For a sexy lady

The title says it all. Don't need to guess who either, name's on the card. 

Pink

Growing up I was never that fond of pink colored things. Dark blue was my favorite as a kid but always found myself loving other colors too. I wouldn't say pink was my least favorite color but I was just never that girly. Growing up I learned about Pantone in art school and I thought that was pure genius but it got me even more indecisive when I have to choose colors for my projects. These days I just let the flowers speak to me when a client gives me complete freedom to do whatever the hell I want! So no more choosing colors from a chart, less headache. Plus you just gotta take what's available and deal with it.

Just me, myself and the Merc

This is the first time I did a wedding car all on my own. Was I nervous? Yes a little as I only figured out the technical part in my head but have yet to quite prove that it works in practice. As usual I will start prepping the small bouts and corsages the day before then sticking it into the fridge. Made the bouquet the next day and once I was done with that I rushed off to the couples place to face the car. I was left there alone in the car park of their apartment and I quickly unload my stuff and got to work. I rather enjoyed the alone time I had with the car because it was cooperative! It didn't complain and my technical part of the work seems to be working out great. Once that garland was secured I was racing against time to stick all the leaves and flowers in. It was getting dark, I was tired but thank God I packed myself a bottle of water. As I don't live in an apartment it didn't occur to me that the lights would come on when the sun sets. I felt a little silly when it came on, I guess I didn't have the darkness to worry about after all.

Reason #101

You don't really need a reason to send someone flowers really. So stop giving yourself excuses to not send any. But there are also a hundred and one reasons to give em. Number 101 here is - Because you helped settle my student card issue and I can now take my exams.

Box it

For most store openings you will find the usual congratulatory flowers right outside at the entrance, standing at 5.5ft up to 6ft at times. That's the norm. Personally I'm not a fan of those sort of flowers on stands and neither is this client. I was more than thrilled to make this and have it in a box with a rustic touch.

For the love of Hydrangeas

This was made for a girl who just LOVES hydrangeas.

If she could she would jump into a whole truck of it.

- xoxo -

Round and round

This delivery for the clients mom took me awhile to find the house. Can you believe that there's a map of that housing area for people to find the roads? I thought it was pretty funny but I did get a tad lost in there even with the map. Why do people need to live in such a complicated community? Although all the houses there are huge. I saw one house which was still under construction and the design was PERFECT for a Halloween party. I had to take a picture to show my best friend but I wont be sharing it here. I'm just babbling.... forgive me.

Flowers & Scones hits back

So a returning client wants to give more of these scones with flowers away. I must say its pretty fun to make them and therapeutic too. My current oven is broken and Amelia is now way too occupied with her other business (non bakery) to bake me anything. I will have a brand new oven once my new home is ready. Yup I'm moving! I can't wait to start baking again just for fun as I use to make pretty good cookies back then. The Mr. and I bought ourselves a red KitchenAid mixer but without our oven it still sits in the box. I also can't wait to set up my lil nook of a studio to make my flowers! I'm pretty darn excited bout that space...although I'm sharing it with the washing machine but that's all good. I can keep an eye on the laundry I guess.

Placid blue 2.0

Following from placid blue post, these are the flowers for the actual wedding day by the same client. I scored that giant hydrangea for her bouquet and mind you there's only ONE stalk in there. That's how big it was. By this point I really wanted to not see a hydrangea for a couple of week because it's exhausting keeping them alive. :/

New year's best start

Everyone looks forward to a new year. Fresh start, new beginnings, reason to party. It was indeed a new beginning for me. I left my corporate job in November to do flowers full time. I never thought I'd want to be a floral designer creatively called or just simply a florist. I have to say the new year started really well as I made my favorite bridal bouquet to date. I almost did not want to give it away but I did not have enough spares to make me another. I was really glad my client loved it too and the peony & hydrangea survived the wedding day despite our weather. To more favorite bridal bouquets!

Cupcakes for me

Well whadaya know! The bride client made me cupcakes! They taste really good too! 

He's probably not the one

It's really not the end of the world when you break up with your significant other. Trust me, it's not worth getting worked up on it (for too long). And sometimes you can count on a really good friend to cheer you up! Like sending you flowers when you least expect it. See? Who needs a significant other when real friends will always be there?

Happy Birthday Popo!

Don't you ever...ever use distance as an excuse! This young lady ordered these from Oz land for her grandmother's birthday. Men please take note. It really is the effort and thought that counts. Apparently this pot lasted way longer than it should have. I'm glad to hear that.

For mama with love

This was ordered by a male client for his momma! I made sure it will survive the trip up north. Clearly the pine cones and Amaryllis are a dead giveaway again that this is a very delayed post. My apologies.

Optimus Prime

I admit I LOVED THIS BOUQUET TO BITS! Why was I never given flowers like this??? Honestly I've never made anything this big so it was a great experience. I would LOVE to do it again. Somebody please order this or something similar again. Please? Pretty please?

Scones & flowers

I did a little collaboration with my friend Amelia who owns Baked By Yien, a home baker who specializes in scones. She makes them freshly and supplies to various cafes on a weekly basis. So we teamed up for a little holiday gifting idea just for fun...because it just seemed like fun to put them together. We received a pretty good amount of orders for such a quick project.

Flowers for the South

I was pretty stoked to make these for a company's annual dinner held in a state down south. I really did slave my butt off all night. My biggest fears when working with hydrangeas is a wilting one. I think they are complicated bunch because sometimes they are fine without air-conditioning, just heaps of cold water suffice but sometimes even sticking em back into the fridge doesn't work. I learned how to revive them on my own...slowly but surely through many trials and experimenting. I find it works best when you snip the stems short..say about 3 to 4 inches diagonally so it has a larger surface to absorb the water but I also snip the stem right in the middle, creating a slit at the end of the stem. I then add some flower food into cold water and stick the whole thing into the fridge. I kept checking on it the whole time I was up making flowers but it just looked dead in there. I decided to just let it sit inside and see the results the next morning. The next morning VOILA! It ressurected!! So I learned it can take up to 12 hours for it to slowly revive. 

 

Buffet flowers

I rather enjoyed making this one. Vase is wrapped with raw Shantung silk. This was ordered for Christmas so this gives you an idea how belated my posts really are. My sincere apologies.

To great husbands

A family friend ordered these for his wife. Well I must take some credit for suggesting these peonies when they were in season for a brief moment. I couldn't stop smelling them all night. Good choice.

She's all grown up

I practically watched Rebecca grow up since she was a baby and I just made her wedding flowers. made me reflect a little on life and thought how did my last 30 something years go by. It was a very very rough and sad day for me when I was making those blooms. It was the day Powder passed on. I shall not say further before more tears pour down. I guess God is good. He made me so busy, stressed to battle wilting flowers and the many quantities of floral items needed for Rebecca's big day. I also had her wedding car decor to make, not shown below as the lighting was so bad I am just gonna skip it here. It was quite hellish for me, dealing with death but I pulled myself together. So I made and made and made flowers till night. As I laid in bed, I bawled myself to sleep.