Avocado Peonies

What we have here is an avocado seed, and two pieces of the peel that breaks away as the seed dries. (This is not the outside peel of an avocado that you slice through to get to the meat of the fruit.) I painted the outside of the seed and the inside of the two small peelings with Apple Barrel Barn Red. . This is to be the red- inside of peony flowers. Then I painted the edges of the outside and of the inside of the peels.

Between the former picture over three months ago, and this photo, I had a pulmonary embolism, a brain bleed, a massive stroke, and multiple falls, injuring my spine and brain. My left hand tremors too badly for crafts yet, and I can’t walk yet, but otherwise I’m pretty much fine.

When I went looking for two more avocado halves, that I had dried and painted white to go on my peony, I couldn’t find them. So I changed the inside of the flower to use some paper I have which is mostly pink on one side and mostly white on the other.

I used wood glue (I couldn’t reach the white glue) to attach the avocado seed to the center and the frayed-edge paper inside the inner shell. I also had a cardboard egg carton on hand to replace the missing pieces, but they didn’t quite fit.

I found an unused bracket from a cabinet kit to use as the base. I wired in a dragonfly and some tiny artificial flowers. I placed a twig in front to finish the scene and I had it: a peony made from an avocado and other assorted pieces.

The finished composition. A peony made from an avocado, mounted on a small wooden bracket, with faux flowers to help disguise the wire holding the dragonfly. The peony has paper inner petals around a center made of an avocado seed. This one is sprayed with a poly sealer, but there are many ways to individualize yours.

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And another view. With the idea in mind, you can beat my time of two hours. The paint and glue dry very fast. I knocked the flower into the floor a couple of times and the twig isn’t glued, but it still looks presentable.