| Candy bouquets make great centerpieces or
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| | with your theme such as fruit bon-bons in
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| gifts for just about any occasion. Here
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| | pastel wrappers for Mother's Day or Easter
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| are some instructions for creating your
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| | and red/white hard peppermint candies for
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| own candy topiary bouquet in either a
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| | Christmas. Take a metal floral pin and
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| flower pot or mug.1. Either buy/find a
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| | stick it through the end of the candy
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| flowerpot or mug to match your theme. For
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| | wrapper (just outside the twisted end) and
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| instance, for Mother's Day, you might want
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| | then stick the floral pin with the
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| to use a flowerpot or mug with a Spring
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| | attached candy on to the round Styrofoam
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| floral theme.2. If you are using a mug,
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| | topiary ball. Keep repeating this process
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| you will want to buy a piece of floral
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| | until the entire ball is covered with hard
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| foam (to cut to size and put inside the
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| | candies and you can't see any Styrofoam
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| mug base), a dowel rod (to stick in the
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| | peeking through.5. To dress up the candy
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| base and form the topiary) and a Styrofoam
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| | bouquet, you can floral pin ribbons or
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| ball (to stick at the end of the dowel rod
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| | small silk flowers between some of the
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| and form the upper end of the topiary).
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| | hard candies. Also, tie pieces of ribbon
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| If you are using a flower pot, you can buy
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| | around the dowel right below the Styrofoam
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| the supplies described for the mug or you
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| | ball. It looks great if you leave the
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| can buy one of the pre-made topiary forms
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| | ribbon tails long enough to hang down and
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| that set directly in the flowerpot. I've
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| | disguise the wood dowel. I recommend
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| seen these forms with a Styrofoam
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| | either using curling ribbon or 1/2" wide
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| pot-shaped base and Styrofoam ball top at
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| | organza ribbon for this task.You've
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| Michael's and Joanne Fabrics. If you go
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| | successfully completed your candy topiary
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| with the pre-made form, you can hot glue
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| | bouquet!Be sure to visit our Chocolate and
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| it directly into the flower pot.3. Once
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| | Candy Gifts page to get more great candy
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| you have your form in either your mug or
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| | bouquet and candy gift-giving ideas. We
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| pot, you should hot glue Spanish moss or
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| | have edible candy bases and other unique
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| other decorative items such as shells,
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| | candy gift ideas for birthdays, get well,
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| dried flowers, etc to the to the top of
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| | Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter,
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| the base foam to basically hide the foam
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| | Mother's Day and more. Make your next
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| that makes up the base.4. Buy some floral
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| | candy bouquet gift memorable by buying it
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| pins and hard candies. I recommend
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| | online at Cookie Gift Baskets.
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| getting hard candies that color-coordinate
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