Three Dollar Florals

It's surprising what you can find in a dollar store. These arrangements are going to be dropped into some baskets we've already got. I had one round piece of floral foam and one large square one which I cut in half and trimmed to a size like the round one so I paid 1.00 for the round one and fifty cents each for the other two.

I bought six little bouquets: 1 rose, 2 carnations, 2 white tulips and one red one. I divided them among the three arrangements.

Here they are packed up and ready to deliver.

Floral arranging with silk or fabric flowers

 When I do flowers at home I always do fresh from my garden, especially when planning to draw or paint them but for the senior center I just work with the silk and fabric flowers that they have available. I'll be adding a few things to these purple ones next time I drop in.

 I wanted to keep this arrangement low and wide so  that It wouldn't block the sensor when it's in place under the TV. It's a little unusual looking because there were 2 daffodils but only one of everything else.

On the bright side of that is the fact that you get a very different look each time you turn it so it will keep us from getting bored.

home and back on the road with flowers

 Bright colors will help them last the summer. If you use too many pale colors they'll fade too fast.

I chose summer wildflowers because they'd always lived on a farm.

 Those pots are heavy so be sure to tuck them into the seats and use the seat belts to keep them in place until until you get to your destination.

 The important thing is that your heart is in the right place. The butterflies lend a sense of lightness and love. They arrangements may not be beautiful but they are kind of sweet, aren't they?

Floral Arrangements

Here are the floral arrangements that I wrote about on Friday. It's a recycling  effort using a bunch of old silk flowers that I cleaned and repaired.

This smaller arrangement is made of 3 prefab  clumps (multi color tulips, white tulips and yellow mums) rather than taking them apart I just grabbed then one at a time, pushed and pulled until they were more or less interwoven. There were a few empty stems where blossoms had fallen off over the years so I popped the purple blooms on those. This time of year it's really nice to see a little spring color and brightened up things a lot. (including my mood)

Floral Friday

I spent the morning making bows, sorting silk flowers and making a few arrangements for the local senior center but I forgot to take a camera along so that I could show them to you.
Back at home my poinsettia is still blooming and I may do some drawings or watercolors of that.

Todays flowers & ideas for watercolors

As I was working  in the garden I shot these photos with an eye to composition for subjects of watercolor notecards this week. I'll post the results as soon as I finish any of them.

Daffodils

As you can see from the first photo it's going to be a while before there are any real daffodils here. Luckily there were some old, nasty silks from some cemetary arrangements that I'm pulling apart to redo this year so I really loved the idea of taking this old, dead energy and trying to spin it into something positive before they're disposed of. This bright little painting was the result and of course the money from it's sale will buy new and better flowers for my Mom & Dad in laws graves ...and the cycle continues. Somewhere in the back of my head old songs play "the beat goes on" and "will the circle be unbroken". Art, music, memories and life that made my week intersting and left me smiling.