I had some leftover wheatgrass from the Kevin Bacon centerpieces, and I was going to a friend's house for dinner and wanted to bring a hostess gift, so I decided to use the wheatgrass in a creative way. As you know, I love making floral cakes, but I had n ...
The event was a bacon-themed dinner for 65 people from Amy's Culinary Adventures. So what to do for the centerpieces? For the past bacon dinners, I had used piggy banks or flying pigs, but this time I wanted to get away from the porcine nature of the even ...
If you're a ribbon hoarder like me, you have rolls and rolls of ribbon stashed away in drawers or gathering dust up on shelves, all just begging for a purpose in life. Well, until they adorn a bright package or finish off a craft project, why not turn tho ...
When I design floral arrangements, the leaves are usually an afterthought, the filler, if you will. But that's not really fair to these stalwart, green stalks. So I decided to look for a way to glorify them. And what better way to glorify the leaves than ...
One of my "go-to" floral arrangements when I don't have a lot of time but want to make an impression is the keepsake arrangement. I buy inexpensive keepsake boxes at Ross or Marshall's, line them with plastic, insert floral foam, and then add flowers. The ...
This floral arrangement started with a really big vase. Really big. And it was glass, and you know how I don't like to show flower stems through the glass. So I inserted a smaller vase within the bigger one, and lined the interior with phalaenopsis orchi ...
