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Above is a photo from our recent vacation in Sedona, Arizona. There is a place called Buddha Beach where you can witness in awe thousands of stacked rock sculptures near a Vortex site at the Red Rock Crossing in Sedona. It was amazing! I love Sedona!
I love this photo that was featured in today's enewsletter from Future Natural, an organic and natural beauty product shop! Makes me miss my long hair =)
I love these wire spheres from Accent Decor! They are available in many different colors. Check out the video tutorial by the talented Hitomi Gilliam on how to create this stunning modern arrangement!
Check out the movement in this Calla Lilly sculptural arrangement by Koldo Esparza for Gunni & Trentino, the most famous interior design store in Madrid.
Isn't this an incredible architectural arrangement using conch shells! This impressive gravity defying piece is by Koldo Esparza, a floral artist from Spain. Please check out thewebsite and blog for more wonderful floral art!
OH EM GEE! I am head over heels for this spiral ceremony setup on the beach in Cabo by none other than Colin Cowie! More images here.
Check out Tiare Floral Design from Tacoma, WA! The floral artist,Tomasi Boselawa is a Fijian artist living in the Northwest. His unique perspective on floral design is informed by his Fijian culture. Check out the floral art gallery to see some stunning floral arrangements!
Found these the other day... Check out Chive for some wonderful options for a simple and modern table scape.
Simply lovely. I am thankful for amazing floral design by Flowers of the World (NYC).
If you had the loot to throw a party for your quirky modern man, these Domsai Terrariums would definitely be the focal point! At $150 each you might want to chop up some action figures and try to make some on your own (make sure you don't reach for the ones on his shelf, though!).
via flowersoftheworldnyc.blogspot.com
My heart always beats fast when I see images of modern floral design! Today I just discovered Flowers of the World in New York. Check out their blog to see some gorgeous modern arrangements and wow factor window displays!
How about these amazing floral designs for a grand entrance to your ceremony! See more lovely photos at Yvonne Design!
I just discovered the incredibly amazing floral photography work of Jocelyn Konarski, the Filipina-Polish photographer behind Florendipity Photography. Without the use of tricky filters or lenses, computer enhancements or processing, her work reveals the natural essence and mystery of flora by using a special technique which allows the flowers to expose themselves naturally in the existing sunlight to her NikonF2. Simply stunning! Also check out Jocelyn's exhibition page and you will be inspired by the modern use of her photography in posh restaurants and bars! Oh, and stay tuned for her upcoming anthology of flowers photography book!
Check out Seed Floral, an eco-floral and event design company located in Los Angeles! Stephanie Elhayani is the amazing and talented designer behind these gorgeous works! If you are in LA, you can take a floral design class as well! Check out the website for more info.
Wow, check out Serax from Belgium! They create designer accessories for florists as well as create stunning floral design work.
So fresh and so clean! I'm loving these mod floral creations by Modern Day Floral Design for an ArtPrize event in Michigan! It gives me some fresh ideas for another Thanksgiving...
Related Post: White Tablescapes
Here's an idea for a fresh and modern Christmas tree by Floral Designer Ken Marten, that will live on for the rest of the year... just add ornaments! Use a plant stand and various topiary style plants in planters of the same color for a unified look. For the tree top, an urn shape works beautifully here. Place it on a low round table and gifts can be housed beneath it! After the holidays you can give the plants away or disperse them around the house! Below is another option using Jasmine plants.
I enjoy the crispness and freshness of these Fall floral treatments by Tweeny of The Flower Lab in Santa Monica, CA! Mixing dried botanicals like lotus pods, curly willow and money tree stems with fresh local flowers and bright orchids creates a varied texture and a bounty for the eyes! See the full details at The Flower Lab blog for Wedding Aces and see more floral bounty at The Flower Lab Blog.
I adore the bold style and color explosion of this modern Veteran's Day wedding with Indian details! I saw this at Style Me Pretty and just had to share! See all the details of this wonderful wedding here, here, and here.
Via Style Me Pretty:
The Vendors: Real Weddings Maine Director, Jessika Brooks / Venue by Retreat at French’s Point / Event Design by Flora Fauna Designs and coordination by The Sweetest Thing Weddings / Photography by David Murray Weddings / Stacey Kane / Michelle Turner / Audra Photography / Catering by Silver Tureen / Tent by Sperry Tent / Cake by Let Them Eat Cake / Henna by Genevieve Levin of Blackbird Studios
Wow! This is a really innovative ruler that I discovered via Spoon and Tamago. f,l,o,w,e,r,s by Norihiko Terayama of Studio Note
is an acrylic ruler with embedded real flowers that are “blossoming” at
exactly 1cm intervals. Each flower was hand-picked and dried by the
designer, therefore making each ruler unique. To get one, click here. (It costs as much as a wooden ruler...psyche!)
