Sunday, November 30, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Orange Wedding
I had my Orange and Yellow wedding today, except it was more
Orange and Garnet Red/Burgundy-ish.
It was a bit of stressful weekend, considering I was in the Hospital Wednesday and Thursday. I just knew one way that Friday would be a serious flower day. :)
Here is a sneak peek at my Lovely Bride!
She's so beautiful!
Orange and Garnet Red/Burgundy-ish.
It was a bit of stressful weekend, considering I was in the Hospital Wednesday and Thursday. I just knew one way that Friday would be a serious flower day. :)
Here is a sneak peek at my Lovely Bride!
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Plenty O'Thanks
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So what do you think of my un-Thanksgiving Cornucopia (sp?)
I really wasn't trying to do fall so I thought I would add some Pink rununculas, Passion Flower, Privet Berries, Eucalyptus, Lavender,Kale, Thyme, and Geranium.
I kind of like it and think it could work as a centerpiece for an event or maybe even a wedding.
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But look!
I wasn't the only one, hehe.
jenny said she couldn't help but Goth it out a bit by spray painting hers purple and adding lace.
I think it's cute. :)
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Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!!!!
I really wasn't trying to do fall so I thought I would add some Pink rununculas, Passion Flower, Privet Berries, Eucalyptus, Lavender,Kale, Thyme, and Geranium.
I kind of like it and think it could work as a centerpiece for an event or maybe even a wedding.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieDGdU_3lJFvcmUOdmwRp9stv77gWaazkO-WrZiV_MuWj5nQsDfVJ0TldS5pYYdpXOquUvIqkTERGkk6NrF0_jy_vQ7wvV3sLOqzQwL45vWEykcd1l-dMfkYGPWoKafp6clZABuQwTtvtJ/s280/Organic+Centerpiece+Kuga+Designs.jpg)
But look!
I wasn't the only one, hehe.
jenny said she couldn't help but Goth it out a bit by spray painting hers purple and adding lace.
I think it's cute. :)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDAcfZCPsEZzbTqhoKyUNlYatCGC1BGlZn71Uwh0SgEcxgdXIxZmyYI4llU3Z_jvLD9fZPorSK8v-KKfstB9GKhEsU6mjV-R4NmiEN6zqC0lVFQn-16AjdFgCok1-40gLGndxRkItY1nFY/s280/Purple+Horn+of+Plenty+Kuga+Designs.jpg)
Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!!!!
Monday, November 24, 2008
Pretty in Purple
I can be in love with a picture can't I??
Thanks goodness for LotusHaus and her wonderful blog.......run, don't walk over to her site if you haven't gone yet! I hate to piggy back her post, but I am in love with purple right now!!! :P
Thanks goodness for LotusHaus and her wonderful blog.......run, don't walk over to her site if you haven't gone yet! I hate to piggy back her post, but I am in love with purple right now!!! :P
Center Piece Ideas for a Wedding or Event
I have got to catch up on my pictures....it's been a long semester and I am SO ready for the Holidays!!!!
Oh yeah. Back to the pictures. :)
So here are some surprisingly easy centerpeice ideas to try out. We learned different mechanics in class and really forget the flowers used.
{Can't knock free flowers that we use in school. It's practice and in real life I can substitute with whatever flowers my little heart can afford. I mean, desires.}
Oh yeah. Back to the pictures. :)
So here are some surprisingly easy centerpeice ideas to try out. We learned different mechanics in class and really forget the flowers used.
{Can't knock free flowers that we use in school. It's practice and in real life I can substitute with whatever flowers my little heart can afford. I mean, desires.}
These vases only have one entire hydrangea stem thats broken apart, a couple horsetail and 5 carnations and like 7 statice sprigs?!?!?! Holy crap if you had vases this would would cost you like $6!
P.S. the stuff holding the hydrangea florets are cellophane........Donovan is a genius.
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It's just a styrofoam box that's ribbon wrapped and then the flowers are pushed into water picks which are secured in to the foam. Easy Peasy!
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
Mass Assembly Centerpeice
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I received an email from someone asking for a little help on her centerpiece. I thought it would be easier to explain my suggestions on my blog because it's easier to post than to send a million pictures, and also maybe someone else can benefit from this breakdown.
I had this idea for a centerpeice and I didn't really have a bride who was open to it because the brides I have been working with already had set ideas on what they wanted to do in terms of centerpieces. I remember seeing the picture above on a blog that I read and I thought it looked fabulous and it was sort of what I had pictured in my head. I just envisioned a green, organic garden growing in the middle of a table. Kind of like this:
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So where the first picture is more of a beach themed wedding, I thought it was still the perfect picture to break down.
