I was asked by the Reverend Sue Browning at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Easton, Maryland to spruce up the sanctuary with the idea of celebrating the new Fall season. After a quick perusal of Pinterest, I gathered some images together and made a design plan. Ish. I decided to create circle “chandeliers” which would hang underneath three of the existing candle chandeliers in the space. These were a few of the images I began to obsess over recreating to festoon my hanging circles.
Map circle garlands
Tissue tassles
Vertical Flowers Garlands
And this is what I ended up with.
I used pieces of a grapevine wreath for the circle base and only spent a few dollars required to buy paint to spray them white.
The rest of the supplies like tissue paper, crêpe paper, maps from old road atlases, and the brown/kraft paper flowers, plus assorted scraps of paper (recognize Amazon wrapping paper?) were all in my possession. I just knew I’d need them someday.
Yes, I have lots of old ribbons too. So I began to produce quantities of the garlands and the poms to use. If I never made another tissue paper pom, it would still never make up for the quantity of pom making I can’t erase from my memory for this project.
After mostly pre-assembling the paper chandeliers and wrapping them up in sheets to go, the installation consisted of a giant ladder called a ‘Little Giant’, and an assist from my gal Alyssa Bennett, and about three and a half hours on a Friday night.
They make me so very happy.
And they made Rev Sue and a bunch of other folks happy too. Aesthetics win. Yay !!!
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And they are still beautiful! Hope we can leave them up ’til the Revue!
Thanks Judy! I think that’s a fine plan. Going to have to bring the ladder out for that event anyway.
Love Ya’,
Shalagh
love them!
Beautiful, celebratory chandeliers and garlands! The last photo really shows how they complement the lovely wall hanging. Such a nice feeling to add to the sanctuary gatherings.
Yes Dawn and Thank You. A few other people have told me the very same. Matching the wall hanging was quite unintentional and I quite agree, it’s very celebratory.