(Photo & Arrangement by LotusHaus: Happy New Year - Bronze Football Chrysanthemum and Steel Grass Blades)
(Photo & Arrangement by LotusHaus: Ikebana for a Japanese Inspired Wedding)
If you are planning a fall wedding, I would like to share with you some wonderful information about using Chrysanthemums to add beauty and blessings to your wedding and your home! The following information is from Gwynne Warner of 10,000 Blessings Feng Shui:
Revered for its beauty and medicinal properties, the gorgeous and highly regarded yellow or golden chrysanthemum ("chu" in ancient Chinese) is rich both in color and symbolism. They make a most auspicious gift as well as a noble offering on an altar.
The flower is symbolic with autumn; ease of life; longevity (such as life, luck, love or success); simplicity and perfection. Because it blooms out of autumn and right into the season winter, it also symbolizes the mediation between life and death and Heaven and Earth.
For Feng Shui purposes, it is full of super-powerful yang chi, and placing chrysanthemums in your home or office will immediately attract good luck! An auspicious day to pick chrysanthemums is on the 9th day of the 9th lunar month (which falls on October 26th this year). If you wish to receive rewards, success, fame, recognition, honor and bonuses, put a golden yellow mum in the Fame area (back middle) of the first floor of your home as well as the fame area of your office.
If you are in New York, go and visit the New York Botanical Garden's elaborate exhibit, "Kiku in the Japanese Garden" (Kiku = Japanese word for Chrysanthemum). This is the third and final exhibit of Chrysanthemum designs at the Botanical Gardens!
Our DJ Company Bamboo Beats, had the pleasure of providing international lounge grooves and dance music for BoConcept's Longest Worldwide Release Party in Seattle last night! I will post pro pics as soon as I get them, but in the meantime I wanted to share the modern tropical floral stylings of Maricel's Floral Design, a fellow pinay floral designer in Seattle. I just love her modern and fresh approach to florals that complemented the BoConcept vases so well.
Inspired by a post by Hostess with the Mostess on Floral Art LA and their inspirational Flower Bar, I found this modern, elegant and very doable centerpiece that makes me happy today! It consists of violet carnations, vanda orchids, and tropical foliage in a plum lucite box.
I love these designs by Bree of Kuga Designs! Check out Bree's Daniel Ost inspired post to learn more about the influence and mechanics behind her works of art!
Follow floral artist Susan Weisser's easy steps for creating your own minimalist tropical centerpiece design! I love this! So fresh and modern!
Featured Event Designer: Love and Splendor
Featured Floral Designer: Irvine Village Flowers
Featured Photographer: Travis Hoehne
Featured Venue: Seven Degrees
Here's a vibrant and creative wedding by Love and Splendor! I just love the colors and the modern touches! I especially love the lighting and handmade details. See more photos here and here!
Naoki Sasaki is a master of traditional and modern Japanese floral
art. Check out his gallery of work and grab a copy of his new book, Japanese Contemporary Floral Art at Amazon. Such inspiring work!
I'm amazed by the modern look of this ceremony decor with it's red lacquered bamboo urns and red roses! Simply stunning work by Dodie Sy of the incredible Brassavolas Floral Couture in Chino, California. See more beautiful floral examples at his blog.
Featured Event Designer: Kendal Brown of Eclatante Design
Featured Floral Designer: Donna O'Brien of Beautiful Blooms
Featured Photographer: Marie Labbancz of Art of Love
Via The Bride's Cafe, an awesome wedding blog, I discovered these fabulous internationally inspired centerpieces that were created for a Bat Mitzvah party. The theme was "Cities of the World" and each table represented a different city. Guests were given boarding passes to their tables. What a great idea for a global party or wedding!
I'm so inspired by this lovely color combination of grey and bright pop colors for a fall wedding... aren't you?! I saw this via Love and Splendor.
Happy Monday! We DJ'd a beautiful wedding this Saturday at Hotel 1000... The florals were done by Bella Rugosa and they were amazing! Vanda orchids, pink peonies, orange tulips, lime green hydrangea and gloriosa lillies! I was lucky enough to take home some blooms from the wedding and make a happy arrangement of my own with a ceramic mug of the laughing buddha (there is a hole in the front for a straw and an opening in the back for the drink... tres kitschey!). I found this figurine at the thrift store but you can get the same one at Perpetual Kid.
“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky” ~ Buddha
A Bloom A Day looks like a wonderfully inspiring birthday gift for the floral enthusiast! It has 365 gorgeous flower photographs for every day of the year, each with a
corresponding birthday fortune and the meaning of the flower.I found this via Snippet and Ink.
