Early Spring Blooms at Chicago Botanic Garden

A recent walk around the Chicago Botanic Garden revealed that flowers are popping up! Blooms are gracing both trees and other plants.

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Simple Tissue Paper Flowers {Reuse that Tissue Paper}

Ok, so you all know that I can be pretty thrifty and I don't like to throw things away. Well, I have mounds--and I mean mounds--of tissue paper from random gifts and purchases. I do reuse this tissue paper in other gifts as well as for packing. However, my supply has very much outstretched the demand. With my daughter home on Monday for the holiday, we decided to craft some tissue paper flowers.

The project was very easy to do. I actually used tissue paper that was already a bit crinkly--you know the stuff that would look a little too much "used" in another gift bag. We cut ten rectangles out of the desired tissue paper. (Each rectangle is the same size.)

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