Journal archive
February 29, 2012
With some dry time in between heavy rains today I was able to gather a few things in the neighborhood to make my arrangement. A couple of cherry branches, one branches of winged euonymus( I MUST get more of it to work with later) and a few narcissus from our garden out back. Together it […]
Read story →February 28, 2012
A simple inoribana today, using flowers from the garden. The yellow narcissus are in full bloom and have lovely leaves to use. Soon the other varieties of narcissus will be in bloom too. Lovely blooming branches are appearing all around the neighborhood. I think spring is here at last!
Read story →February 27, 2012
This is what centered me, and helped provide some calm during a stressful day. It whispered to me “breathe”.
Read story →February 26, 2012
This is the view during my Saga ikebana class today, we were all working on seaside landscapes with pine and sand. It was interesting to work on moribana/landscape designs although a bit difficult to wrap my head around the connection between both at the same time. But it was a great class, reminding me how […]
Read story →February 25, 2012
Today I turned my exploration of materials towards filler flowers, the types of flowers that in western designs are used to cheaply take up space between more expensive showy blooms. I’m trying to get a different understanding of how I can use them in ikebana. After a trip to the grocery store for some flowers […]
Read story →February 24, 2012
Some days the ikebana arranging is not so easy, today was one of them. I worked on one design for about 90 minutes, and by the end it looked tortured. In fact it had been. I tried to get the materials to bend to my will, all the quince and other branches had been inserted […]
Read story →February 23, 2012
Something small today, not a miniature but not big either. Safari sunset protea and tulip magnolia branches in a vase that my partner Frederick bought at Miss Pixie’s yesterday. They post pictures on the “window shopping” section of their website that shows items they currently have for sale. I’ve picked up some wonderful ikebana vases […]
Read story →February 22, 2012
After a very low energy day yesterday, I am hoping that this arrangement shows a more energetic day. Maybe the warmer weather and sunshine today helped. I had more open materials to work with today and felt spring in the air, and this is my attempt to bring a bit of that indoors. While I […]
Read story →February 21, 2012
February 20, 2012
The lesson tonight at my Sogetsu ikebana class was disassembling and rearranging the materials. In the past this lesson has been more radical in the disassembling part, but we were encouraged to use it as more of an examination and study of the materials and how they work together. We were given narcissus and safari […]
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