Options for the non traditional Holiday decor

   There are color trends that you could choose for your holiday decor but keep in mind these are colors you need to love and if you are investing in a lot of decor you need to love them enough to use them year after year. You can start with a few items and add on or just go all out.

  The colors for this home were inspired by the wall art and other pieces that were displaced. We wanted to create a dramatic piece for the fireplace and after searching high and low one of our Designers decided to create a Seahorse out of Poly Clay and we collected lights that look like strings of pearls, Large abalone shells, and lots of Sea shades of glass ornaments. It is a fantastic and dramatic sea scape and has to be one of our favorites.

Fun and interesting Items for the Holiday Decorator

Ilex, from the Holly family has small berries usually red but can be shades of red. The fruits are variously colored berries, which ripen in winter, and offer a pleasant color contrast with the color of winter greens. The berries, look really amazing against Princess Pine or Cedar and because you can get them in several lengths you have the option of using them as an accent for long centerpieces or to create height and drama along with those wonderful Amaryllis bulbs that are finally blooming. We used a artisan glass vase in vibrant red to showcase these amazing berries, the sphere shaped designs are covered in a green Dianthus (from the carnation family) can you believe that. It’s just one of our designer’s favorite. We inserted forelle pears which are the perfect size into the sphere for texture and accented with Cymbidium Orchids, another favorite.

Its time to decorate for Christmas 2011

    Although Reds and golds are still a favorite in holiday decor we have been creating some really wonderful color combinations for clients over the Season. 
    Here is a great chocolate and lime green accented fireplace piece and a really vibrant orange and cinnamon color scheme for the mantel. Leaves made of crushed velvet and gems that sparkle in burnt orange catches the eye and will look fantastic by candlelight.  
   The orange hydro gel beads, Equadorian roses and hypericum berries worked really well for a fall table scape and it is very easy to add candles and switch out the gourds and pumpkins with glass ornaments or gold berries. Arrangements of cedar and princess pine with magnolia leaves would create a wonderful winter accent.

Fun and fantastic summer wedding colors

Bright and effusive colors were the pick for our summer weddings in 2011.

   We used Lemons and deep golden yellows, Apple and lime greens and some fantastic shades of fuchsia, vilolets and hot pinks. Here  are a few of our fun pics for the summer.  It is great if you can use fresh fruit with your designs. Apples and lemons look really yummy in Green dianthus designs. Succulents create texture and visual drama. We didn't have much room on the buffet table so why not go up. We created a metal tubed weaving canopy that had draping Phalenopsis and Mokara orchids. The apples filled up the metal containers and again created a colorful accent to the stainless and silver metal work.

I've been expanding my horizons....

      So, as we all know when you have been doing anything for a while you

can become stagnant and things don't excite you as much as they used to. 

Its a tough thing to work through. As much as I love my work I needed something to get those creative juices moving.My boyfriend mentioned going on a trip to the Socorro Island which included.sailing on the Nautilus Explorer out to dive and interact with the friendliest giant mantas in the world.  Believe me I so wanted to go but that meant I would have to learn to scuba dive and get my open water certification. 

      Let me tell you no easy feet. I mean get me ten feet under and

my rational brain says. "What the hell are you doing down here. you breath air..." I stuck it out...and last weekend in Catalina I got to realize just what I was working for....I now am Certified. I get to see those giant Pacific mantas at Socorro Just as wonderful are local population of bottle nose dolphins

Shark sightings are very possible with sightings of silky, Galapagos, hammerhead,white tip and silver tip sharks. Whale sharks can also be seen.

I worked hard and am so looking forward to this.

     I know that my passion for my work will so benefit from this experience. I wonder how many ideas I will get for new designs, submerged flowers, the possibilities are so exciting. I will keep you posted....

Valentines, to send those Long Stem Roses or what are the options...

   Roses in red have long been the choice of our lovely men to tell us they love us on valentines day. Is that the only option, we pay dearly for these precious blooms. Limited supplies and high demand make prices pretty high and can be a tough choice. 

  That said, we love flowers a more compact design with other seasonal flowers can make us just as happy, It lasts as well.Tulips in a glass bowl look fantastic or a European paved design in wonderful rich jewel or sherbert like colors of roses, orchids, hydrangea and other seasonal flowers. Really in most cases large or small, the effort goes a long way in saying that you care.

My Favorite Things of 2010

I was asked the other day what was my favorite and most memorable event of 2010. First,  I  have to say that every event we did were really special...But there is a couple that really stand out in my mind. My Girlfriend and I attended a charity event of which Chris Lindsay Designs did the floral for and we won a contest of which all my friends and family voted for us to win ( do you think they swayed the vote). The event benefited Children with Diabetes a truly noble cause.  The event was perfect, and every thing from flowers to the home...were just fantastic. Here we are, I love this picture. We are having as much fun as this suggests.

We did a very special wedding for Cyndi from Plums Cafe.  She was the perfect bride and pretty much let us have a free hand to create two different vibes for the reception, really giving us the freedom to do whatever we wanted to fit the theme of her wedding.  As it turned out it was a amazing.  Char created a beautiful atmosphere and Cyndi was the most enchanting bride.  I will never forget the look on her face when she saw us for the first time. She just cried ( there we are telling her to knock it off her eyes will get all puffy) .  She could not believe what we created for her most perfect wedding day.  She makes me believe that second chances are just around the corner, and just how lucky we are just to be able to love.Christine Bentley photographed the entire wedding and myself and Char just loved working with her too. What a fun day had by all.