In bloom

I had a very lovely Valentine's day.
I spent the day at my mother in law's flower shop where I used to work before my current job in banking. I had a very nice time arranging flowers, chatting with Sandie and making friends with one of the customers. Because I don't work there anymore, I actually enjoyed seeing all the flowers and wasn't sick of them by the time I went home. Sandie graciously gave me a package of roses to do with what I wanted. I went to Trader Joe's to go through the sad remains of left over flowers from the Valentine's Day rush.


I made two arrangements from the flowers I picked up from Trader Joe's, but with no filler I decided to do something different with all my red roses, and I made a kick-ass bridal bouquet.  I wrapped it with this really pretty cherry blossom printed ribbon I had lying around from the last time I made a diaper cake.

It was sweet.

Unfortunately this style of floral arrangement is meant to be carried, not precariously balanced in a vase. It is very top heavy, which my poor husband found out when he brushed by it and it toppled to it's doom.
Fortunately not too much harm was done, and my bouquet has been transformed into a pave style arrangement which now sits on my coffee table where I am sure it will be admired by my husband and his friends tomorrow as they clear it off to make room for their Magic cards...