I make it a habit to visit the farmer's market every weekend to buy some fresh veggies and to check out any flowers. I'm not sure what farm I keep buying from because they don't have a poster or banner up, but they have had some really beautiful and reasonably priced flowers for sale. For some reason a white, yellow, and pink color palette really appealed to me that day because I picked up bunches of carnations and gerbera daisies and made my way home. I was able to get three different arrangements out of the bunches I purchased and my home was very colorful and cheery for the rest of the week. I did a little free-standing, no foam table arrangement. I also added some gyp and alstroemeria. Let me just say that I never can get alstroemeria to cooperate with me and it never lasts long. I have classmates who say that they can get theirs to last for a week and on day five mine all fall apart. Any tips? Maybe I mixed them with some other flower that repels them. Who knows. The one thing that I learned from this weekend was that I need to buy less mass and focal point flowers and more green and filler. I get so excited by the big, showpiece flowers that I buy too many and they just overpower each other and end up getting squashed together.
Here's another view of it sitting on the coffee table.
I also got to practice a foam design at home. This was the first time using foam outside of the floral design workshops and I'd say it was positive. I still don't really like using foam, but it's definitely needed sometimes.
And last, I stuck whatever I had left in a vase and called it a day.
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