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Extra Features and Video Online FloristsReview.com R E A D O N L I N E 47 Extra Features and Video Online FloristsReview.com R E A D O N L I N E 47 Step-By-Step HARD GOODS • Dolomite Pot Set (74535) from Melrose International • Day of the Dead cupcake topper • OASIS ® Floral Foam Maxlife • OASIS ™ Bind Wire • DESIGN MASTER Brilliant Gold COLORTOOL ® Spray • DESIGN MASTER Flat Black COLORTOOL ® Spray • Wire wreath ring • OASIS ™ Florist Wire • Wood picks BOTANICALS • Rosa x hybrid (hybrid tea rose) • Leucadendron laureolum x salignum 'Safari Sunset' • Dianthus caryophyllus (carnation) • Chrysanthemum x morifolium (daisy spray mums) • Hypericum androsaemum (St. John's wort, tutsan) • Hypnum spp. (sheet moss) • Eucalyptus spp. (seeded eucalypt, seeded gum tree) • Livistona chinensis, dried (Chinese fan palm) • Triticum aestivum, dried (wheat) • Cactaceae family (cactus) • Cucurbita pepo (mini pumpkins) • Quercus spp. (acorns) STEP 6 Finish by adding accents—like candles, fruit, component containers, and other theme décor—to the display. STEP 1 Create a "spider-web" structure using a wire wreath frame. Tie lengths of paper-covered wire across the base in a spider web form. Then glue acorns, moss and fall accents around the rim of the wire wreath base. STEP 2 Spray-paint seeded Eucalyptus black, and spray-paint dried fan-palm leaves gold. STEP 3 Attach heavy-gauge wires or wired wood picks to one section of the structure, and insert them into the floral foam in a container so that the structure is upright. Arrange flowers through the structure. Pierce the bases of mini pumpkins with wood picks, secure the picks with hot glue, and arrange them into the design. STEP 4 Insert a plastic sugar-skull (calavera) cupcake topper into center of a carnation (or two). Then arrange a cluster of carnations into the design. STEP 5 String individual Hypericum berries onto a length of 24-gauge floral wire, to create a berry "garland." Attach a wood pick to each end of the wire, and insert the garland into the design in a playful yet artistic manner. Materials