The way our wedding reception was set up, the dining tables were spread between two rooms. The Main Room where the wedding party was seated, we placed the rose centerpieces. In the next room we did teapot centerpieces. Now, I forgot to get step by step photos explaining how I made them. BUT I do remember the process! So, I can still explain it in case you are interested in doing similar centerpieces. YOU WILL NEED: *Tea Pots *E6000 *Cake Circles *Books You're okay with Sacrificing *Silk Flowers *Decoupage and sponge brush *Styrofoam Cylinders *Darice Pearl Strands I went on Ebay and bought a "Lot of Books". It was the cheapest option I could find where all the books had an old antique look... without smelling like mold and dust. And as a book lover, this was difficult but I had to do it. You're going to take your decoupage and really cover the edges of the books. Open the pages and make sure the paste gets in there. The idea is to seal the books so that they don't open back up. I coated their pages with the decoupage and then wrapped them in saran wrap and made sure I had something heavy set on top of them. I let them sit for 24 hours before I unwrapped them. Once you're happy with the sealing of the pages, pick the ones you want stacked together and use your E6000 to glue them cover to cover. I wanted mine slightly off center so make sure you're gluing them where you want them to be. Now, once again, I HATE Styrofoam so my mother actually helped with these. She picked up some foam cylinders and made some mini floral designs. We then stuck these in the teapots. You may a have to cut down the cylinders, depending on the size of your teapots. I forgot to get pictures of these so this is the photo from the Michaels website (not trying to take credit for the photo, don't come for me Michaels, lol.) We used our E6000 to glue the books to the Cake Circles (you can see those in the first photo). And then you're also going to use the E6000 to glue the teapot to the cover of the books. As an added touch I took Darice Pearl Strands and glued them in various spots hanging off the book covers. I also took flower petals from the leftover flowers and glued a few down to make it look like the flowers had been dropping petals. I found our teapots at good wills, salvation armies, home-goods, etc. Sometimes we added the teapot lid to the base, a sugar pot that matches the teapot, and one time a teacup. Which of course I painted a chipped line on one in honor of the Beauty and the Beast theme. This is super simple but basically involves a lot of glue and messing with it till you're happy with how they look. Here's a slide show with all the teapot centerpieces!
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