Grow Love

The thing about our current studio is that it's not quite a studio. It consists of a spare bedroom or "stuff room" as my family calls it, and our back garden. While it isn't ideal, and it's only a temporary arrangement, it definitely teaches us how to be resourceful, and to be thankful for the space we have. There are days when the garden space is just dreamy, though. It also leads to some pretty cool ideas, like these seed bomb wedding favours. :)

Kevin and I are getting married in a couple of weeks, and we decided fairly early on in the planning (which started about a week ago) that we wanted to keep things as sweet, easy, natural and handmade as possible. I happened upon a photo of seed bomb favors on Pinterest recently, and fell in love. I can't stop pinning and tweeting different seed bomb ideas... and of course we had to try our own! Which brings me to my adventure in chadon beni seed bomb recycled paper.

Got this bag full of dried chadon beni from my mom. Smells incredible.

... and wildflowers. Because in all things, you need wildflowers.

My paper pulp, with chadon beni seeds, a mixture of petals, brown paper, patterned scraps left over from notebook-making etc. All kinds of goodness. Note the fancy equipment: my grandmother's enamel bowl.

I found an old Botany book in a stack of books to throw away recently. Throwing away books is wrong, so wrong. I cut out and tore off bits of plant illustrations and integrated them into the pulp so that they will show through.

A few hours later....

My chadon beni recycled seed paper hearts. <3
Going to make a few different colours and mix them up.

Going to tear up the scraps and return them to the pulp... Nothing wasted!

More posts about these experiments to come. 

~Dani