Journal archive
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 […]
Read story →February 19, 2012
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 inspired I decided to just grab some materials and work. It’s mostly color work with pink(the quince and hyacinth) and green(hypericum berries and equisetum. To […]
Read story →February 17, 2012
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 so I can use the different varieties in combination. A short walk in the nearby monastery was great for viewing early spirng camellias, snowdrops and […]
Read story →February 16, 2012
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 your had comfortably. In it I used one of the “Mickey Mouse” anthuriums, fading and drying but they still have some beauty and a single […]
Read story →February 15, 2012
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 and this one has a great shape and color too. It’s perfect for spring/summer ikebana! In it I placed some budded magnolia tulip branches first, […]
Read story →February 14, 2012
It took a long time to figure out my arrangement for Valentine’s Day. Traditional red and white flowers just were not on my radar today. I’m not a big fan of red and white flowers for a holiday that follows Christmas so soon. So I did work out an alternative, some pink, red and blue […]
Read story →February 13, 2012
February 12, 2012