What Can't You Design

I have tried to do the bud vase flowers in my hand but than I add too many flowers and I'm screwed again. It's a mental thing seeing that bud vase sitting in front of me. Enfact I only have about 3 bud vases in the whole store.

I also struggle with the darn shaped set pieces. I have trouble with the cutting out the shapes. Once I get that it's a breeze. But give me big old casket sprays any old day!!

Great to see everyone has a weekness makes me feel "normal". Thanks everyone
 
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For Me, It's a Casket spray for a Newborn or an infant. It's not the diminutive size......it's just the fact that it is for a wee one......and I think about the life that little one could have had.....and I get emotional.

Now, for that designer who has trouble doing tropicals in a vase........give you a tip. Use a technique called HANA-KUBARI. It is basically using long flexible twigs and branches in the vase.....like curly cwillow twisted in a vase...COMBINED with a tight tape grid. IT WORKS !
 
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I have trouble doing a bold masculine design. Everything I make tends to get fussy and girly, feminine kooking. I cannot resist using a soft foliage or something to finish a design. I could make a king protea girly.
 
i love tropical, highstyle and funky! i never like my dozen carns in a vase (but nobody complains about them), i guess because it is too traditional, i also prefer to push off traditional funeral arg on another designer when possible and they push all the creative or modern stuff on me. although i can do a cascade wedding bouquet in my sleep, go figure.:)
 
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Snapdragon Studio said:
All-gerbera anything.... bride's bouquets or arrangements. They just never seem to look right!
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Uh huh, that is me too. I think I am just too anal and want every flower to fall within the shape and plane that looks right to me. The funny part of it is, I just went through a record number of gerbs in the last week ~ just shy of 700. I had three different events, all with ONLY gerbs. Argh!! I charged for it though. ;)
 
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Uh huh, that is me too. I think I am just too anal and want every flower to fall within the shape and plane that looks right to me. The funny part of it is, I just went through a record number of gerbs in the last week ~ just shy of 700. I had three different events, all with ONLY gerbs. Argh!! I charged for it though. ;)
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that's a lot of gerbs!!..we have a standing order for 200/week, and we've had to double this last couple of weeks, but, not 700!!..wow
 
I'm with Boss,

have more issues with dz carns vased than anything.. I can do dz roses vased in my sleep, but those darn carns.. It's like herding CATS!!!!
 
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anytimeflowers said:
Uh huh, that is me too. I think I am just too anal and want every flower to fall within the shape and plane that looks right to me. The funny part of it is, I just went through a record number of gerbs in the last week ~ just shy of 700. I had three different events, all with ONLY gerbs. Argh!! I charged for it though. ;)
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We go through about 200 gerberas a week. But we have a special dutch machine that we call a "plasticizer"

Special thin plastic tubing comes in 1000 meter rolls and we cut pieces to the desired length. Then slide them onto the stem and there's a heated element that blows hot air that shrinks the plastic sleeves. Its awesome. I love it. We ALWAYS have straight gerbs.

And it's great for wedding work because you can manipulate the stem any way you want.
 
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bubble bowls or anything with a big mouth, we seem to use clear tape and use crisscross method and it seem to work. may collapse later, but works when we make them.
 
kt4ye said:
bubble bowls or anything with a big mouth, we seem to use clear tape and use crisscross method and it seem to work. may collapse later, but works when we make them.
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ME too. anyone have any hints on how to keep a bubble bowl arr from collapsing?

then last wedding we used 10" bubble bowls we hand tied the bouquets and dropped them in.
 
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