Cinco De Mayo Get Together Inspiration

I admit it.  I am fibbing a little bit on this one today.  It is the end of April in Massachusetts.  There is no way we have this much color outdoors or on our decks and patios but, Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner and this deck setting is so colorful and Cinco de Mayo-like that I just decided to go with it!

A Mixture of Rustic and Elegant: Wedding Boutonnieres and Corsages

I know everyone is getting sick of the complaining but the weather really has stunk here in the Northeast this spring...if you want to call it that!  To get my mind off of the weather and to have some fun, I decided to practice my craft and create a few photo ops at the same time :).

Most often when I am doing the flowers for my weddings everything is so rush-rush that I do not have time to stage nice photos of the flowers when they are completed.  Much care is needed to keep the flowers fresh and beautiful.  It is such a disappointment after all the work that goes into the whole process not to get lovely photos after all.  So, while the weather was simply awful, I decided to make lemonade out of lemons and played around with flowers one day and photographed them the next.  Pure bliss for a floral designer!

Out of these five floral elements (tea rose, lisianthus, rosemary, eucalyptus and waxflower) I created some boutonnieres and a couple of corsages.

Glimpses of My Trip to Sea Island, Georgia

Welcome, all.  It started last April when my son and his family returned from their first trip to Sea Island, Georgia.  The trip was a business trip but our son brought his family along because he had heard that the resort was quite something and he wanted to share it with them.  It turned out to be more than quite something and when the same conference decided to meet again this April at Sea Island the whole family was determined to return.  This time, however, they invited my husband and me to join them!  So, we made our plane reservations and started to look forward to the trip.  Unfortunately for us, the weather turned out to be not as wonderful as the resort but, we made it work anyway.

Upon arriving at The Cloister at Sea Island you immediately step into the three story, Spanish villa inspired, massive lobby.  With the weather often in the 55 to 60 degree area with showers or full out rain, this room became a favorite of ours and many of the other guests.  There were actually many, many common and lovely areas around the hotel in which to curl up with a good book, which was really nice.

Looking Forward to Warmer Weather and Looking Back at a Special Garden Party

Hi there!  I hope all of you had a wonderful Easter like I did.  Thankfully, the weather cooperated long enough to have an Easter egg hunt outside.  However, the weather since then has not been spring-like, at all!  It's been cold, rainy and cloudy.  Not nice.  To life my spirits, I have decided to reminisce about warmer days and to share one of the special events I had the pleasure of being a part of during sunnier times.