hello I'm Rebecca Cole for howdini comm and I'm going to teach you how to make a hand-tied bouquet first you want to make sure your flowers are nicely conditioned which would mean that you take off the leaves the thorns and put them in water leave them in water for about an hour have a nice good cut at the bottom and I've done that now to all my flowers now I'm going to start with a green I'm going to take three or four stems just lay them across my hand like this right in a row and then I'm going to start my flowers now I'm going to lay four flowers right next to each other some of them will be exactly the same thing I could do something a little different as well so you see have one two three four all mixed in with the Greens I'm going to pull the Greens down a little bit so I want them to be staying at about the same level okay now I'm going to make one little twist so I had them flat and now I'm twisting them so that these become in the back to you the front to me and these greens now instead of being just at the outer edge are going to go into the middle because now I'm going to lay my hand out here again and I'm going to start the process all over again see and there's just it's a nice flat little line but now I'm going to take them and hold them together and do a little twist you see how it's starting to become a little round circle twisting one more time take either wire or tape if you have Clippers you don't want to cut the wire where you usually cut your stems most Clippers have at the very bottom a little notch that's for a wire cutter so use that part still holding my bouquet just wrapping this around once twice holding on to that part I just wrapped around now I'm going to take the other part once and now I just do a little twisty tie and then wrap that around now I'm going to do my perfect cut which is the whole bottom I would like it to make it a lot shorter hold them together squeeze them tight and angles perfect for carrying a bouquet so if you're making a wedding arrangement you'd want to do a nice angle the nice thing about that is now you can see that we can really almost stand it up all on its own all right so it's beautiful but we need to hide that not very attractive wire and we want to do a nice tie because usually this is a present so pick a nice kind of neutral ribbon the best way that I think to measure this is to just put it around your neck have the ribbon touch the floor at the bottom and then cut it touching the floor at that side then not only do you have the right amount you have the perfect 1/2 place this underneath my bouquet all the way to the top so now I'm going to wrap it around really tight once keep my thumb on it so it stays tight and let's wrap it one more time at the top now this time before I just twist it both sides around again where they meet we take them have them pass over each other and then before you take it back around the bottom we're going to do one little twist so that's almost like you're creating a little knot so now I've wrapped it around again I've just at the back you just pull it around both ways okay just like you were wrapping one way and then the other and then I'm going to come back around to where that knot was and right at that same spot take them and twist them again so you do one twist and now you see my little knots are lining up nicely just keep doing this until we run out of ribbon that's going to be my last one on the bottom I'm going to come back around and the last time at the back I'm going to pull it up slightly so that my last knot arrives more in the middle of this rather than at the and there you see we have a really pretty line with a really nice knot and now we have enough ribbon that if we wanted to tie a bow we could I'm going to tie a little bow right here so now we just to make one little loop and then once you're done with it being really tight see how the ribbon kind of stands up on its own now you could keep it just straight cut off like that if you were going to use this as a wedding bouquet you could cut a nice sharp angle right here because that makes a really perfect little finish and voila you have a beautiful hand tied bouquet