As of this week, no building has started yet. However, I went to the crafts section of Walmart last weekend (as we hadn't kept any leftover Halloween spiderweb material from last year) for lace, only to find tulle in such a perfect shade of off-white (my mom called it "champagne") that I got that instead. I'll have to fold it up a few times to get the right opacity, but it'll be worth it! Also, I went "acorn hunting" this afternoon, only to discover that we have no oak trees (and, by default, no acorns) in the woods behind my house. (Oops.) I did find some nice pinecones, though, and I picked up a lot of the azaleas that have fallen off our bushes in the past week or two. The willow branches above were also from my yard. I found plenty of nice leaves and flowers back there, but I don't want to pick them now, only to have them be dead two weeks from now when I'm ready to turn the project in. (That will come sometime after this week's, maybe even next week's, progress post. In the meantime, I have to figure out how everything will fit in the tulle.)
Sometime in the next week, I want to start building the veil. Since I wound up buying way more tulle than I actually needed (again, oops - but at least I have extra material for potential future projects), I have plenty to experiment with. The pinecones will be the most difficult, I think - they're spiky, and will require some *fun* maneuvering to avoid tearing the tulle. After the veil itself, the leaf/flower crown will be last - though I plan on using the willow branches to shape the base, so that the veil has something to attach to while I'm building it, I don't want to build the crown itself because just about everything in that crown except for a few things is currently alive and growing, and again, I don't want to collect it now only to have it die before it even gets used.
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