Bee Kim, creator of Weddingbee.com and WeddingbeePRO.com contacted me in early March to see if I would be interested in possibly being a guest blogger on the PRO site. I was so excited at the opportunity and blown away that she wanted me to be on her site. Of course, it probably helped that Mrs. Pineapple hired me and talked me up on her blog posts where Bee Kim took notice. :) (Thanks Mrs. Pineapple!)Anyway, my orders have consumed me since March 8th. I felt really bad because I am so honored to be asked, but I had to make sure my brides' orders were taken care of first. Plus I had a photo shoot and Bee asked if I could supply her with some "action" shots of me making flowers. I felt it best to wait until those pictures were available. Thank you Bee for allowing me to share my love for clay floral art with your readers!You can read my guest interview by clicking here!
My good friend Dianna Shitanishi of Hawaii Weddings & Events asked me last month if I could create some favor tags for a couple of her clients. I turned it around in a short amount of time for her. Dianna always gives me referrals and jobs so I try my best to meet her requests. I found out yesterday (by putting the pieces together) that my other friend/colleague, Geralyn Camarillo of Hokuli'i Images was photographing the same wedding!
On Facebook, they confirmed they were working on the same wedding. Ger got some shots of my favor tags so here's one picture she uploaded to share with me! The other pic is of Dianna on the right in light blue with the bride and groom. The couple was so happy with the favors and surprised too because Dianna didn't tell them about the addition!
Working with fabulous vendors as Dianna and Geralyn is a blessing! You can't go wrong with this dynamic duo! Thanks Ger for sharing some photos from yesterday's wedding! A side note, everyone was worried because Hawaii was under flash flood warnings and the wedding ceremony was outdoors. Thankfully, it was a beautiful day for the bride and groom!
The earlier part of this week I spent making 90 miniature yellow ranunculus flowers with an individually cut center and 20 petals per flower, that are no larger than the size of a quarter, for my client. She is the mother of the groom. She wanted them for the place cards they are making for the wedding reception. I wish I had time to create some mock place cards to show how cute these would be on them for a wedding reception. I didn't have enough time so you'll just have to settle for a shot of some of them grouped together. I hope the groom's mother will share photos of them after the wedding. I still have yet to finish her hair comb and corsage she ordered, but those will be worked on and shipped by early next week.
I hope to have more photos soon of another bouquet/boutonniere/corsage order I'm working on. Until then, may these beautiful, vibrant yellow ranunculus brighten your day!
My lovely bride Kara is another one of my favorites. Always so appreciative and on top of it all. Her wedding is fast approaching and she asked if I could create thank you cards for her Jack & Jill party (with her pineapple theme) and her wedding (with her cymbidium orchid theme). So we took the designs from the original invitation designs and applied it to her thank you cards. Here are how the designs turned out.
I love it when brides have the budget to order multiple things to create a consistent look and feel for their wedding. She's getting married at this great outdoor venue close to where they live. She's doing her favors and table cards and hair flowers with me as well. We're doing 3 types of favors, orange hibiscus, orange cymbidium orchids and little wooden turtles with mini hibiscus flowers. All in her colors of peacock teal and orange! Even though she's getting married on the East Coast, she's having a lot of Hawaiian influences with her favors, table cards names, etc. Just so happens they'll be honeymooning in Maui!Anyway, more samples to share as her wedding gets closer. I definitely love my sweet, fun and appreciative clients. They truly do ROCK! :)
I've been trying to figure out how to repackage my hair flowers and cake flowers. I haven't been happy with the cellophane bag route as it holds moisture in the bag which is not good for the flowers. So, thanks to my friend at www.zenatona.etsy.com, I decided to go with the muslin pouch route! My flowers are always termed at eco-chic alternative to fresh flowers, so why not provide packaging that is also eco-friendly and reusable! I'm going to modify the background images from time to time depending on my creative mood, but for now, I'm using this image taken by my other photographer friend, Natalie Wi of Allure West Studios. I hope to share some other photos she took of my work soon! I like how this overexposed image came out and set against the oatmeal colored bag, looks really vintage. :) 
At any rate, I will be using these bags to house my hair flowers and cake flowers that I ship to customers. As a side note, I always try to reuse packaging materials that I have from other shipments.
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So the 2 items I posted about previously that I had listed on Etsy sold! Goodness... They're selling like hotcakes! :) So today I worked on some more items. Some are items I've had, but just haven't had time to photograph and list. The other two I just made today which are the floral arrangements. The plumeria one was listed for 10 minutes and sold! It's so exciting. :) It's just like the level of sales after I was on the Martha Stewart Show.
At any rate, tonight I have to work on my sales tax filing with the State and work on some invitation samples for my client. More than likely no more flower making until tomorrow morning. Don't miss out. The below item is still for sale as well as the hair flowers, but they might go fast!
