Bridal Bouquet Gift for My Cousin's Daughter

My cousin's daughter is getting married in a couple of weeks. Danielle asked me if I would be willing to make her bouquet when she gets married and I decided to gift her with it as our wedding present to her and her fiance! Her favorite color is yellow and she's pairing it with grey and vintage country accents. 

Her bridesmaids are each going to have a fresh flower bouquet of all one type of flower, such as a bouquet of all gerberas, all roses, etc. So Danielle asked me if I could incorporate the flowers from their bouquets into hers. So her bouquet is comprised of cabbage roses, gerbera daisies, lisianthus, and hydrangeas. She wanted to incorporate orchids as it's her favorite flower and the flower Dominic gave to her on their first date. 

 So... here's how her bouquet turned out. We added lily of the valley since it would have taken me too long to make baby's breath. I felt it was a nice trade off that adds little blossoms and some lovely movement to the bouquet. Her stems are finished with burlap and lace. 

Congratulations and Best Wishes to Danielle and Dominic. It's been so wonderful seeing your love grow through the years! Many years of wedded bliss to the both of you!  Hopefully I'll be able to snap some photos and share them in a couple of weeks.

Custom Ring Pillow Box for a Destination Wedding

I know it has been a long time since I've blogged. It's been a crazy start to the summer with end of year parties and activities for my son at school and contending with my summer wedding orders. I had to just share these images of a custom ring pillow box I made for my client. It turned out super cute.

 Cami's request was for my turtles as bride & groom turtles, but the groom to have a sailor's hat as her fiance is in the Navy. She also asked for her bouquet to be replicated, but because of how SMALL the bouquet is I could only create the ranunculus, grasses and roses.

They turned out so adorable that I think I just might be offering these in the near future. :)

Also, as part of Cami's order she requested her bridal bouquet, matching hair flower and favors.

Baby Shower Cake Decorations

One of my repeat clients in Australia often asks me to make decorations for cakes her clients ask her for various special events. This time the request was for baby bears, blocks and a blanket. I'm always nervous about having to do figurines, but it did come out super cute!

 I had to find a star cookie cutter small enough to work for the blocks and it just so happened my son and I took a baking class today for Mother's Day and I was able to find one that would work. The lettering is also done by hand!

Happy Mother's Day!

Just wanted to take a moment and wish all of you a very Happy Mother's Day!

I made these lovely stemmed flowers for the mothers and women at our church!

French Macarons - Clay Style!

 Who doesn't love French macarons? They are so sweet and so pretty, they are hard to resist! I learned how to make them a couple years ago but haven't had time to make them since. The other day I had to fulfill an order for French macarons of the clay kind for a friend, who is also a wedding stationery designer, Emi Ink.   She wanted to use them for her wedding shows to help compliment her favor box designs and displays. 

I never really tried to make them out of clay as my main passion is flowers, but these were fun to create. Playing with different mediums to embellish them with. My son wanted to eat the shells when I was making them and asked me when I would make ones he could eat.

I love how they turned out. These really do make great props for photo shoots and displays when real ones aren't available or you want to re-use them over and over for various shows.

A Pink Bouquet for In the Pink Events

  I had the pleasure of "working" with Holly Fawcett last year. Her client had bid on my bouquet services via Wish Upon A Wedding's silent auction to raise money for couples with life threatening illnesses so they could have the wedding of their dreams.

Holly has kept in touch with me since then and purchased one of my teapots and asked if I would be willing to make her a pink bouquet to go in her studio at In the Pink Events! She had expressed a desire for fuchsia pink anemones with black centers but she said other than that, I had free reign as to what I wanted to design. Since her company has the word, "pink" in it, varying shades of pink seemed appropriate!

The bouquet contains, anemones, sweet peas, plumerias, peony buds, heirloom roses, ranunculus and cherry blossoms with some green fillers to mix in with the all pink bouquet.

My Clay Florals Now Featured on BRIKA!

I'm so happy to announce that after months of email negotiations that I'm officially selling some of my beautiful clay floral designs on BRIKA.com. I happened upon a fellow artisan who was selling on BRIKA and I decided to contact them to see if what I do and sell might be considered. The creators of BRIKA agreed and they asked me to create some wonderful pieces for Mother's Day! What I love about BRIKA is that it is so different from Etsy. They hand select the handcrafters they want to feature and they don't just sell their products, but the feature the artisans with a full description of who they are and I think that's such a great way to share the artisan's story and buyers can connect with the designer by getting to know them a little more!

Here's also the pieces for sale at BRIKA.com! There is limited inventory so get yours before they're all gone! Definitely share BRIKA with your family and friends. They are offering special discounts when you refer more friends to their wonderful online store! I'm so honored to be included with so many amazingly talented artisans! Thank you Kena for believing that my designs are a fit for BRIKA!