The good thing about these types of centerpeice is that you can make one mock up at home, take a picture, then hand it over to your set up person to make them assembly line style.
The basics are a candle dish of some sort to hold your centerpeice. I have seen cheap ones at dollar stores and nice ones at craft stores. But you can always just go with Ikea.
I got these from Ikea and they are priced between $4 -$10
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You can have one candle, like the one pictured above, I personally like the look of three tiered candles. These are from Ikea, but again, take advantage of the Holidays and also of Micheal's or Joanne's when they send out their monthly coupons.
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You can buy a Manzanita branch for like $12 and break it apart into smaller sections, One branch might be enough for about ten centerpieces.
Check out the NettleHollowBlog for great ideas and how to instructions!
If you did want to go with a beach themed you could buy a big bag of sand for like $5 for 50 lbs and it would be enough for all of your centerpieces. You can buy seashells at dollar stores as well and you could even incorporate them into your place card setting like one of my brides did.
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I would estimate this at about $14 to $18 per centerpeice if you needed say 40.
Not bad I would say. You could make it less if you shopped around the prices of the containers and used less flowers or you could bump it up a bit if you wanted to make it more elaborate.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Golf Themed Centerpiece
It just occurred to me that I never shared my Midterm Project with you?!?!?
The one I slaved over in between my Tango and YouTube wedding!
So here's the deal.
I have an events class that I am taking and we do all kinds of neat things like make floral trees from scratch and make centerpieces ideas with themes and hanging floral pieces....just all kinds of floral projects for events.
So our assignment was to create a themed birthday party for a famous celebrity.
It had to be obvious that the theme represented that celeb so I picked Tiger Woods and made a Golf theme centerpiece. It had to have fresh flowers in it and it had to be an all around arrangement that could be seen from all sides.
I wanted to make something interesting to look at so I stuck to clean crisp colors that represent Golf to me: white, green, and bright yellow.
See my sand trap? :)
I got carried away, hehe.
The one I slaved over in between my Tango and YouTube wedding!
So here's the deal.
I have an events class that I am taking and we do all kinds of neat things like make floral trees from scratch and make centerpieces ideas with themes and hanging floral pieces....just all kinds of floral projects for events.
So our assignment was to create a themed birthday party for a famous celebrity.
It had to be obvious that the theme represented that celeb so I picked Tiger Woods and made a Golf theme centerpiece. It had to have fresh flowers in it and it had to be an all around arrangement that could be seen from all sides.
I wanted to make something interesting to look at so I stuck to clean crisp colors that represent Golf to me: white, green, and bright yellow.
See my sand trap? :)
I got carried away, hehe.
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I used yellow buttons poms, succulents, moss, scabiosa pods, Galax leaves-
I made a Galax rosette you can't see :(
white mums, green hydrangea, and billy buttons.
Green Wedding
Green wedding anyone?
I made these in class and they are meant to be either clustered together or separated and spread along a long table.
I made these in class and they are meant to be either clustered together or separated and spread along a long table.
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There are four clusters per tray, maybe at the end of the night you can send them home as favors with your guests. There are enough for 4-5 couples to take one home from each table. :)
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Stargazer Wedding {Part three}
I can't believe I forgot about the rest of my pictures from the Stargazer Wedding at St. Ignatius!
That room was packed by the time I got there. I couldn't even fit in the room but I had to get a few shots where I could! Building a portfolio is no easy task :)
I made her a last minute Orchid Hair piece but I couldn't get past the stylist and florist and parents and 5 bridesmaids to take a picture :(
So I jumped on this bouquet/shoe shot.
Then luckily I was able to get one of her facing forward with her bouquet
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I had to take a picture of the boutonnières in the hallway, too.
I feel really bad because she ordered 14 boutonnières and I thought she just had a big party plus ushers. She was a pretty laid back bride so I didn't question it. But when I got to the church all the men AND women were wearing them! I was horrified that instead of wearing corsages, the mothers and sponsors were wearing boutonnières! WAH! I will never take for granted that a bride and groom may not know the difference again.
The center Orchid bout was for the groom to match her bouquet and her hair piece.
She was so cute and nervous, I could hear saying to the coordinator
"OMG, I'm getting married, OMG,OMG,OMG!"
Then we were off to the Hyatt in Union Square.
Again in traffic because not only was it the sweetest day{according to the calendar}
But it was also the famous Nike Women's Marathon in SF.
