Update Your Silk Flowers with Spray Paint!

Thyme to decorate & you don’t have any pine picks? With a little Imagination, it is so easy to update silk flowers with spray paint!

The Dilemma

One thing you would think a former florist would have would be a seemingly endless supply of decorating materials. Sadly, due to space constraints , I had to downsize my “cave of wonders”.  The cave of wonders is what my florist friend called all the areas where we stored everything at the shop.  The cave of wonders was vast, it held a lot.  It even had a branch location at my farm and at couple of off-site storage units.  I had a lot of material to work with! I couldn’t always find what I needed but that is fodder for another blog post!

How I came to Be Pine Pick Challenged

The downsizing process took place over a number of months.  It started with just simply trying to tackle the amount of stuff my parents left when they passed away.  I shared the downsizing process in this post: Thyme To Let Go: How I Downsized the Family Homestead

Honestly, the journey lasted a lot longer than I had planned.   I wasn’t always  thinking clearly when dealing with the process.  When I sorted thru the flower shop supplies, I wasn’t thinking about the future.   I just wanted to get the building cleared out.

Which is how I ended up standing in my living room looking at all the stuff I had pulled out of the Christmas tubs and saying “Who took the pine picks?”.  I immediately tried to blame Gracie.  Gracie got blamed for a lot.   She always said she didn’t take whatever it was that I was looking for!  She had such a sweet face!  Of course she was innocent!

Sadly, we lost Gracie earlier this fall.  I missed her so much, I had to adopt a new “baby”.  Now, Mowgli gets blamed for all the missing things! 

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After spinning around the room a few times, certain that if I just kept looking the pine pics would miraculously appear, I decided to run out to a couple of local stores to see what I could fine that might work.  I came back with some really cools things but no pine picks.  I knew there was a box (or 2, maybe even 3) of pine picks and pine sprays still at the farm in the glass house.  

But having pine picks approximately 1100 miles away, doesn’t really help me when I am in the decorating zone and want to decorate NOW!

How to Update Silk Flowers with Spray Paint

My Solution

After I was finished muttering about how I couldn’t believe someone hadn’t packed the pine picks, I decided to look around the house to see what I might be able to turn into something that would work as a pine pick.  I happened to glance up and see this bundle.  It is a neutral bundle of what looks like dried grass.  I brought it to Florida thinking it had a beachy vibe.

Since this is me we are talking about, I had 3 bundles of this.  I decided I could sacrifice one bundle for the good of solving the pine pick dilemma.  They also had the cute little tallow berries to add interest.  I separated the bundle into individual picks.

You are probably thinking, but Kim they are brown…. brown…. not what a normal person would use for their Christmas decorations.  That is where our friend, spray paint, comes in! Let me show you how easy it is to update silk flowers with spray paint!

 

We used a lot of spray paint at the flower shop.  I did bring quite a few cans of it with me.  In fact, my husband just asked why I had so much spray paint!  He asked if it was because Petals & Porch Post had so much spray paint!  I think there might have been a big box of spray paint in that last load of “stuff” from Illinois!

Back to the story : I decided that Hill Green might work.  I was going for a more coastal feel.  If you want a more traditional green, there are several shades of green available.  I included a link to Design Master Christmas Green at the end of the post.  It does look like the Christmas Green is currently unavailable on line but you might be able to find it at a craft store .  Also, there are a few other green colors available.

I shook my can of Hill Green paint and stepped outside to spray.

Voila!  It worked!  The next step was to add a little pine and pinecones to the tallow berry sea grass picks .  I separated this pine spray to get the material  I needed.  This pine spray also had tallow berries so I was able to incorporate them also.

To finish the pine picks, I used brown floral tape to attach the pine/pine cone pick to the beachy grassy pick.  Floral tape comes in several different colors.  I used brown for this but you could use green.  To get the floral tape to adhere, simply gently pull it to stretch it as you wrap it around the stem.  Don’t pull too hard or the tape with break!

Now you are ready to create a holiday centerpiece!

Coastal Holiday Oval Dough Bowl

I often keep an oval dough bowl on my gathering room coffee table.  I like to decorate it for the seasons.

Autumn

Christmas

To make the Coastal Christmas Holiday dough bowl display, I removed everything from the bowl and dusted it. I placed the battery candle in the center.   I then layered the pine picks in and then added the Christmas ornaments and  shells . I kept it fairly simple.  As it gets closer to Christmas, I can add more elements such as silver glittery pine cones or metallic painted shells.

The pine picks can be used where ever you  need a little touch of Christmas!

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