Fresh flowers are still rather expensive and you can not only embellish your home with paint coated beans but also with self-made tissue paper flowers.
Or of course other paper flowers ;-)
Links:
Tissue Paper Flower (layered tissue paper flower… ) (Chinese)
The original link forwards to a page where you must login, but I can’t speak Chinese ;-)
Here at unikatissima:
Paint Coated Beans
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