A Patriotic Flower Design

I do not consider myself to have a lot of design skills especially when it comes to flower arranging but I do have a passion for arranging flowers. I guess one would say it is a stress reliever for me and I get caught up in it if you can imagine that. That probably means I should do it more often. It is very different from cutting flowers from your garden and placing them in a pitcher or vase. It is a passion of mine and I hope that I hone my skills each time I arrange flowers.

Recently my husband and I were co-hostess's with several other couples for a political fund raiser. I was asked to do an arrangement for our food table.

It was a tall arrangement so I had to put it together in my kitchen on my French Pastry table, the ceilings were higher. I most often do my flower arranging in my laundry room since I have a deep sink there. In the laundry room the above cabinets interfered with the height of the arrangement. Most often I would have done this arrangement on site where it would be sitting but that wasn't possible since the Woman's Club would have charged us so much more for a couple of extra hours. Sooooooo, you make the adjustment but transporting this arrangement was kind of freaky. Let me just say that I sighed a breath of relief when it arrived to the destination all in one piece, it was very top heavy.

The added beauty of it was that I brought it home to enjoy for several more days. The container was one I had bought many years ago when my first son to marry had their rehearsal dinner. I had done an arrangement in this container for that event so it has a lot of sentimental value to me. I also used it for my two other children when they married. The container works perfectly on a food table since the arrangement is high enough that food actually can be served under it as well and doesn't take up a lot of room.

I had never done an arrangement with a patriotic theme either so this was fun. From picking out the flowers to actually putting the arrangement together.

 

I like to think of it as a work of art and I'm enjoying the heck out of the arrangement after our event. It is holding up very well after several days.

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