Victorian Flower Arrangement

My husband and I inherited two of these beautiful victorian silver vases. 

My mother-in-law displayed them proudly on her fireplace mantel and I always admired them.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think they would one day be sitting on my fireplace mantle. 

These vase are beautiful standing alone but I needed a little color on my mantle

 so I made flower arrangements in them.

 This is how I did it.

First I bought silk flowers.

 The color of my flowers are a little on the muddy side.

 I selected these colors for two reasons one- I love muddy colors,

 two- I felt these type of flowers and their muddy colors would give my

 arrangements more of a Victorian feel.

I cut and placed my florist foam inside of my vases.

Now for the arranging.

 I cut and trim my flowers as I go. 

I place my tall flowers in the back of my arrangment and the 

long hanging flowers in the front.

I continue cutting and placing my flowers,

 going back and forth between

 the two arrangements so that they look the same. 

While in reality they are opposite.

I have all of my flowers in place now I need to cover the the exposed foam.

I do this with green moss.

I was able to place my moss on and around my arrangement and it stayed in place.

If your moss will not stay in place a glue gun should do the job perfectly.

My Victorian vases now sit very proudly on my mantle,

their arrangements give my living room a little slash of color.