KSKeith Stanley

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February 7, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 205

I’m in love with this ikebana I did tonight, simple and sleek. The dried banana leaf is just amazing. Dried leaves of all shapes and sizes really do work well for ikebana, so you should save some of your fresh leaves from arrangements(or from your household or summer plants) and dry them.

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February 6, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 204

Tonight I went to my Sogetsu ikebana class to take a lesson. We were given calla liles, strelitzia leaves and galax to work with and asked to choose a lesson that would suit the materials. We chose to do “vertical composition”. After class I brought the materials home and remade it to photograph, not easy […]

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January 31, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 198

My inoribana arrangement from yesterday was so much fun that I thought I would try it again today. I had a great selection of flowers to use, a tulip, red twig dogwood and palm leaf. It looks pretty good, and it makes me look forward to my ikebana lesson Sunday when I will get to […]

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