A Rose ... pour vous ...

Assalaamu Alaikum :)

To keep my mind off of the loss of my beloved fish ... my young cousin and I decided to be creative. It was so much fun that I thought I would share the joy with the rest of my blog-pals. Follow each step and try it yourself! I know you'll have the time *evil laughter*

~ * Tissue Rose * ~

Step One:

Get yourself a 3 ply facial tissue

Step Two:

Using the corner of the tissue, separate each of the tissue pieces from one another

Step Three:

3 pieces completely separated

Step Four:

Stack each of the pieces back on top of one another

Step Five:

Bring each end together as a half from the center

Step Six:

Take one corner and overlap a bit on top of one another right until the end

(like you would do if you were to make a paper fan)

Step Seven:

Like so, it should be scrunched up in this fashion

Step Eight:

Twist the bottom to make a stem

Step Nine:

Now the concentration is on the rest of the soon-to-be rose! It is time to make the petals so begin to carefully separate each of the tissue ply's from all sides (bottom, middle, top)

Step Ten:

Here's another view of where you should be going with this. Use your imagination, make it work so that the petals begin to resemble a rose!

Step Eleven:

Try to join each end together so that it is more circular (may be a toughie)

Step Twelve:

There is the finished product! Now don't tell me it looks like a scrunched up tissue ball *grr*

Really, it's a lot of fun working on this. My cousin walked in on us making these and she was really impressed and thought it was quite cute. So she wants us to make them as decoration pieces for her wedding next year, insha'Allah. Aww. I will use coloured tissue paper with those of course, and make it more creative and attractive ;)

This is my life. Alhamdulillah.