Showing posts with label bouquets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bouquets. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

The Give Away - 2 days left!


OK, it's giveaway time!!!  Mother's Day is quickly approaching so if you would like the opportunity to win a lovely bouquet for Mother's Day, either for your mother, your wife, sister or even yourself you can do one or all of the following things:


a) become a follower of this blog
b) 'like' me on facebook
c) follow me on twitter
d) go to my friend's blog sew a straight line and leave a comment on which way you entered.  Be sure to have your email address either linked to your profile or in the body of the comment text.


To see my work, go here or to my facebook photo page to look at what I have created in the past.  I promise you will not be disappointed!

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Carson's Wedding


I met with the bride and groom-Carson and Robert, at This Is the Place Park to discuss what she was looking for and to see the venue she had chosen. She had ideas for her flowers and the look she wanted- country, rustic, simple- kind of an old-fashioned country garden wedding party. Her wedding colors were sunny yellow, white, and brown. She wanted sunflowers and daisies, mason jars, and a just gathered from the garden look to the arrangements. She showed me a sample invitation she loved and I helped help customize one for her and Robert in a similar style.

She wanted wrist corsages for her bridesmaids and I suggested ribbon corsages, covered with Daisies and Black Eyed Susans, to be tied around their wrists. They turned out fabulously! What made it better? Her bridesmaids vintage dresses- the corsages complemented the classic feminine style perfectly! Carson wanted to tie in her color scheme to the mom corsages and originally wanted sunflowers for them as well but I suggested a fabulous alternative- Dahlias. I made simple corsages of a single dahlia and a small cluster of Billy Balls tied with a gorgeous chocolate brown satin ribbon.

Now for the bad news... I forgot to grab pictures of the bride's bouquet, the Mom's amazing corsages, the bridesmaid wrist corsages, and the groom's boutonniere. The mother of the bride promised to send me pictures of them and if she acutally sends them, I'll post them. In the meantime, enjoy looking at the pictures of centerpieces and the reception site. The other pictures will soon be on here too!

Most of the centerpieces were in mason jars but a few were in metal pails. We wrapped the chairbacks and newel posts on the porch with organza ribbon and tied sunflowers to them. The bride's mother provided the fabulous window with the bride and groom's name written across the glass pane.


The simple buttercream cake called for a hint of flowers.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Later that same day...

My favorite colors are in the red family. My least favorite is blue. I made a compromise and tried purple and came up with this. I love the calla and fig berry twigs- they were the color scheme inspiration. I think this turned out very nice, considering it's only the second bouquet and boutonniere I've made....ever!




These were my practice for the road ahead!

Just for fun

About five years ago, my sweet and somewhat frazzled aunt gave me a black and white tea service and hostess set for my birthday. It's cute and it's fun and I've never used it... until now. I think these turned out well! I love the reflective surface of the black table under it but the red cloth just makes it even happier!

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