standing tall

this week has been C.R.A.Z.Y. i've been on my feet for 8 hours at a time. thank goodness i can be around things i love [flowers - things that don't talk back to you] and not annoying people, like how things used to be at my last office job! haha. i still haven't had a chance to take photographs yet of all the projects i've completed this week .. so this will have to suffice until i do take some.

[red roses, burnt orange & red ranunculus, berries,
white wax flower, yellow fillers, bamboo sticks]

this arrangement is much taller than the hearts and rounds i made yesterday. i created a forest of roses, with greenery interlaced in between the stalks. i quite like these berries that we've been using for the projects this week. they're so versatile! and they were cheap too~ double good ^ ^ i used 2 skinny bamboo sticks on either side of the front to rein in and hold the squarish shape of the rose forest .. also, the sticks come together to mimic the heart shape that we've been so focused on producing this week. i'm definitely a fan of the streamlined, boxed-in, hedged look .. but i also love wild flowers. i personally feel that all floral arrangements should have something wild and free about them. over-manipulation of flowers is not something i am interested in. the shape and flow of each flower, stalk and leaf needs to be considered. still, the feathery yellow filler flowers needed a bit of human pruning to let it fit in with the overall formalness [squarishness] of the arrangement.

i was coerced into making single-stem rose "bouquets" .. using leaves and *gasp* baby's breath today~ but .. you know, being a savvy business woman is knowing the current market and audience .. and in this economy, and in that neighborhood, those single-stem conventionalities may be the hot-selling items this valentine's day.

sometimes, it takes a lot more creativity to make something conventional work .. than to let your imagination run wild and take you where you want to go. on the other hand .. if i had all the resources at my fingertips, then i would NEVER make something as ghastly as THIS. i mean, c'mon .. what is this? there is no coherency in terms of color, shape or theme! and if there is some sense that went into the making of such a thing .. then .. well, it is completely lost on me.

i must have pruned about 150+ long-stemmed roses today. not only did i cut myself, get pricked by thorns and ruin my fabulous dark purple manicure .. but i also managed to lop off the heads of a half a dozen or so of these beauties. hehehe. so, i decided to make a little posey for my mum:


that's all for today. i'm going to enjoy my nice tall glass of wine and wind down for the night. REAL pictures, not mobile pics, will be posted later this week .. there are some really good arrangements that i'd like to post to the blog.