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Can you believe September is already here??  I’m in shock and too busy to worry about it.  But still trying to enjoy what is left of summer.  So, just a quick post tonight as I have too many things going on right now.  But I still wanted to share some flowers with you.  I put together a quick little arrangement with some leftover blue wedding flowers and a few white flowers from my garden this afternoon.  Quick and easy was all I had time for today.

Can you believe how good the blue sea holly still looks??  I just love it!!  It really does not take much to create a little arrangement that can dress a table and warm a home!

Enjoy!

Yellow really is a great colour to add to your day when you need a little cheer!  Life is busy around here and a little pick me up was needed, so I grabbed for the yellow flowers for today’s post.

I was on the search for sunflowers, but I had no luck locating any nice ones.  All I could find was mouldy, yucky looking ones that would have just made a big mess.  So, I went for the next best thing, yellow Chrysanthemum daisies, which I found at the local grocery store for $9.99.  A good buy for the number of stems in the bunch and they are guaranteed to last 7 days.

I made a hand-tied bouquet with the daisies and placed it in a short white ceramic vase.  The white vase was a perfect choice, great contrast against the yellow which allows the colour to standout.

Yellow!!  Just a little bit is all you need, the perfect happy colour!!!

Enjoy!

I had the pleasure of creating the wedding flowers for a lovely couple for their big day on Saturday, August 21st.  The couple was after a unique, contemporary assortment of flowers, in white, cobalt blue and espresso brown.

Cobalt seems to be a very popular colour for weddings this year; this is one of the two weddings I have booked that have this pretty shade of blue in the colour scheme.  In order to keep with the theme, I suggested white dahlias, white mini callas, blue sea holly and poppy seed pods sprayed espresso brown.  The bride loves Gerbera daisies, so those were a must, I suggested white Gerberas with brown centres.

The groom was after a masculine boutonnière, no pretty flowers, so I used blue sea holly and espresso poppy pods to create the “flowers” for the guys.  I then finished them off with espresso brown ribbon and a white pin.

So, I think big congratulations to Leta and Nick are in order!  I hope you had an absolutely wonderful day and may your marriage be full of love!!  Thank you for allowing me to be part of your very special day, it was truly an honour!

Creating things by hand makes me happy, it is an important part of my everyday life and my business.  I like to know when things are homemade and I prefer to buy handmade goods.

With that being said, this post is a little difficult for me, as I have come to learn that I truly prefer to work with flowers from my own garden, grown by nature in the great outdoors.  The difficulty is that I currently have no flowers to work with that are from my garden.  We cannot have it all, right?

So, I found this cute fresh cut bouquet for $5 at the local grocery store and it brought back that inspiration that went missing.  All I could think about when I picked up the flowers was how cute they will look in the little blue pitcher!  I think I was right!

Molly Wizenberg’s ‘A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table‘ inspired this little photo shoot. If you have not read this yet I highly recommend you do, but do not read it on an empty stomach.  I also strongly suggest you check out her blog, Orangette, for some yummy reads and home cooking inspiration.

My apologies for not posting last week, life has been too busy and something had to give, unfortunately it was the blog post.  Fingers crossed I can make it up to you and share some of my interior work very soon.  Things are a brewing over here at Living Fresh!

Enjoy!