Journal archive
June 29, 2012
Another quick simple arrangement as today is a travel day for me. I’ve spent the whole week with my family showing them around town, now we’re heading out of town together. I’ll have some quiet time to do more ikebana, and relax.
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June 25, 2012
June 24, 2012
June 23, 2012
Today I did a little more work on braiding palm leaves, this time with phoenix palm. It has a very small leaf, interesting to work with but I think the areca palm I uesed a few days ago works much better. However I did learn more about how to do the braiding, so I will […]
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June 21, 2012
Earlier in the week I promised my sensei that I would continue to work on my weaving and leaf manipulation practice. Today I used the only palm leaf I had to do this piece for today’s ikebana, not perfect but still a pretty good start. With the woven palm leaf I used a stem of […]
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June 19, 2012
June 18, 2012
My lesson assisgnment for my Sogetsu ikebana class tonight was to do the lesson on intertwining materials. I was given some palm and zebra grass and a single hydrangea bloom for color. It started out great and I worked on weaving the palm and after some work almost had it finished, but then I could […]
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