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Mushrooms on sticks in a green and white design.

Try these items as containers for a change :—

Goldfish bowls or gas light globes.

Silver entree dishes, sauceboats, platters and loving cups.

Baskets, birdcages and painted hanging wire baskets.

Odd tea pots or choice cups and saucers.

Painted glucose or cocoa fins. Split and roll edges back.

Wooden sabots with tin lining.

Bark wood filled with damp moss.

Old fashioned sweet jars or even hurricane lamp globes.

Scooped out marrows, melons and gourds for country material.

Tankards or small copper jugs for wall arrangements.

If you are caught without a holder, try using a large potato cut in half.Press this to the base of the dish and insert the flowers or leaves in thepotato. If necessary make holes first.