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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Perhaps today is not my best effort, but it was nice to play with the materials and get something to photograph. I thought about it all day long, not feeling
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Some of the materials from two days ago, narcissus and lily grass, have been reworked for today’s ikebana. I am anxiouly awaiting the narcissus in the garden to start blooming
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Here is the other ceramic piece that I bought at Manassas Clay, it’s a sweet little piece by Linda Becketti. It’s really small, a cup that you can hold in
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A few weeks ago I bought a few new ceramic pieces at Manassas Clay and today I used one of them for my ikebana arrangement. I love slab built pieces