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Blue Floral Crown

I made a large blue flower head piece last month, because I wanted to shoot with one and I did not want to buy one.   The head piece was easy to make, and consists of a wide plastic headband, a medium Styrofoam ball cut in half, three little Styrofoam cones, hot glue, and fake flowers (hydrangeas and wisteria). The key to making the head piece was having a basic picture in my mind of what I wanted, which was fluffy with long flowers dripping off the ends.   I used the leaves from the flowers to break up the blue, create a crown piece and frame the face when it is worn.   Now I did shoot with the head piece in April at the Spring Shoot on the Farm, however I also wanted to do a more studio centric shoot with it.   However, before the studio shoot I made a few adjustments to the head piece by adding more long flowers (wisteria) to the sides to eliminate the gap I was seeing during the farm shoot.   This made it larger and gave it a bit more length which I beli...