I saw this wire momentum bowl in the Crate and Barrel catalog and just love the idea of an organic style wedding centerpiece using orchids, spongy moss and a see-through basket (that you could give away to guests). For a rustic look you could make your own basket out of chicken wire. For a modern look, scout your home improvement center for mesh you could spray paint and mold into your own shape. You can purchase the orchid potted plants in bulk at Aloha Orchid and the reindeer moss at Save-On-Crafts.
Featured Floral Designer: Flower Design, UK
I really love the freshness of these floral arrangements by Flower Design! I especially love the crisp modernity of the martini designs and tall centerpieces using orchids, anthuriums, curly bamboo and calla lilies! See more photos here.
Here's an arrangement I donated for a friend's church auction... (The photo is a bit overexposed, sorry! My good camera is out of commission, wah)
These would be sleek and modern centerpieces! Grown your own grass in these luxe Chlorophylle grass planter boxes! Via Totally Tabletops.
These porcelain wall bud vases by Etsy seller Ryan Takaba are way too cool! I saw these over at Jenn Ski's mid century modern design blog.
As an Ikebana practitioner, when I saw this Grid Vase by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón my eyes grew wide with the possibilities! These vases are beautifully formed and the grid patterns are so intriguing... so beautiful just by themselves... but picture branches and single blooms punctuating the grills... "grid
is an eye-catching vase collection manufactured by turkish artisans,
bestowed with hundreds of years of experience in copper craftsmanship.
it combines contemporary design with turkish sensibility."
Everyone loves fresh flower pomanders! Finally, I remembered to snap some shots of the girls in my St. Luke's Class. We made some really cute mini pomanders about the size of a large grapefruit.
Materials:
Instructions: (also good instructions here)
1) Prepare wet floral foam.
If you can find a floral foam orb in the size you want, simply soak in water and then set out to drain. Or else you can take a small block of floral foam and shape it by cutting it down and sculpting it into an orb. I used an apple for size comparison. Optional: Wrap the orb in chicken wire for a more sturdy structure.
2) Assemble ribbon.
There are different ways to do this. If you have wrapped the orb in chicken wire, tie a ribbon with a loop handle through the wire at the top of the orb. But this is what I did because I used a green poly yarn i/o ribbon: Take a chopstick and stab it through the center of the orb. Push a double strand of yarn through the hole with the chopstick. Cut a stem about 2" and tie it with the yarns so that when you pull up the loop the stem creates a stable stopper for the yarn.
3) Cut kermit mum heads.
Cut stems to about 2" and insert into foam in a row that circles around the entire orb. Then make another row that circles the orb so that it creates quarter lines. Then fill in the rest of the quarters with mums.
4) Add any other embellishments.
You can add another bow to the top loop if you like. I attempted to make a chinese style knot with the excess yarn at the bottom of the pomander.
5) Experiment with your pomander and enjoy!
You can use your pomander as an centerpiece too by placing it in a glass cube or on top of a cylinder vase.
Whoa, how do I contain my excitement? I finally found a career inspiration that closely matches my lifestyle, my experience and my aesthetic! Today I discovered the story of Kate Fujimoto... a fashion designer - turned wife - turned event designer! Kate Fujimoto worked as a fashion designer and product manager for labels such as Trina Turk and Betsey Johnson. She was getting frustrated with the corporate structure and
felt that her aesthetic didn’t necessarily match up to some of the
companies she worked with. After planning her own wedding, Kate began to consider a career in event design. She took on small
events at first, but with a growing client list, the budding designer launched Kate Fujimoto Event Design in November 2007. With an emphasis on color, texture and trim, she treats events as landscapes similar to fashion designs, and applies her expertise to every aspect of presentation. Kate often looks to the venue first— much like she used to look to the human form—to find ways to enhance its features...Kate, you are my she-ro!
Check out this really unique and well designed flower shop in Greece! The name of the shop is Aktipis and it was designed by Point Supreme Architects. Discovered via Laissezfaire and Dezeen.
I'm loving these arrangements and overall table top display found over at Head of the Table! The horsetail or equisetum look so fabulous with the black ribbon and rhinestone buckles atop charcoal polished river stones!
Kelly Hoppen: Kelly Hoppen Style: The Golden Rules of Design
Kelly Hoppen: East Meets West: Global Design for Contemporary Interiors
Colin Cowie: Colin Cowie Wedding Chic: 1,001 Ideas for Every Moment of Your Celebration
Cindy Ng: Girligami: A Fresh, Fun, Fashionable Spin on Origami
Robyn Griggs Lawrence: The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty
Thich Nhat Hanh: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Maureen Whitehouse: Soul-Full Eating: A (Delicious!) Path to Higher Consciousness
David Kundtz: Quiet Mind: One-Minute Retreats from a Busy World
Michelle Cornell: Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging for Today's Interior
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