Budding Beauties

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Photo by: Julia M. Usher

First made in 2012, these 3-D cookie vases are decorated with both the needlepoint and stenciling techniques and filled out with tiny marbled cookie flowers mounted on slender popsicle sticks. Julia’s 2014 YouTube instructional video for this project became so popular that she later went on to teach this bud vase all around the world.

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