the edelweiss has particular significance for me as it reminds me of my lovely grandma who was Austrian. I miss her every day.
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