DIY Project: Violet Petals
It’s Day three (and the last day) of our DIY contest! We have so many great projects for you to devour today…from send off bells to custom bottles of bbq, each is completely unique and completely fabulous. First up, are these crystallized petals of violets crafted by Julie…
Here is the breakdown and instructions…
I am a future bride from Toulouse, France. We’ll marry on May the 9th in Tarbes, a town near Pyrénées, and we have are using purple and anise green as our wedding colors. For favors, we choose crystallised petals of violets because it is a specialty from Toulouse and we wanted our families to discover it!
Materials
- The required number of square pots of glass with cork stopperI
- Some raffia
- A label with your names and wedding date printed on it (you can use microsoft word to set these up and just print them on heavy weight card stock, punching a hole in the top left corner.
- Some petals of crystallized violets and bags of crystallized pinks for variation in color
Instructions
1. 1. Buy square pots of glass with cork stopper from airdeco.fr (I bought them for a total of 115€ for 150 square pots and they offered me the shipping costs)
2. 2. Filled them with petals of crystallized violets and bays of crystallized pinks (I got them in Un décor se crée ’s shop, crystallized violets are about 80€ the kilo, and crystallized pinks about 20€ the kilo)
3. 3. Using a perforator, punch a hole in the corner of the label and pass the raffia in it
4. 4. Then, roll up the raffia around the pot and put the label on the front
Voilà!
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Some of you are probably wondering what the American equivalents are of the pricing and of course, where to buy these products domestically. If you are are interested, leave a comment and I will try to source them here. So much more to come!
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I really like this idea! You can buy crystallized/candied violets here in American pricing: http://markethallfoods.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=113&gclid=CNP08umjw5kCFRlcagodYF-nuw
Or you can make them yourself: http://www.recipezaar.com/Crystallized-Violets-126162
Haaaaan des violettes de Toulouse ! I love the idea of local goodies for favours ;-) but there's none where I'm getting married... :-( (although I'm still playing with the idea of buying a bunch of miniature mustard pots for doubling my favors !).
Beautiful Julie, and I'm getting married on the same day as you are ;) (in the Ain department... and I live in Dijon hence the mustard idea ;-))
that is a great idea for wedding favors.
This is such a lovely idea!
Thank you so much Abby for publishing my DIY project!
I really appreciate this wedding site that gives me so much inspiration!
Hello AnnC! I thought it was a good idea offering "violettes de Toulouse" as you say! They are so famous here! I have some cousins from Dijon too. Indeed I think you could offer miniature mustard pots! It's really a good idea! And many people love mustard! I love mustard!
I love how unique and personal this favor idea is! Very well done! I love the little glass jars...
vote!
Vote ;-)
vote! ;) ;) ;) ;) :)
Vote vote vote !!!!
You know what ? You're the Best !!
It's a great idea :)/In Cherbourg (THE no man's land of France!)we've got one very special speciality but I think that you can't do anything whith it....a little girl call it "oh!des crottes de mouettes!", je n ose pas la faire en anglais ils vont penser que je suis dingue,mais chez nous c est vrai à part le don indeniable des mouettes pour repeindre un decor, on voit pas de specialité locale!
Bref, excellente idée, en plus c est genial de profiter de la couleur de la specialité pour en faire un theme plus general pour le jour J.
Donc il faudrait que je mette un peu de violet ou d anis dans ma tenue pour être raccord ??
Bye , JE VOTE JULIE.
vraiemnt trop jolie !!!!!!!!!!!!
Je re-vote pour cette belle et bonne idée!
It is my daughter.....
Vote!!
VOTE!
C'est trop joli, original et ca sera délicieux!! Mmmmmmm!!!! Trop bien!
Bisous
Je vote pour Julie!!
Bisous!!
evelyne
vote!
Je suis trôt fière de toi, ma fille!
Il est évident que je vote pour Julie, ma fille...
Je peux même le faire encore une fois...
What a beautiful idea. One woman, one vote !!!
Je vote pour vous les petits
Les violettes sont mes concurrentes, mais JE VOTE pour !!!!!!!!!!
Mamamn a dit il faut voter pour Julie et Adrien . JE VOTE
Aujourd'hui aussi je vote pour Julie, encore !
merci beaucoup les copains! ;)
VOTE VOTE VOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Voté pour Julie la cop's de Marie
VOTE (écrit en anglais)
je vote mais ça va tourner comme le dossier TIBERI à la ville de Paris
lol!
TROP JOLIE ZULIE §!!!!!!!
Moi aussi c 'est évident je vote pour "ma future belle fille"
bisous
vote vote vote !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vote ! ma soeur elle est trop forte!
vote !
trop forts les zouzous
please please if someone knows where i can buy these jars in the US, let me know! i would love to do this for my wedding.