Flower Crown

For Baby #3's newborn photo session I want all three girls to have flower crowns. The problem is that I think fake flowers look, well, fake. Flower crowns done by a florist (even for little girls) are about $40 here. So today I decided to see how hard it would be to make one myself.

I just used floral wire, floral tape, and white jasmine flowers that are in our backyard. It took about 15 minutes to make the crown (that I fit to my size head, but it worked out fine on Pippa and Roxy, too).

Results:

Pippa wanted to take a photo of me wearing the crown.

Pretty adorable, right?! The problem is that after about 3 hours the jasmine flowers started turning brown and they looked totally dead by about 6 hours. I was hoping that I could make the flower crowns the night before the photo shoot. They might last longer in the fridge, or another kind of flower might last longer, but I DO know that ain't nobody got time to make 3 flower crowns the morning of a photo shoot when said photo shoot will probably begin at 8 a.m. So we will just see - maybe I'll find some fake flowers that don't look so fake...