Foraged Bouquets

 So I had set the goal of making a bouquet from something I had foraged outside every week this year. I was also hoping to blog about it. That hasn't gone to terribly well so far. I have completely foraged 4 bouquets so far and partially foraged a couple more. I did share my pine cone bouquet and the bouquet I was able to gather while in St. Thomas (that did feel a little cheating to be in the tropics in February to gather a bouquet :-). 

  Before I had gone I had stopped by the side of the road one day and gathered a bunch of Highbush Cranberry branches with berries on them. I had kept noticed this large row of them as I drove by (they weren't by anybody's house or anything) and the bright red looked so pretty against the snow. I have been surprised that the birds haven't eaten them. Anyway I picked some. The stems holding the berries were a little fragile and the berries a little squishy but if you didn't mess with them to much they made a fun decoration for our table.
we had them there for around a week. I don't think I would really recommend using them (after being frozen anyway) for a wedding bouquet but you could if you wanted to.

This was my "Wedding bouquet" look with some white lace around the bottom.

 I did a woodsy theme at the Bridal show this year. I ordered flowers in for that but I also used some foraged items. In the bouquet above I had acorns that had been gathered, lichen from the birch trees and some highbush cranberry twigs that I had stuck in water and the leaves had sprouted on them. Which is a fun thing to do if you are feeling a little impatient for Spring to arrive. Cut off some sort of twig/branch around your place, stick it in water and it will probably start sending out leaves. Maybe even flowers.

 This bouquet had branches in it that I had gathered from our woods.

This centerpiece boasts  branches, wood pieces, a little canoe that Aaron made out of birchbark, moss, pinecones, a bird's nest, sweet gum balls (found when in North Carolina and saved) and acorns - all foraged. It is a super cheap way to make a centerpiece, the other parts were repurposed glass bottles and 3 stems of flowers and a little greenery.

 We still have very, very tall stacks of snow (we got around 6 more inches on Sunday) but it is melting some now. Flowers are a ways off but there is always beauty to be found.

  I am curious what is going on where you live - do you have things growing already or do you still have a lot of snow too?