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QUAD Mega Homecoming Mums! Oh My!

And here they are!  These are some of the Flower Mound Quads I made this year.  These things were too big to work with on my work table so I had to assemble them on the floor!!

This is the mack daddy of mums!   She had lights, she had silver lame mums, she had every braid you could think of!  It was so pretty!  I wish you could see the letters across the top better - they were huge and spelled out her name.  This thing was AWESOME!  I custom made name garland for all my quads and triples and on my quads I also hung custom initial charms from the bears.  You can kind of see them on the bottom left picture hanging from the star wand the bear is holding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are two of the girls wearing two of the quads I made!  Don't they look awesome (both the girls and the mums)!  Both of these seniors wanted the hot pink accents added to their Silver and White.  Hayley's mum on the left was the normal HUGE size of the QUAD.  Sandy's Quad pictured here far right was a scaled down QUAD (she didn't want it too over the top) but you can see how big it still was!

 

 

 

Now here is my beautiful quad with the turquoise accents made for Miss Laura this year.  This was Laura's senior year so this was the super sonic mega mum!  I am going to miss making Laura's mums!  She just might have to get them while she is in college too :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We did the lights on hers too with the flapper style headband going across the bear.  The turquoise accent turned out really pretty and I dyed the butterflies on the top to match!    We made a matching garter to this for her date - here is a picture of both of them at school!

 

 

Here is a close up of the top of the mum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now before you think I am crazy (and that may be too late!)  I do name all of my mums :-)  I name them for the girl it is made for - it serves two purposes.  1.  It makes me feel like it is ultra personalized - each mum is made JUST FOR THAT GIRL!!  2.  It helps make my 4 year old son respect the mum to not touch it - if he knows that this is "Miss Hayley's mum"  or "Miss Sandy's Mum) - he won't mess with them because he knows it belongs to someone else!

 

 

Speaking of Miss Sandy's Mum - here is her beautiful QUAD 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We used the Silver and White Lame Flowers on Sandy's mum and I also dyed the butterflies hot pink at the top.   She liked the glassine acrylic flowers so the bear is holding some of those with her custom made acrylic initials hanging from them.

 

 I do have to note here - all of my mums and garters - ALL OF THEM - you can tell from the  pictures that they have tons of stuff on them - but I want people to know this is not all on the surface!  These things are stacked!  You can dig and dig through them and find more stuff - they are super thick!

 

 

  

 

 

Unfortunately I was unable to take pictures of some of my triples - but I did get to have a picture of this awesome couple that I made the triple mega senior mum with lights for and the matching band hat senior garter that was in my previous post!!  Seeing people smile this big is what makes me LOVE making these!!!

If you have any questions please email me!  I love to help!  Have a wonderful day and thank you for looking!

  Melissa

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2011 Homecoming Single, Double and Super Size Single Mums!!

 

Loooooong title - I know - but I was trying to group together a few pics of some of the Deluxe Single, Deluxe Double and Super Size Single Mega Mums from this season.   BTW - for those who don't know what the super size single mega mum is - well I use BEATIFUL 7.5" 21 Layer Flowers for my mums (most people only use 6.5" or 15 layer and believe me there IS a difference) - but the super size single mega mum is a 9.5" flower!!  HUGE!!!   So it a ginormous single mum that is ideal for ANY class (Fresh, Soph, Junior, Senior)   - since I love them so much let's start with those!

 

This first one will always be one of my favorite mums ever - the pictures just do NOT do it justice.  This is a FMHS (Flower Mound) Sophomore Super Size Single Mega Mum.  The mom brought me the jaguar to use and it was so stinkin cute!!  the girl played soccer so that was added to the top along with her name.

 

 

TONS of Gems and Pearls - a butterfly at the end of her name and a glassine flower to complete the bow.

