Weed Centerpieces

Strange as it sounds they turned out awesome!  My good friend Candace's sister got married the week before Thanksgiving and needed some last minute centerpieces for their luncheon tables. . . so Candace and I got creative.  It had just snowed but we wandered around the country side, or the gravel pit up by my parents' house, and cut a huge variety of weeds to put together.

My house became a flower shop that I literally had to sweep up before I could vacuum when it was all over but who cares?!  And I may have gotten a little crazy the night before the luncheon and made a stop at Home Depot and an hour later left with wood and spray paint and tinted glaze.  Luckily my friend Natali rescued me at 10:00 after I told her my dad was cutting wood for me.  We were out in 20 degree weather spray painting, made a trip to Wal Mart for burlap, and running the power sander (pretty sure my neighbors hate me).  But the finished product was great:

And if only we'd known sooner, as we were setting up I asked if we could light the candles and they said if there was at least an inch of glass over the wick-why didn't we think of that!  Now I know where I get my crazy ideas from-my mom suggested going to the store and getting votive candle holders. . . 30 minutes before the luncheon started.  And I nearly did it.  It would have made it look so great.  But it was already great.  Better than we'd planned.  So we didn't.  And what would I have done with 32 glass votive holders when the luncheon was over?