fancy flowers

I love Heather Bailey's blog and have been eyeing this project for quite some time now! It looked like a great way to use some of those fabric scraps in that ever-growing stash of mine. To make your own check out the pattern here. The flowers are so fun...you can do almost anything with them. I will definitly be making more of these!

freaky flowers

Last night in hort lab we made Halloween foam designs. I love the sparkly black tree fern...it adds that special touch! The green, orange and purple really makes a great holiday color scheme. Another fun element is the wire spiral and "boo". The was the first foam design we have made in class. This will dress up my dorm room for Halloween :)

corsage and boutonniere

I just returned from my floral design lab and have some projects to show you! Tonight we made basic corsages and boutonnieres...exciting!

The first one I made using one large orange and two small yellow button pom-pom chrysanthemums. Also incorporated were seeded eucalyptus and tree fern.

I had enough time to make a second using two white novelty, two green and one lavender button pom-pom chrysanthemums as well as saphora and old fashioned misty blue filler. The foliage in the back is eucalyptus and leather leaf.

I didn't realize how much work actually goes into these! Every element in the corsage/boutonniere must first be fixed to its own wire before being put in the bunch...and there are several ways to attached to wire to the elements! For finishing touches we put our bow making skills to good use and learned to make curly q's! How cute! This will be a useful skill to master...they'll make great gifts :)

HORT 261

The class I am most excited about this semester is HORT 261: Floral Design! I went to class on Monday and lab last night and was very pleased with the overview of the course. I'm going to learn a lot of interesting things...Last night in lab we learned about some of the basic tools and fabricated bows out of different ribbons. So cool!
I will be looking forward to this class every week...and once we get to some bigger projects I'll share some pictures with you :)