Well, I admit that my mind is too busy and I just can’t allow it to be idle.

Recently I found quite a number of pretty things made of paper. Many of them are very practical to do it yourself at home and would be a great decoration to add a bit of touch into your daily life.

I highly recommend this one — paper rose I found at dozidesign. She has written up a detailed tutorial to show you how to make them. I had so much fun making them myself. It’s easy, cheap but so beautiful. It’s a décor that costs you almost nothing but would last forever.

I used one sheet of dark red A4 printing paper (about 80 -85g weight) and it works quite nicely. I actually picked up some branches outside yesterday afternoon on the way home. Yes, I am probably a very odd (if not crazy) person. I felt like I was like a mother bird gathering all the branches to bring them back to the nest but hey, if you seriously look outside, you will find plenty of beautiful branches on the ground and they look much better and more natural than those sold in the shops.

I don’t have any great tips on how to roll the paper, but I have realised that apart from using varied sizes of paper to make roses, you can also alter the spiral shape, such as drawing a square spiral instead of a round spiral, which actually gives the final effect more pointing petal-liked, rather than just a spool of rolled paper. You can compare the difference from my photos. I reckon that it makes a rose looks more like a real rose. But maybe different people have different opinions on this one. It’s totally up to you.

However, if you do using square spiral, rolling is a bit tricky, you probably will end up with a bigger sized rose and not so much sticking up together like those round ones. But I believe that you will figure out your own way to roll it up and once you did, it looks just perfect.

You know, I am very bad at flower arrangement (I actually have some reputation and history known by my husband), but with this one, no matter what you come up with, it always looks gorgeous. Remember: You don’t really need many flowers to make it work – “Less is more”.