My lovely friends came to help out, one because she wanted to help me out, the other because she's considering going into the event business and was curious to see how much work is really done on the day of. I hope I didn't scare her because as usual the day was hectic
BUT!
We made it everywhere we had to be and everything looked good :)
The funny thing is they have the same name so every time I called one they would both answer and or come over to me, hehe.
Simple Ikebana inspired glass cubes filled with three stargazer flowers, buds, and curly willow.
Decorating the cake was left to me.
I was especially nervous because you can't mess up buttercream.
That's why usually the cake person insists on adding flowers and I always leave the flowers for them.
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I Dropped off the florals at her Hotel room and was greeted by her beautiful Bridesmaids.
Had to take the bathroom bouquet shot!
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I made her a last minute Orchid Hair piece but I couldn't get past the stylist and florist and parents and 5 bridesmaids to take a picture :(
So I jumped on this bouquet/shoe shot.
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I had to take a picture of the boutonnières in the hallway, too.
I feel really bad because she ordered 14 boutonnières and I thought she just had a big party plus ushers. She was a pretty laid back bride so I didn't question it. But when I got to the church all the men AND women were wearing them! I was horrified that instead of wearing corsages, the mothers and sponsors were wearing boutonnières! WAH! I will never take for granted that a bride and groom may not know the difference again.
The center Orchid bout was for the groom to match her bouquet and her hair piece.
Her lovely ladies waiting to be cued down the aisle with the bride looking on.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp1lGUbkhP886sFNpTGRXhxNt5JK1Qyh00Cn98MOEhcRmOPqbjSEUauMWEEXu7uW_AW-__zTAFvwOdymVlgfJdyPHP9g23Hqizk9e7T8C4ryjSNeNSa44ib3HPu3b3YD_Zy-aesUyl9lCh/s280/kuga+designs+2.jpg)
"OMG, I'm getting married, OMG,OMG,OMG!"
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Again in traffic because not only was it the sweetest day{according to the calendar}
But it was also the famous Nike Women's Marathon in SF.
My lovely friends came to help out, one because she wanted to help me out, the other because she's considering going into the event business and was curious to see how much work is really done on the day of. I hope I didn't scare her because as usual the day was hectic
BUT!
We made it everywhere we had to be and everything looked good :)
The funny thing is they have the same name so every time I called one they would both answer and or come over to me, hehe.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-lswZ2mNeVeOpltBjmUZbuomFY8f0lgi8qP2Z6TBod7R4zBzSSlDGUnFoK8uXYVqYJvqrnuTdPhsbqysk27xs__df5SClKqROt_FKlOU1pEwCPqazDUSxW5cVrr5SQxR4C1Zq6wtncbVt/s280/stargazer+centerpiece+kuga+designs.jpg)
Decorating the cake was left to me.
I was especially nervous because you can't mess up buttercream.
That's why usually the cake person insists on adding flowers and I always leave the flowers for them.
Yep. That's her day job. A cake decorator.
You can imagine the pressure I'm feeling right???
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I'm still trying to catch up with my posts.
I have so many pictures to share from school, events, and mock ups....I am falling behind :(
So here we go with some pictures :)
Happy Halloween!
What? It was two weeks ago? ok. then:
Happy Thanksgiving!
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These are super easy to make. Ready?
Go out and buy a basic holiday floral bouquet from a flower shop or Trader Joe's or a Costco, break it apart and cut the flowers and greens down to about 3 inches of stem. Soak some floral foam, place it on a round dish that will hold the floral foam(being careful to use a container that has sides so that the water from the soaked foam does not spill over like, say, in a flat dish). Place your gourd in the middle of the foam and then start evenly spreading out your flowers all the way around. You will be surprised, it doesn't take that many flowers and leaves.
Make one for Thanksgiving dinner!
Monday, November 10, 2008
Pink Trees
My daughter plays AAU Basketball and we went to Aneheim for a tournament over the Halloween weekend.
It was huge! I have never seen so many games going on at once. It was the largest 2 day girls basketball tournament in the nation.
What am I greeted with when we go the parking lot of the Aneheim Sports Center???
This pink haven.
How funny that it was a girls tournament :)
It was huge! I have never seen so many games going on at once. It was the largest 2 day girls basketball tournament in the nation.
What am I greeted with when we go the parking lot of the Aneheim Sports Center???
This pink haven.
How funny that it was a girls tournament :)
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I'm a huge fan of the cherry blossoms, I just ADORE San Francisco when its time for the Cherry blossoms to well, blossom. So as you can imagine, I was like a kid in a candy store.
My daughter started gently pulling me away claiming she wanted to go warm up or something....
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