This is the bouquet I made for the flower show the second time I took the class. The second-years make "Challenge Bouquets." The girls are put in groups of three and each have to make a bouquet that is distinctly different from the other girls' bouquets. The challenge? All three have to use the exact same kinds of flowers. They can vary the amounts, but if one girl uses a flower, they all have to use it. We were also supposed to use some "bling" (to quote my professor)in our bouquets. My bling was a metal dragonfly pendant that I attached to the bouquet handle.

Two of the flowers my group used were pink gladiolus and pink roses. I used those flowers to make a few composite flowers. A composite flower is two or more flowers put together to make one new flower. Each composite flower has two gladiolus flowers and several rose petals.

Random Arrangements

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My Bouquet for the Floral Arts and Event Show

This is my C Bouquet. People emphasizing in floral design take the Wedding Flowers class three times (A, B, and then C). It's this class that puts on the flower show every year. This year, the C girls were supposed to go to DI (a thrift store), buy something that wouldn't normally be in a wedding bouquet, and use it in a bouquet. My DI item was the wooden thing around the handle. I think it used to be a place mat, but other people have said they thought it was a sushi mat. Either way, I think the bouquet turned out very well. I especially like the rooster tail. That was made by taking a ti leaf, cutting the middle vein several times, and tearing it into pairs of strips that look like rooster tails.
This bouquet used one ti leaf, one white hydrangea, several leucadendron, and one place mat or sushi mat. Sadly, I don't remember what the silver-ball flowers are called.

Interpreting Artwork

For this project, everyone was supposed to interpret a piece of artwork, and at the same time, interpret the artist. I chose a painting of Snow White, a watercolor painting by Jill McLeod Miller.

The Torii Gate Project

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Torii Gates are found in several Asian religions, such as Shinto. These gates symbolize entering a sacred place. They can be placed in front of shrines or in a sacred place in nature.

Wedding flowers

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The Fountain of Youth

For one of my classes, we were given a mystery material and we had to use it in an arrangement. Our mystery material was a water bottle. I used about eight water bottles and made a fountain.

This arrangement uses Alstromeria (the white flowers), hypericum berries (the red), leucadendron (the dark red-purple), agapanthus (the blue), lily grass, and eucalyptus (the green-grey). I used the blue and white flowers to represent water, and I used the other colors to add interest and variety. The eucalyptus worked very well for filling in remaining space.

Here is an arrangement I made using an armature (the sticks in the back). I like that natural, garden feel that it has.