Custom Arrangements for a Candelabra

A very good Etsy customer of mine asked me back during Christmas to create a holiday arrangement for this handcrafted wrought iron candelabra she bought. She sent me the piece and I created a centerpiece for it. She brought it as decoration for her company Christmas party.

She liked it so much that she decided she wanted to have 2 more arrangements that she could put in the candelabra at different times of the year. She fell in love with this purple wrist haku I made a while back and she asked if those colors and flowers could be incorporated. She also wanted a fall color bouquet. She left that one up to my creative judgement. I decided to do burgundy red dahlias, mango callas, yellow freesia and light orange ranunculus with monkey tail fern curls! So this is out it all turned out. Without having the candelabra this time, it's hard to know if it's going to work, but I think it will look stunning and now she has 3 arrangements to put in the beautiful black iron piece to enjoy year round!

I love my clients, especially those who love to buy my work time and time again! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Clay Bouquets in Yellow, White and Green... and an Idea on How to Display your Bouquets!

It's been a very busy week of making flowers for fundraisers and wedding orders. First off.... the fundraiser. It didn't go as well as I had wanted it to, but I got my name out there, showed my flower arrangements and hair flowers, and did a demonstration. I sold a few hair flowers and raffled off one of my larger arrangements that once existed on my Etsy site. I decided based on what I sold that I would just donate the entire amount that I brought in back to Nordstrom Elementary Home & School Club. Education for our little ones is so important so I know it's going to a good cause! The good news for those of you who love my work, the items that didn't sell at the fundraiser are now available for purchase on my Etsy site! I'll be adding the hair flowers soon, but for now, you can purchase the flower arrangements.

My client Sandra asked me to make bouquets for her wedding and wanted the colors: yellow, white, green and brown. She said she wasn't too much into traditional and was pretty open to what I had to suggest. So I decided upon yellow cymbidium orchids, yellow tulips, white ranunculus with the green centers, green viburnum and white and also yellow freesia stems. Her maid of honor bouquet is slight different, instead of freesia, I used stephanotis clusters. I wrapped her stems in chocolate brown satin ribbon and criss-crossed the ivory iridescent ribbon to contrast the chocolate. All in all, I think it came out beautifully.

We also did boutonnieres for her fiance and the best man as well. For those we did yellow cymbidium orchids, white ranunculus and green fillers to match Sandra's and the MOH bouquet. The ushers will have boutonnieres with a single tulip and some greens.

As I was finding a container to keep the flowers upright to dry, I realized something.... Given the right container, your bridal bouquets can be a great centerpiece as well! Just check out how lovely the bride's bouquet and MOH bouquet look in these white, square pillar vases! STUNNING! So, consider your wedding bouquets a decorative piece if not for your head table, what about for your cake table or reception table? The best part about it is that these will also look stunning in Sandra's home well after the wedding is over. Congratulations Sandra!