Day 55 – 24 Feb 2019
My weekdays consist too much of work work work so basically, my free time are on weekends. And sometimes, the husband works on weekends so I have to find my own entertainment.
And I did 😂 besides chores, that’s it.
I went for a bridal bouquet workshop yesterday and it was fully paid by the husband 😏
By the way, those were my breakfast. I always have issues peeling hard boiled eggs and it drives me nuts that sometimes I succeed and sometimes, my nails dig into the pretty egg white.
My eggs obsession aside..
I followed this freelance florist on Instagram called Florahera and I love everything that she did with flowers. Everything just looks gorgeous!
Sooooooo.. when she announced that she has a workshop, so I signed up! And Mister U paid for it so double yay!
The workshop was held in this place called General Space and it’s in Sec 16. It’s a really gorgeous white space for events so it was a nice sight when I opened the door to the workshop.
The workshop was all about bridal bouquet and we were all “taught” about the floral business as well.
From getting flowers from suppliers, conditioning the flowers and basically.. the A to Z of the business.
Some of the participants actually are in the business but as for me, I was there for fun!
The owner of Florahera, Fara supplied us with premium and imported flowers like these gorgeous looking ranunculus.
I’ve never seen ranunculus before. It was my first time yesterday and I love it. It reminded me a bit of water lily and perhaps, a wee bit of eustoma as well. Either way, it’s gorgeous!
Gorgeous tulips! 😍
But tulips have issues surviving in our heat so they have to live in lots of water and yes, air conditioned places.
My ever favorite eustoma!
My ROM bouquet was actually of this color combination too!
Not too sure what’s it but it’s like a mini blue pineapple 🤣 I think it’s called thistle. Not too sure.. but I like that i learned about different textures of flowers.
Burgundy eustomas are gorgeous too!
Imported roses in the shade of caramel and I learned that we need to sometimes blow into the roses to kinda like expand it to let it breathe.
Why? Simply because they were traveling in static mode from another country hence we need to initiate their blooming by touching it or blowing it to “wake” them up.
We were all given a mood board assignment and mine was blush and blue 😬
Before the assignment starts, we went through flower salutation by giving respect to the flowers. We used lavender and damn, it was calming. Think I’ll get more dried lavender to keep in the house next time!
Fara was teaching us the French spiraling technique. It’s a European style of making a bouquet.
Here’s how it should look like after spiraling them into a bouquet.
Then, we learned to categorize the bouquet into four parts – primary flowers, secondary, tertiary and foliage.
Primary flower is usually the focal flower followed by the company of secondary and tertiary flowers which are smaller in sizes as compared the primary flower.
As for foliage, it’s usually leaves.
I think my favorite part of the workshop was choosing flowers because there were some flowers that I’ve not seen before! I especially like the berries!
My first attempt was a failure haha! I used too many primary flowers and it was all too crammed together.
I need some space in between the primary flowers by using secondary and tertiary flowers. And of course, foliage as well.
Second attempt – #successkid
So yay to that! Nailed the moodboard color and the French spiraling technique.. well, almost 🤣
This was my final result.
I used anemone, ranunculus, roses, thistles, berries, leaves and some unknown foliage that I am unsure of. I even added dried lavender so my bouquet will smell amazing!
I had fun and I really learned a lot from the workshop. So all I need to do know is practice, practice and practice.
EMOCHEE 