Parallel arrangement

I loved making this arrangement. The parallel lines make my OCD happy.



















Who's ready for their close-up? My parallel arrangement, that's who!



















And the example:

A diagonal arrangement.. in a teacup!

The title of this entry is self-explanitory. I loved making this arrangement, I also love that I'm not as scared to mess up. The flowers aren't as terrifying as they were a month ago; they've been moved down the list to intimidating.














This one below is the example, it's a little bit more on a diagonal plane than mine, I fixed mine when I got home.. But I'm not there right now to take a picture of it.














On a side note, Stephanotis is awesome.. Just like my corsage :)

Crown of flowers

I created my first design for someone this weekend. A friend was dressing as a Greek Godess for Halloween and her outfit would not have been complete without a crown of flowers. I had never before made anything like this, so I was completely clueless. I made a crude base with wire and covered my machanics with old baker fern from a previous arrangement. I wired a number of crysanthemums as I would have if they were corsages and attached them to the crown. It looked perfect! I ran across a number of problems, mainly not knowing how big to make it. I made it extra long so that I could just fold the back of the crown up after she put it on. It worked.

I made the crown on Saturday night, Tuedsay night I learned how to actually make one.. Great timing. Turns out that I was on the right track. Instead of greening the crown I covered the wire with floratape. Also, I didn't connect the back instead of making it extra long; it looked like a horseshoe. Then we tied it together in the back with ribbon (after I knew exactly how big to make it).

Triangle Arrangement.. the final product

I love festivities, I love holidays, I love an excuse to dress up as an 80's Prom Queen and to make floral arrangmements in pumpkin heads. I don't know where I inherited this from, it must be from mother. My mother's definition of Christmas can be found in the dictionary as over-the-top; rows upon rows of German Nutcrackers, candy (and toothbrush) filled stockings, and home-made cinnamon rolls... mmm cinnamon rolls.




















and while not nessessarily floral-related:




















I love Halloween

Triangle arrangement... a work in progress

When: Thursday 10.29.09; 1:30am
Where: My bed, tossing and turning until 5:30

Dr. Steve was kind enough to let me take home the materials to work on the arrangement at home when I wasn't feeling so zombie-eske.

This is what it will look like:



















This is what it looks like right now:



















Please ignore the dirty cutting board in the background. If I was too tired to play with flowers, I was definitely too tired to do dishes... in fact, I'm still feeling a little faint. The dishes can wait, the flowers cannot!

Bridal Bouquet #2

YESSSSSSSS!!!

I know that I said it before, but I love making bridal bouquets. While this is still not "the bouquet", it's still pretty awesome. We made a bouquet that is intended to be for more petite brides and is made up of an arrangement of concentric circles of flowers. Mine turned out a little larger with an addition of an extra row of daisy poms, maybe for an amazon-sized bride; otherwise known as a Christina sized bride.

I love you Miss Swan :)

Open Mound

World, meet Dr. Steve
Dr. Steve, meet world






















Don't mind the large arrangement sitting next to him, it's called an open mound and it is the bain of my existence. At least it was for about two hours last Thurday night. After tearing apart the entire arrangement and chopping at least two inches off of all of my flowers, this was the best impersonation that I could come up with





















It still barely fit out the door and into the car.
I have nothing else to say about this one... except ugh.