News — silver plate

On a recent pass through the Dorcas Thrift Shop in Cary, NC, I found a striking silver plated champagne cooler, badly tarnished but otherwise in good condition. It needed a huge arrangement of flowers, and I had been looking for a container for a set of recycled remnants. The first step was to make sure the flowers I had created would work with the container. I protected the bottom of the champagne cooler so that the wire stems would not scratch the silver plate, and loosely grouped a selection of flowers. (The vivid magenta flowers in the picture above didn't...