Easy and Inexpensive Holiday Centerpiece

My in-laws have requested that we not give them any gifts, but we feel like we should do something, so I have been making them holiday centerpieces. Last year it was greenery and roses. This year I took a footed glass bowl that I bought at the thrift store and did a mercury glass treatment on it. Then I added wet foam oasis (and I found that it comes in round pieces which saved a lot of time, and oasis). I started with arborvitae around the very edge of the bowl. Then I cut white poinsettias (which normally look terrible by this time, but Aldi had just gotten theirs in so they still looked great), and I held the cut end over a flame to seal it–you don’t want to see any more liquid coming out of it. I used a little stick to create the holes for each poinsettia since their stems aren’t very strong. I used one whole poinsettia and a flower or two off another. I added a couple more arborvitae pieces to hide the holes and here’s how it turned out.