Journal archive
November 7, 2011
A tea bowl is filled with colored and dried materials, I chose to use the colors in the same tonal range as the bowl. White colored kiwi vine, two shades of blue-green dried hydrangea and a dried sunflower. While I love fresh sunflowers I have really grown to love the dried ones so much more. […]
Read story →November 6, 2011
This moribana was made with materials from my garden. I have these wonderful large banana leaves, balloon vine and lace cap hydrangea. There still hasn’t been a real frost here(althought we have had snow) so the garden continues to have materials to use. Tomorrow is supposed to be 70 degrees so the weather is helping […]
Read story →November 5, 2011
For this arrangement I used the same container from yesterday, I think it’s important to show how many different things can be done in the same containers. It has some hydrangeas from my friend Sue’s yard, chrysanthemums from my garden and more of the red honeysuckle berries collected in the neighborhood. The open space does […]
Read story →November 4, 2011
This long low black container was just right for an arrangement showing space. It’s not a very big piece of pottery and it would be easy to overwhelm and overfill. I used the bird’s nest fern to create a hana kubari to anchor the curved akebia vine, and the vine itself to anchor the orange […]
Read story →November 3, 2011
A relatively simple design tonight, made with bird’s nest fern and a Japanese lantern. It casts an interesting shadow, one of the reasons i like it so much. It’s playful and fun, and just enought for today.
Read story →November 2, 2011
More manipulation of materials today, working once again with the equisetum. At some point I realized I had done too much manipulation on the equisetum, but I think it is necessary to see how far you can take it. This is the only way you can learn what works and what doesn’t and to discover […]
Read story →November 1, 2011
Like most ikebana enthusiasts I have lots of containers, some I use over and over and a few that have rarely or never been used. Today I thought I would pull one out and work with it. It’a great piece, but can be difficult to work with. Curved lines are what this black container is […]
Read story →October 31, 2011
A miniature ikebana arrangment today, inspired by the lovely pink begonia bloom. I wanted to use it since it is at the peak of perfection. So small so it had to be a minature ikebana. I chose a small white sake cup and curled up a single leaf of bird’s nest fern and place it […]
Read story →October 30, 2011
A quick post after traveling today, my arrangement was done this evening. I took a walk with Frederick and we found some berries that we think are some sort of honeysuckle. They are very translucent and went well with the single chrysanthemum I had left. It was a nice way to send my travel day. […]
Read story →October 29, 2011
The first part of my post today is about the stem of foliage seen above, it was the mystery foliage in the grocery store bouquet yesterday. Does anybody recognize this foliage? It’s very tender, and weirdly alomst plastic. On first glance (and second and third glance) it almost looks like a plastic piece of foliage […]
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