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FLOWERS GALORE - GIFTS FOR DECORS
Recently we went on a free tour given by our local garden club in a nearby community with a lot of medium-priced homes ($130,000 to $200,000) and was inspired by the creative landscaping and flower gardens. We were surprised that some of these home owners invested $10,000 to $20,000 just on their home landscaped gardens. Some did it on a budget themselves over a few seasons. Two different home owners used their junk mail accumulated for a few months to build up the flower beds. Others hired someone to do the landscaping.But, not one devoted anywhere near the energy to decorate indoors with flowers as they did outdoor. So,
we decided to decorate our house using our silk flowers to create our
indoor silk flower arrangement landscape. Wow!!! Were we surprised at how
our floralscape transformed our interior and our lives. We found all kinds of ways
our silk house plants dressed up empty corners,
blank walls, hallways, entryways, stair cases. Mantles, fire places,
window sills.
When the seasons change or when we feel we need a change, we just redecorate with silk flowers. Without re-decorating the whole house, no changing wall paper, re-painting walls, or moving furniture, we get really amazing results just by moving our silk flower house plants around from day to day. It's therapeutic. Our artists, Caroline and Ken developed their floral design styles inspired by plants, flowers, and foliage found in real life.
We wanted to appeal to people who appreciate fine landscape gardening, flower gardens, and good interior design, but we envisioned our arrangements, house plants, wall designs, silk bonsai, butterfly garden, and other designs. We let our imagination evoke scenes from a specific place or sometimes an mixing and matching combos that might not be technically botanically correct or might ever appear in nature. But, if we liked a design on concept, we just went with it. We imagined what it felt like when we experienced a walk in the forest when shafts of sunlight broke through woods to spotlight a cluster of flowers of foliage on a forest floor. We recently walked through a former ice age bog fairly close to our house and imagined what it it must have been like when the ice first melted and the flowers bloomed again. Our arrangements last a long time. We displayed some arrangements in our home and workplace for over 15 years and these only required an occasional dusting. We do some intimate arrangements suitable for a small space on a night table, maybe a bathroom widow sill. Get two, three, or four at a time. These also make great hostess gifts when going to a party or are perfect as table favors.
Caroline has this thing where she likes to use every day, easy-to-obtain-in-local store items for containers or bases. She likes the challenge of making something beautifully understated from simple items. These she believes are easy to live with, age well, and can serve to complement a decor in more places than one spot in one room. She thinks that if the arrangements are to dramatic or too spectacularly colorful, she'll get tired of it.
Our founder Caroline in her travels first learned with a master flower arranger over 70 years ago with real flowers. Today she uses silks because she couldn't bear to see her works die away after two or three weeks. After studying a formal style, she studied with another master in a more free form style. But, both teachers were part of a tradition going back 400 years. Caroline has since developed her own style and school. Ken apprenticed with Carol before developing his own school as well. What makes us a little different is that Caroline started her silk flower business when she was 90 years old. One-of-a-kind silk flower designs for creative decorating & gifts . |
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