Tout rouge...

I realized most of the pictures from the portfolio never made it onto the blog...

So I'll be showing them off in the next few months, along with pictures from upcoming weddings. I have so many interesting and creative clients this season, I feel very lucky and also very inspired... Looking forward to inventing new things and surprising myself and others...

Cream, lime and silver...

Fresh stuff as an "avant-goût" of spring...

This bride's bouquet is from last spring, but the spirea in my neighbourhood seems like it's just a couple of days from busting open like the little sprigs in this picture. I have a few branches being forced to comply to my timeline on my dining room table as we speak... But it's so warm outside they'll probably only be a few days earlier than the ones mother nature is forcing.

In this bouquet...

Cream double tulips, white renuncules, green cymbidium orchids, fuzzy succulents that I can't identify, tillandsia leaves (those twirly, silvery things), galax leaves, and local branches from spirea, pussy willow and viburnum.

Montreal Home Canning...

When it's cold and crappy outside, it can be pretty tempting to shop online instead of actually going outside of the house for supplies (and some air). You can usually find 100 times more choices than your local vendor carries, for cheaper, and they drop it off at your house...

Thankfully, some folks still make it outside once in a while, and places like Montreal Home Canning (not sure if that's their actual name or just what the sign says) can continue to exist. Walking into that shop is like traveling back in time... Back to when people canned, it seems, just about anything you could possibly think of. Most of the jars/cans/containers on their walls are for decoration, "our own little museum" as the owner says, but they were all sold there at one time or another. Now they sell slightly more contemporary fare, like cosmetics jars and medecine bottles. Most of their business is still good old mason jars, though...

Relaxing on Valentine's...

Are you really a real florist if you don't work on Valentine's Day?

Well, after years of sleepless nights and stressed-out days in February, I get to do nothing! Actually, I'll be studying all day at the library, which now that I think of it seems like the exact opposite of Valentine's in the shop... Still, a small part of me will miss the rush and the atmosphere, so I did a little tour to see what others were doing... Studio Choo, always a favorite, is proposing these...

Autumn gleaning...

Ah!

The things you can find in the city...

Magnolia branches, blue juniper (with berries!), euphorbia, rosehips, and a few books, too.

Can't wait for damn winter to be over...

~abundance~

"Abundance is not something we acquire.

It is something we tune into."

(Dr W. Dyer)

The bower...

And we humans think we're so special...

Watch this now!

The Australian bowerbird decorates his house (this is definitely something other than a nest) with flower blooms, beetle wings, acorns...

And David Attenborough has to have the sexiest voice I've ever heard...

Thanks to Resurrection Fern for always posting the most interesting little things...