DIY Paper Spider Orchids
I am very afraid of spiders. Even in a nature documentary, they send me into a full-body gasp, yelp, and shudder. So it was with some trepidation that I began researching both spider orchids and spider plants in the same week, scanning Google image and Pinterest results, hoping not to encounter any stray arachnid pics. […]
I am very afraid of spiders. Even in a nature documentary, they send me into a full-body gasp, yelp, and shudder. So it was with some trepidation that I began researching both spider orchids and spider plants in the same week, scanning Google image and Pinterest results, hoping not to encounter any stray arachnid pics.
I assumed I would be in the clear once I started making the paper versions of the spider (or brassica) orchids. And I was… Until I got all the petals on the first flower and felt a sudden rush of ?get it off! Get it off!? I kept the stems-in-progress on the dresser beside the television, which was a bad idea. When I watched a movie with my husband that night, they kept hovering in my peripheral vision, startling me over and over again. So they were moved to the kitchen, which didn?t prevent them from haunting my dreams. But maybe it takes an arachnophobe to truly appreciate the creepy beauty of brassica orchids ? the dark, skinny petals that bear a tarantula-knee pattern, their habit of hanging in space like spiders in a web. Don?t let me scare you off, though: these blooms are fun to make and even more fun to arrange. They add ...
I am very afraid of spiders. Even in a nature documentary, they send me into a full-body gasp, yelp, and shudder. So it was with some trepidation that I began researching both spider orchids and spider plants in the same week, scanning Google image and Pinterest results, hoping not to encounter any stray arachnid pics.
I assumed I would be in the clear once I started making the paper versions of the spider (or brassica) orchids. And I was… Until I got all the petals on the first flower and felt a sudden rush of ?get it off! Get it off!? I kept the stems-in-progress on the dresser beside the television, which was a bad idea. When I watched a movie with my husband that night, they kept hovering in my peripheral vision, startling me over and over again. So they were moved to the kitchen, which didn?t prevent them from haunting my dreams. But maybe it takes an arachnophobe to truly appreciate the creepy beauty of brassica orchids ? the dark, skinny petals that bear a tarantula-knee pattern, their habit of hanging in space like spiders in a web. Don?t let me scare you off, though: these blooms are fun to make and even more fun to arrange. They add ...
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