Having Fun with Flowers: Design Workshops, Special Event Florals
Rose and Twig is pleased to have created Chicago themed gift bags for a corporate event in the Windy City. Items included Frango mints, a Garrett popcorn gift card, Chicago guides and maps, Chicago post cards, and a souvenir ornament from a talented Chicago artist. 
Arrangements in the fall are full of colorful blooms of orange, gold, bronze and shades of red plus berries, twigs, pumpkins. Love this time of year . . .
The weather was beautiful when an outdoor bridal shower took place in late September. The bride’s color theme is dark purple with accents of lime green. Timing was perfect to create a centerpiece using a real white pumpkin from the farmer’s market.
Rose and Twig was pleased to design centerpieces for FIS’s IBS corporate picnic. Gerbera daisies in fall shades of yellow, orange and dark red were accented with spray roses and seeded eucalyptus.
Here is a cute idea for a floral favor at a shower, wedding, corporate event . . . a ‘basket’ made of an aspidistra leaf. So cute . . . this technique was demonstrated at a WUMFA workshop by Doug Jaeger, Certified Florist. All kinds of possibilities exist …
Love this … Bridal shower, wedding, baby shower ?
These centerpieces are ready for a September wedding shower. The bride is incorporating calla lilies in a deep purple theme for the late fall wedding. These arrangements are made of artificial callas and filler flowers that were ‘upcycled’ from another event.
Hydrangeas, sedum and Russian sage combine for an easy and natural bouquet. The vase is a chalk painted glass jar accented with a multi-strand ribbon.
Arrangements made with flowers purchased at the local farmers’ markets are colorful and inexpensive. I buy bouquets and take them apart to rearrange. Sometimes I ask for a handful of one kind of flowers like the Bells of Ireland shown here paired with Queen Anne’s lace from the ‘field.’ A few dollars worth of flowers can go along way.
Dish gardens containing succulents are easy to care for . . . dogs add personality . . . no fairy gardens here!