Wearing baby shower corsages are a really cute way to celebrate and honor the upcoming arrival of a new baby. Although, you can easily buy baby shower corsages, there is a lot of benefits to creating them yourself.
The first benefit of creating your own baby shower corsages is the fact that you don't have to buy any. Making your corsages will make it a whole lot easier on your budget, especially if you want a corsage for every guest.
Another great benefit of creating your own baby shower corsages is that you can include the colors of the baby shower theme, or even personalize the corsages. This is great for adding a special detail or touch that your guests will love and appreciate.
Creating your own baby shower corsages is also something really fun. You will enjoy being able to give your guests something that is gorgeous and that you've made with your own two hands. Here are a couple of really cute ideas for baby shower corsages.
Lily baby shower corsage:
You will need:
- 1 large white lily for each corsage. (Try the local florist.)
- A package of florist's wire. (Also try the florist shop.)
- 2 small cuttings of baby ivy vines. (Try the local florist.)
- A length of pretty ribbon for a bow. (You can get this from a craft store.)
- A pin to hold the corsage on.
Cut the stem on the lily to about 2 to 3 inches long. Use the florist's wire to bundle the ivy with the lily in a pretty way. Try an ivy vine on each side of the lily. Then tie on a pretty bow with the ribbon. You will use the pin to place it on a guest's blouse. This is a really pretty baby shower corsage. Remember to store it in the fridge until time to use it.
Funny baby shower corsage:
You will need:
- A tiny packet of baby wipes.
- A clothespin.
- Ribbon for little bows.
- A pin to fasten the baby shower corsage on.
This is a funny idea you can use as a joke for the Mom-to be. You will be making a 'changing time' helper. Open the baby wipes and pull a few through the little opening. You can rearrange them a bit to make them look like a flower.
Fasten the clothespin on the package of wipes so Mom-to be can access it instantly if she needs to clothespin her nose! You can add little bows made out of the ribbons. Pin this on the new mother's shirt for a great laugh.
Making your own baby shower corsages is a fun and easy way to make sure they look exactly like you want them to. Visiting a craft store is a great way to get some wonderful ideas.
Your guests will enjoy them, and if they're not fresh flower corsages, they will make a great memento that your guests can keep forever.
How to Make Homemade Baby Shower CorsagesCorsets have never fallen completely out of fashion but in the last decade they have really been thrust back into the limelight by the flurry of infamous designers tackling the iconic garment and making it their own. More designers are now sending their beautifully sewn creations strutting off down the catwalk. Not to mention the bevy of beautiful starlet donning the corset for everything from rock concerts to red carpet walks.
But behind the big designer fashion houses who makes all these corsets? Who draft the corset patterns and sew on the frills, feathers and sequins? Well one name stands proud of all others - Mr Pearl, who is as exotic in character as his corsets are in design. With an 18 inch waist sculpted using corsets made by his own hand his silhouette is alarmingly unnatural. An English gentleman born in Africa and originally named Mark Pullin, Mr Pearl is a reserved man now residing in Paris working for the numerous couture houses that require his expert corsetry skills. Now in his forties he has been in the fashion industry longer than any other corset maker and is arguably the best Corsetiere in the world. Mr Pearls first experience of tightlacing came at an early age helping his grandmother lace her corsets. He started corset training himself in his early thirties having been inspired by another famous male tightlacer Fakir Musafar. Mr Pearl says he is not interested in fashion but is instead preoccupied by the idea of the ideal figure: "Corsetry presents endless, almost unobtainable possibilities, it could always be tighter, more beautiful, longer in the front. The limit is physical - outward appearances are endless." - Mr Pearl
Corsets from Mr Pearl are available to the general public but they run into the thousands like any couture garment, wearers of his work include Beyonce and Dita Von Teese. More impressive than the individuals in his corsets though are the designers he has worked for. The big fashion houses he has turned his hand to demand some exotic and challenging corseted garments. Mr Pearl has a team of hard working couture corset makers and several people work on any one piece. He has worked in fabric, metal, sequins and various other exotic materials such as resins. My favorite Mr Pearl creations include the little number worn by Dita Von Teese at the Gaultier autumn winter '10 catwalk show with its black skeletal ribcage and spinal column over a pale skin toned corset, the beautiful pastel pink Sophie Dahl Gaultier dress of spring summer '10 with its reams of down-to-the-floor ribbon lacing and the Metal 'Biker' Corset made for Thierry Mugler with its flame paint work and wing mirrors!
Mr Pearl - A Biography of a Corsetiere To The Stars
