Rich hues

Rich hues to channel more fortune in to my life. HAHA!

It's the weekend!

It's always so good to have coffee with the Mister on weekends and arguing...I mean discussing about the new house we're moving in to. I'm so stoked! Did I mention I will have my little nook of a space to make my flowers? Yes it's gonna be my little studio.

By the way it never fails that the 2nd cup of latte always has better coffee art than the 1st and my Mister the gentleman that he is always will always always let me have that cup first. I usually wait till the 2nd cup comes then swap with him. Why can't the 1st latte have the better art? Why?

Jo Malone Press Presentation

It's always fun to make flower crowns.. but not when you have to make them for 3 days at a larger quantity. My poor fingers. But I'm pleased to add Jo Malone of London in to my portfolio :D

House warming

Fate has brought me back to the housing community with the map! HA! Funny how I keep coming back to this place, it's my 3rd time but it's not ordered by any of the past clients. Luckily this one went to a home which was way easier to find...piece of cake!

From Oregon with love

This bouquet was ordered from Oregon, Portland and was the last order I took before the CNY festive break. I couldn't say no when I'm given full creative freedom. :D

Valentine's day madness

I did a Valentine's day wedding for the first time. It's not the best day to have a wedding or the best month even as prices of flowers are up 3 times more than usual. So if you are reading this and if you are not yet married, please take note.

I made 2 bouquets the day before as the 1st one was just unlucky as 1 of the hydrangeas wilted on me and to make things worse, someone was not careful with it when I placed it in the refrigerator of the groom's house the night before (Chinese tradition where the groom brings the bride her bouquet in the morning) and when they slammed the door, they slammed 1 part of my precious Phalaenopsis orchid off. Stress levels rising by this point as I was exhausted from making the flowers on the wedding car.

Went home, redid another one went to bed by 1am. By 4:30am I was up, I had to get ready, load all the stuff in to my little car and head to the hotel to make more flowers for the night. I slaved all day and barely ate to make 35 arrangements for guest tables, 6 large arrangements for the walkway, registration table, photo table, bride & grooms chair and 4 more boutonnieres for the family and the flowers for the stage decor. 35 arrangements doesn't seem like many but time was robbed prepping the raw flowers before we could start with the arrangement. So plenty of lessons to be learned from just 1 night. Here's just some of the photos from the night taken by my crappy iPhone. I'm still waiting for the good ones by the photographer. Enjoy. :)

Final hour

Some advise for floral orders during a festive season. Order ahead and never at the very last day of the final hour before everything closes. I grabbed what's left that's good for this very last nano second order for a friend. I'm sorry it wasn't as big as you wanted but everything was sold out.

Pour Le Dentiste

I was asked to make a masculine gift by the wife of a dentist. I really don't know how to translate that so I suggested maybe a rustic looking crate gift basket with some flowers. She was cool with it so I proceeded with making this. I should have made an appointment to scale my teeth on the day I delivered it coz I'm kinda a lil overdue. :/ Oh well.