Journal archive
February 7, 2012
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.
Read story →February 6, 2012
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 […]
Read story →February 5, 2012
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January 31, 2012
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 […]
Read story →January 30, 2012
Yesterday I made my return to my Saga Goryu ikebana classes after missing a few classes during December. The shogonka arrangement I posted yesterday was from our class lesson, and we had intended to do a second lesson (inoribana) but ran out of time. So today I thought it would be fun to try doing […]
Read story →January 29, 2012