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Mom: This would've been the Christmas party, which maybe would have been the weekend before Christmas.
Me: So you would've gone to Nanny's at Christmas?
Mom: Well we alternated between Nanny and Grandma's.
Me: But your party wasn't THE Christmas party, right?
Mom: No, I think I usually did it the weekend before Christmas.
Even a straightforward design like this one still needs some attention to detail. I needed to line the vases planted with rose shrubs with cello, as when I watered them, they made the vase see through.
These baskets are designed to hang in the branches of a tree while you pick the fruit. However they look lovely bursting with Chrysanthemum blooms.
Using peonies alone was going to be a challenge. How could I create a display that would have some impact, even when the flowers were in tight, insignificant bud?
The solution to was create a landscape with sleek black vases and allow stem and leaf a chance to play with the shapes of the vases until the blooms exploded into a ball of red.
The Stride dining furniture range was designed by Kay+Stemmer for the Heal's ReDiscovers Collection. They took their inspiration from the Utility dining furniture designed by Christopher Heal in the 1950s.
Made from solid American oak, every joint, dimension and material is considered. Robust and simple, Stride has an unmistakably contemporary feel.
It's St. David's Day on March 1, and being Welsh, I knew I had to use daffodils this week. To get the shape in the urn right, I used one of the trellis balls I have previously used threaded with amaryllis. The ball held all the stems in place while remaining invisible, being the same colour as the stems of Forsytha. It allowed me to control the shape of the arrangement much more easily than floral foam, which would have disintegrated from the use of so many stems. Not a stem moved during transit.
Exterior detail of a newly completed apartment building on the edge of Oxford. Taken in my role of in-house photographer for Riach Architects. The building recently won an Oxford Preservation Trust Environmental Award.
The lamps above the bar are made from recycled glass, which was the cue for this series of terrariums in recycled glass jars.
This splendid Frida Kahlo one of a kind brooch is made to my original design.
The jewelry made from needle felted wool (100% wool), handmade embroidery and Czech cristal beads.
by Nufar Livny Laskov
These Phalenopsis were not quite as showy as I would have liked. I grabbed a handful of Polygonum sticks and a water phial and cable-tied the lot together before placing in waterless vases and adding the stems of phalenopsis.
Miss Sakura- hand crafted mixed media art doll. Made to my original design, each doll is a unique one of a kind piece of art.
The doll head was made with needle felted wool, hand embroidered accessories and plastic body.
Miss Sakura has piercing green eyes and white powder face, she is wearing a floral scarf and lovely spotted dress.
Farewell to the Connaught! This will probably be my last design for The Connaught, as I will soon be taking control of a bigger contract at a bigger hotel. Keep watching this space, as I will not be posting until things are up and running.
When you're wandering around Barcelona it easy to be dazzled by the likes of Gaudi and Calatrava but there's plenty of other more subtler Contemporary architecture as well. (though admittedly there's a fine line between subtle and bland with buildings like this one).
I really enjoy creating my weekly design for Koffman's, as it is an opportunity to get stuck into a bit of styling. It's very unfortunate the natural light is minimal in the Restaurant, making it just about impossible to capture the true feel of my design and make it seem three dimensional.
It will be an ongoing challenge to develop Koffman's in such a way that I can communicate my ideas clearly in my photographs without the magical element of natural light.
I had planned to use coloured vases for this display, but when I saw them in conjunction with the hydrangeas I changed my mind. As hydrangeas are still expensive at this time of the year, I knew I had to create some kind of design that relied on single heads in individual vases in order to have any kind of impact. The white canes were a cheap, if fiddly way to give some volume in the large reception space.
The use of Ornithogalum arabicum was a last minute thing: my Dutchman had sent them to replace flowers that had died in another area of the hotel, however they had small heads and were too insignificant to use on their own. Here they served as the ideal transitional material between the hydrangeas and the canes.
Didn't get my exposures right with my new camera (I don't like the camera's auto settings, so shoot manually). Will shoot in RAW and try bracketing exposures next time. Trial and error!
Eye-popping colour was the key to making this week's display work. After my grouping of trees, I knew I needed another large-ish arrangement this week, so that the absence of the trees would not be such a big shock.
The birdcage is just the perfect shape and size for the Espelette table, however the white bars demanded a strong flower to have any impact inside the cage. Oncidium orchids (known as 'Dancing Ladies' or 'Golden Shower'), seemed like the ideal candidate.
I've avoided them before, assuming they're short lived, but we've had one in the shop a while now, which still looks good. Getting them to look right in the cage was a bit tricky and took three people to maneuver into place.
I really wasn't sure the gloriosa lilies were going to work until we put them in the test tubes, but I knew the caged orchids were not going to be enough of a feature on their own. The Flaming Katies in pots were an afterthought which I might change, but the colour ties in with the butterflies I attached and the effect is kind of 'shabby chic', especially with the rusty bits of cage.
The white delphiniums I used for this area had turned to confetti by yesterday, so I had to take flowers intended for another area to remake this display. I rather like this combo, so will probably use it again.
This avant garde big flower necklace one of a kind statement necklace was created by hand.
The body of this collar necklace is needle felted wool (100% wool), swarovski colorful cristal stone, light turkiz Czech beads and colorful embroidery thread.
My inspiration for this necklace comes from Russian folk art and Japanese manga culture.
by Nufar Livny Laskov
I'm not a great lover of double amaryllis 'Nymph'. Yet used in a simple manner, it is very effective.
I have not used Dicentra spectabilis, 'Bleeding Heart' before. I saw it in a picture of Daniel Ost's work, so I knew it must be available as a cut flower. It is very cheap, which has lead me to believe it must be short-lived. We will probably have to replace the whole lot on Friday, so I needed a very simple design for ease of maintenance.
The intense pink flowers are counterbalanced by the strong-coloured vases: their lime green colour matches the wall on the opposite side of this display, in the Events area in the hotel.
Spring has sprung!