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Ok, the next step that we're going to do is actually start attaching some of this stuff
together, before we're able to hang it up. I always like to recycle everything that I
possibly can so, I'll take the ends of flower arrangements that I don't use and cut off
and use those for tools. One way to anchor this piece into this piece is to take and
literally drive a peg down into it, using the ends of the stems and hitting it with
some hot glue gun, so that it will stay. And, then you could take and just push it on down
and attach it. Place it where you would like it to be. The next thing is trying to attach
the heliconia, it's a very heavy flower. Taking that same wire, what I've done is cut it in
pieces and bend it around so that you have a U Clamp and I try to attach it where it's
not going to be seen because of the fact that we've covered this with the silk flowers I
need to put a hole in the flowers with an Exacto Knife to get it down in there. And,
again you can hit it with a hot glue gun to make sure that it's actually going to stay.
The other thing that will help you is on this piece that's going across, I'm going to have
the bamboo going down into it, so again using a knife, exacto knife, cutting right into
the hole, cutting an X into the leaf on both sides, so that when you push this down through, missed the hole. Ok, it's attached to this
and then we could do the same thing by attaching this with a pin from, this one to this piece,
so then you're starting to attach a piece so that you can hang it. So, the next thing
you need to do is start attaching your pieces together on a horizontal surface that'll be
heavier construction, so that it's easier than trying to do it while it's hanging on
a vertical. So, attach all your pieces before you hang it up on the vertical.