Team Guide Recommends: Here's how you can make your own flowers

There isn’t a grimmer sight than an artificial plant catching dust on a shelf. I made an exception to the no-artificial rule at home for Setsugo’s build-it-yourself flowers. The bombax ceiba (Silk cotton tree flower) set (above) came with 104 pieces.

Assembling the flower felt like I was back in Botany class at college, all over again. The 27-cm-long plastic flower makes for the ideal stress buster if you like flowers and building things. Just don’t give it to that girl you like.