DIY: Plante d’orchidée

Orchidée

Voici une façon toute simple et intéressante de présenter une plante d’orchidée pour un look très organique.

Ce dont vous aurez besoin:

• Une plante d’orchidées phalaenopsis blanc
• Un vase cylindrique d’au moins 10’’ de largeur et 24’’ de hauteur
• Une branche de curly willow
• De la mousse, une boule de vigne moyenne et des copeaux de bois

Comment faire:

1. Placer les copeaux de bois au fond du vase
2. Sortir la plante de son pot, y planter la branche de curly willow et enrober le tout de mousse
3. Ouvrir la boule de vigne et y insérer la plante enrobée de mousse
4. Déposer la plante à l’intérieur du vase, sur les copeaux
5. S’assurer de vaposiser régulièrement la mousse

Orchidée en arrangement organique

Quelques idées de décoration de Noël

Mon " arbre " de Noël

Je voulais partager avec vous quelques unes de mes décorations de Noël!

J’adore ajouter des petites touches ici et là, un sapin ce n’est certainement pas assez! Par contre, le tout doit être moderne et élégant. J’ai créé ce deuxième ’’arbre de Noël’’ à l’aide d’un grand vase transparant, j’y ait ajouté des bouts de troncs de bouleaux au fond et y ait placé des branches noires maléables au dessus. J’ai accroché à celles-ci des étoiles vertes scintillantes, le tout entouré d’autres petites touches d’éléments festif.

Je suis prête pour les fêtes, il ne reste plus qu’à attendre patiement le grand jour!

FLOWERS IN A CHRISTMAS TREE

Flowers in my Christmas Tree!

I had some left over flowers from a project we did … what to do with them?!

I couldn’t not pay attention to these beautiful cymbidium orchids, I just had to put them somewhere special. What more special than a Christmas tree! I love how they just sit there and brighten up my very modern shinny black tree with silver and green Christmas balls. Green cymbidiums would have looked even better for my decor, I think this is what I will do for the Holidays instead of a centerpiece.

Fresh flowers in a Christmas tree, love it! I can’t wait until Christmas, I am so excited!

My Amaryllis Adventure

The progress of an Amaryllis flower blooming

A few weeks ago, I got assigned a very important task, babysit some amaryllis flowers until they were fully bloomed and ready for a photoshoot! It was so much fun to observe the evolution, each stem usually has four blooms, and gradually they all started to pop one by one.
The amaryllis is definately a flower that I love, I like how juicy and big it gets once in bloom, but be carefull, these are very delicate flowers to play with! It was important for me not to touch them too much, and mostly to cut the stem shorter as the flowers started to open, creating weight on the fragile thick but hollow stem which could simply break in front of my eyes if it decided to.
Nothing beat having to transport these flowers from my house to our workshop … ouff … I made it with the amaryllis in one piece! I couldn’t wait to finally poke the flower inside the arrangements and call in truce, at that point the amaryllis is safe and you don’t need to worry about it anymore. What a journey with my friends the amaryllis, just like babies, they kept me busy for a couple days!

DIY: Orchid vase

Do it Yourself Orchids Vase

Here is a fabulous way to showcase orchids and an easy one too!

What you need:

1. A medium size cylinder vase
2. Orchids! Which ever type or colors (here purple dendrobiums)
3. Pandanus leaf
4. Monstera leaf

How to create this look:

1. Wrap the pandanus leaf at the bottom of the cylinder vase.
2. Add your orchids inside the vase making sure to adjust the leinght of the stems so the flowers don’t stand higher than the top of this one.
3. Top everything off with a beautiful monstera leaf, making sure the stem is tall enough to reach for water, but is hidden amongst the orchids.

Have fun!

Simple Tulip Vase

Beauty in the Simplicity of a Tulip Arrangement

We chose to showcase these pictures as a reminder of how simple can be a stunner.
Nothing crazy complicated about this arrangement, a bunch of white tulips in a cool round vase, that’s it!

Anyone can do this and don’t forget, simplicity and beauty is the key.

DIY: Fun and Modern Apple Arrangements

Red Apples arrangement

Making a impact doesn’t have to be complicated, sometimes it only takes a good idea, a few bucks and a couple minutes of your time.

Here is a simple and cheap way to decorate a vase, fill it with your favorite colored fruits or even veggies, mix and match to your taste and decor, fill with water and admire your work! You’ll notice that by adding the water you will get a much more interesting effect, your fruits and veggies will look like they grew in front of your eyes. For a fun effect you could also bunch up a piece of cellophane clear paper and throw it in the bottom of the vase before you add your fruits and veggies, looks like ice!

Apples are fun to use in floral  arrangements, take a look here at some designs we’ve created using apples.

If you try this idea don’t hesitate to share pictures with us, you can post them on our facebook wall

DIY: Make a Sexy Bouquet

How to make a sexy bouquet

A lot of things inspire us, here is a funny one; a sexy light pink and offwhite bras! Why not? Let us show you how to create this bouquet!

What you’ll need:

• 10 light pink double stocks
• 2 white hydrangeas
• wide offwhite satin ribbon
• narrow light pink satin ribbon
• small white feathers.

How to make it:

1. Bunch the pink double stock together.
2. Add the white hydrangeas around your bunch of pink double stock.
3. Tie the stems right under the the base of the hydrangea and cut the stems to about 6’’ long.
4. Start covering the stems with an offwhite satin ribbon working from the bottom of the stems all the way to the top.
5. When you get to the top, make a knot and a big bow, add another layer with a small light pink satin ribbon, crisscrossing it to create a corset look.
6. Stick white feathers randomly into the hydrangeas.

Here you go, you just got yourself one sexy bouquet!

DIY: Flower Balls

Gen doing a Flower Ball !

There is nothing more beautiful than a ball of fresh flowers! Now this isn’t a project for a very small budget, but we still thought we would share it with you since it is something fairely easy which can be done with so many different varieties of flowers.

What you’ll need:

1. A ball of floral foam.
2. A bunch of your favorite flowers (quantities depend on the size of the ball).
3. Patience!

How to start:

1. Make sure your ball of floral foam is well soaked with water.
2. Cut all your flower heads to the same length (leave about 2 inches of stem).
3. Start inserting the flowers in the floral foam, making sure to place these ones very close to each other.
4. Be gentle, you wouldn’t want the floral foam to fall apart …

So easy! In this case we used pink carnations, which works very well for this project, as carnations are not expensive, and the texture is this flower works well to give a beautiful final results. Though, I would suggest to let your imagination run wild!