Suddenly summer is ending, and it’s gone so fast I kind of just want it to be Christmas already! But this past few weeks everyone has come out of their nooks and crannies and wants to have fun- all of us over-worked hyper busy adults are sheeshing and shirking hypnotic, distracted, doldrums of work / …
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Paper flowers! This high style, mid-summer wedding was a dream, collaborating with a London based landscape architect and film composer in love! Each flower was hand painted and hung separately so every individual petal and paint stroke was illuminated as they spun over the dance floor, a revelry powered mobile …
We were lucky to be working inside of a tree museum this past weekend at The Morton Arboretum. This incredibly sweet couple of love-bird, low-key architects wanted decor with clean lines and organic loveliness for their wedding; so we served up tons of fragrant tuberose, plus lace-cap hydrangea and garden roses in sleek kiri wood boxes …
Sugar sweet wedding flowers last weekend- cotton candy poufs of pink “Verana” hydrangea and late season Sarah Bernhardt peonies. Heres a big tip I just confirmed, Peony’s adore flower food, they hog it down like Y.N. Rich kids snacking on Hot Cheetos and Takis. These quadrupled in size for us in just 3 days and are …
We found this volunteer cherry tree in the studio’s backyard last week and thought we’d share this patriotic tableau with you! Have a gorgeous holiday filled with deliciousness, folly and ease!!
This Bar Mitzvah had a black-light/neon theme with a touch of OFWGKTA. These geometric lanterns were a blast to produce and looked great along with glow-in the dark cotton candy and negative space created by black table cloths and decor. Champagne snowball!
For this super cool flower arranging girl’s 2nd birthday party we brought the outside in, with a “rug” of lush green ivy from California. If only we had stayed to see the baby party get wild!!
It’s really exciting to be included in an article about the new fashion in flowers in this month’s issue of Traditional Home. Julia Szabo wrote a brilliant story on how, after “decades of male dominance” women designers are taking the lead with wild, lyrical arrangements and ” … letting Mother Nature show her true colors.” …
Here are some snaps from the sample for a super glam 80th Birthday party next weekend. We will share more photos later!
The Garfield Park Conservatory here on the westside is a cathedral for nature worship right off the green line. I’ve never seen it being humidified before, the effect is awe inspiring. Now hurtling into feverish holiday decorating, we discovered another westside treasure right under our noses, Beret Ribbon. My favorite echevaria succulent, the velvety hybrid “Doris Taylor” …