We’re thrilled to introduce new cupcake holders and candy wraps to mix and match with our flower vases!

The wraps are designed to fit nearly any size muffin top to allow beautiful frosting designs to have center stage.

We’ll have more pictures and details soon, but if you just can’t wait, you can always write or call us. In the meantime we can’t seem to stop experimenting. We added a plain white baking cup and started filling them with nuts, cookies, dipping sauces and chocolates. The kids want to try Jello next.

After weeks of rain, the sun finally came out in Seattle and streamed in the windows of this beautiful old church. Lucky for us, Zac, invited us to come take a few pictures before the wedding. We loved the fuchsia roses paired with the star gazer lilies and the fragrance – pure heaven! Thank you Zac.

Tracy Park has a flare for creating elegant flowers. She’s really good at what she does and manages to make every wedding look amazingly spectacular. No detail is overlooked, look how she’s decorated the aisle chairs with flowers that do double-duty as reception flowers. That’s probably why her floral studio is named Affordable Elegance, her designs are a recipe for perfection.

Seattle’s Uptown Metropolitan Market floral department created this sweet little garden of flowers with a variety of potted plants in CathysWraps whimsical vases.

Looking for budget-friendly ideas for Mother’s Day gifts that children can give?

Everybody loves flowers and small 4 inch bedding plants make perfect budget friendly gifts. Primroses, pansies, gerbera daisies and petunias are all great choices. Transfer a plant into a CathysWraps pot and add a gift tag. Kids can surprise Mom with flowers for brunch and plant flowers for her that afternoon.

To mothers, want to be mothers and birth mothers . . . many blessings this coming Mother’s Day.

Looking for Budget Wedding Flowers and easy DIY wedding flowers ideas? If so, you might want to hang flowers down the aisles that can Do Double-Duty as centerpieces and favors. Wedding flowers can easily be transported to the reception and reused as centerpieces on tables, the bar area, the powder rooms, even windows and mirrors with suction cups.

Ideas: Group small floral arrangements to create one large table setting. Create centerpieces for Bridal Showers, Baby Showers and Birthday Parties in CathysWraps whimsical pots and send the flowers home as party favors. Make place cards and hostess gifts by adding a coordinating tag with guests names and special messages.

Here we used mix-matched glass plates, parfait cups and glasses from a local thrift shop to create tiers of flowers. The glass tiers can be set up ahead of time and the flowers added just before the guests arrive.

We love flowers that are beautiful, versatile and practical.

Laura and Shawn sent us this picture of their outdoor wedding. The garden setting was naturally beautiful so they didn’t need many flowers. Laura’s mother arranged white hydrangeas in CathysWraps vases, adding ribbon to hang from shepherds hooks and later the wedding aisle flowers were reused as centerpieces and favors.

To  create:
12 CathysWraps Vases
12 white hydrangeas (myrtle greenery optional)
12 white ribbons cut into 24 inch lengths

Nestle the pot into the decorative wrap. Punch 2 holes into both pot & wrap at pre-perforated circles with a hole punch. Set wrap aside to create floral frog by adding tape in a crisscross pattern to the rim of the pot. Trim hydrangeas to approximately 4-6 inches and cut a 1 inch slit into stem for water absorbtion. Arrange. Slip ribbon through both wrap & pot, knot ends and slip over shepherds hook.

Pink roses and white hydrangeas graced the wedding aisles of Anne’s traditional church wedding. The flowers were secured to the pews with Doey’s Pew Clips and did double-duty as reception centerpieces.

Florist Kenda Farnsworth, of Northwest Wedding and Event in Portland, OR shares how to re-create this look. ”I free-formed the flowers into CathysWraps vases by making a clear tape grid on the top of the vase to keep the flowers in place and cut the stems short to fit the depth of the vase. A hand tied bouquet could also work. I carefully transported the flowers to the church already in place.” I loved the aisle vases, they are a fresh idea to a old tradition of putting flowers down the aisle.” Photos by Joey Bloom, of InBloom Photography in Portland, OR.

If you’d like to share your ideas, send us a photo and we’ll post it here.

Every year at Thanksgiving, the Magnolia Chamber of Commerce, hosts A Magnolia Village Open House and local florist, Katy Breen, owner of Katy’s Daisies rose to the occasion. She invited the neighborhood to stop by and make holiday centerpieces and just look at all these happy faces. It was a delightful evening!

Do-it-yourself Holiday Centerpieces and Gift Ideas

Dress up 4 inch plants and topiaries in whimsical pots. Add a coordinating tag and you have a super-easy hostess gift. This Red Kalanchoe and Ivy Topiary came from a local nursery and were simply re-potted into one of our pots. Choose from 2 reversible patterns, polka dots or floral, and fold the decorative wrap together. Add a tag and tuck the pot into the wrap.

What You’ll NEED:

One 4 inch potted plant from your local nursery or grocery store.
One CathysWraps pot and decorative sleeve.
One coordinating gift tag, optional.
Handful of moss.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Re-pot your 4 inch holiday plant or mini tree into our pot, wipe away any dirt.

Fold the decorative wrap together, pop open the perforated circle to tie on the gift tag and nestle the pot in the wrap. If you prefer fresh flowers, make a little Mussie Tussie Bouquet, tie off with string or rubber band, trim stems short and add water. Note: Our wraps are water resistant but it’s best to keep them dry.

What do you all think, would you like to receive this as a hostess gift?