A hanging centerpiece using photos and branches.

Just the other day I wrote about how I needed to come up with a centerpiece for our annual Mother's Day Brunch.  I didn't have a lot of time, and I never want to spend a lot of money, so here's what I came up with...

 

 This book page chandelier and the photos of this beautiful tree served as my inspiration.

I chose 3 images from one flowering tree:

A big branch fell in our yard during the last storm.  Handsome Hubby had put it by our woodpile, but fortunately he had not yet cut it up.  (Hooray for free sticks and branches!)  I had my local FedEx-Kinkos print up about 20 copies of each image. (Much easier and cheaper than using my own ink cartridges and printing them at home.)

I wanted them to have the image on both sides.  I took some fishing line and taped it to the back of the paper, then added double-stick tape and sandwiched the line in-between the two images.

Handsome Hubby hung the branch from the top of our patio cover and then simply looped the photos over the branch.  I had the photos with the most sky near the top, only a little sky in the middle and just a close up of the blossoms near the bottom.

My tablecloth this year was literally a drop cloth and I added a champagne bucket filled with Bougainvillea clippings from my yard.  The photo printing cost about $25 but I already had everything else.  Pretty affordable.  I don't know that I loved the end result, but I liked it well enough.
My guests thought it was great... and in the end, isn't that what matters the most?

I hope everyone had a lovely Mother's Day.

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