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"Hello this is Jenny with simple beautiful crafts on behalf of expertvillage.com. If you have been looking for just that right painting to hang above your couch and you have not been able to find it yet I have a suggestion for you. You might go to the fabric store or to the craft store and find some silk flowers that would pick up the colors in your couch. I would recommend one or two colors. After you have found that delightful way to put them in a shadow box and hang them about your couch to draw out that colors those colors would to be to use something like this CD case on another type of shelving. It is very simple to do you just want to take a bunch of flowers and make sure that they are thick enough that you don't have to do anything but just simply stick them in a box. So when you first put them in if they don't seem to be quiet thick enough just add to it until you have the thickness that you want and pull them to your box leaving just a little bit of the blossom hang out and then you might do that with the other color. Now you can either have two colors and make them in bunches of three or you can add some of the first color to your end color and you still have the two colors but you have them in more butches. You decide how you like it and what look you like of course and then once you have decided that and they are thick enough of course you would have this hanging out the back. But if you just take a pair of pliers that have a wire cutter in it and put your blossom into your wire cutter way up at the top and press you would clip it off and it would only be just this long and it would fit easily into your shadow box. I would recommend waiting until you have arrange your flowers and filled up your boxes as full as you want it before you decide to cut something off. Because you may decide it need just one more blossom. That is a unique way to find something to hang something above your couch to pull out the colors."
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