 

 

 

 

For the body of the mum - well I don't know that I can even start to list everything I put on these things!  Of course there is the Homecoming Loop and a Name Loop along with a Whip braid, a Victory Braid, a Military Braid and a Box Braid.  I am pretty sure there was a Texas Champion braid on there too but I can't see it in the picture.  All my super size singles, triples and quads automatically come with a boa, a memory book, bubbles and a treat bag.  Bells and trinkets out the wazoo!!  So funny how in these pictures you can't really tell how big these are but they are just WOW!  I did make custom name garland for these larger mums this year that turned out so cool  - I'll have to get a close up picture of it!

 

 

 

SENIOR SUPER SIZE SINGLE MUM!!!   See how beautiful these turn out for seniors  too!  This was made for a Senior at Flower Mound High School - look at the feather flapper style headband on this bear - didn't it turn out CUTE!  Lots of pearl accents and a Gemstone drop from hanging from the bow - this one looked so elegant!

 

Here is a picture of the whole mum and a close up of the body of the mum - can you see the Senior 2012 custom lettering under the bear? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Another SUPER SIZE SINGLE MEGA MUM here!  This one was made for a Senior at North Hills Prep!  This one had custom cut lettering across the top with a couple of fleur de lis.  Also added some lovely silver silk flowers to the top as well.  The looped military braid on the right has a acrylic crystal ornament hanging from the middle of it that turned out really cool!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is an awesome Deluxe Double Mum made for a sophomore at Marcus High School.  They added a memory book, boa, two tone flower and custom cut lettering to it - it turned out so pretty!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one is a FMHS (Flower Mound) Sophomore Deluxe Single mum with the extras package!  I finally had to stop adding stuff to it because there was nowhere to PUT  IT!  I think that is my biggest issue with making these - I try to put everything AND the kitchen sink on these and have to stop or the poor girls won't be able to walk!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One more I wanted to put on here!  This is a Deluxe Single Mum that added a boa.  It was made for a Freshman at Marcus High School.  For this one I made a custom Large Letter "M" for the School Logo, and hand painted it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Made by www.MelzMumz.com

2011 Homecoming Garters !!

It's been a while!  Finally now that I am past mum season and past all the holidays, I can now start putting my uploads back on my blog!  Right now I am starting to get ready for the 2012 Homecoming Mum and Garter season and have actually had some mum orders here in January and for February Homecomings!  But first - I wanted to share a few photos of some of the latest creations - unfortunately I was so busy I wasn't able to take photos of all my mums and garters from this season but I will try to do better this year!  So this is going to be a few posts - first let's start with the Garters!

 

Honestly I have to say I truely love all my mums and garters.   I put so much time and attention to detail into making these as amazing as possible.  I just don't do mediocre!  (Type A personality - I know)  But with that said, I do still have my favorites and this is one of them. 

 

 

 

This Flower Mound senior garter was done as a match to a triple mum and they wanted the bear to have a marching band hat.  I made this one out of plastic and painted it white then covered it in white felt and did a silver cord trim detail - added the little "bib" to the front of the hat and stuck a feather in the top.  I was so happy with the outcome!!  Here is a picture of the whole thing:

 

This next one is one of my other favorites from this last year.   I made custom lettering for most of my mums and garters this year - but this one turned out so cute with the boa around the top and the senior 2012!  This one was a Senior Flower Mound garter as well.

Both the girl this was from and the guy this was to played soccer - so in addition to the jerseys with their names and numbers on them I accented with a lot of soccer stuff too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now this  - well this monster of a garter is a double garter for a senior at Flower Mound!   And it was just WOW - huge and had so much stuff on it!!   The picture isn't very good of the whole thing but it did take a good close up picture of the top!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These next few were Flower Mound High School Junior Garters

 

 

 

 

 

 

I really need to take a picture of them wearing these so you can see how big they are - they really are MEGA garters!

 

 

Another Senior Garter here - baseball themed!

 

This is a senior garter that was made to match a QUAD MEGA Mum I made - it has a tiny bit of turquoise added to it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OH WAIT!!!  I DO HAVE A PICTURE OF THEM WEARING IT!  This is a picture of one of the QUAD Mega Mums I made with the matching garter being worn by both the guy and girl!!

 

 Made by www.MelzMumz.com