Flowers as Art

 Art comes in many different mediums. Our medium is flowers, and sometimes it's amazing what a little creativity can produce.

 Flowers are by themselves so beautiful, and due to the vast variety of different blooms the possibilities are endless. Keeping in mind the basic principles for design (color, balance, line, focal areas, etc) we combined firey colors and moving lines to draw the eyes in and upwards.

As you get closer you begin to appreciate the detail of the combinations and smaller focal areas. The textures play off each other brilliantly and this was one of those pieces you truly could stare at for hours.

Carlton Woods Member Guest Event

 In the fall of each year The Club at Carlton Woods holds its annual Member Guest event. This year it couldn't have been on a more beautiful day. The skies were blue, there was a light breeze and the temperature was near perfect. So what could have made the day more fabulous? Well our stunning flowers of course!

 With a mix of low, medium and high standing arrangements we created lots of focal points in an open air space, which in turn helps create a more intimate setting. The arrangements were filled with orange lilies, coffee bean (brown hypericum berries), butterscotch cymbidium orchid blooms, mango and flame miniature calla lilies, two tone orange and yellow roses and purple bombay dendrobium orchids.

 The buffet arrangement was done in a contemporary style with twisting movement and clusters of flowers, creating high impact and vivid color.

 With arching curly willow, grapevine and bittersweet, the lilies, calla lilies, roses, hypericum berries and cymbidium orchids were a beautiful sight to behold.

 Underneath the tent we had alternating high and low arrangements in the same style and with the same fabulous color scheme.

 The tent was draped in champagne and chocolate satin fabric and created a luxurious feel throughout the room.

 The Champions table had an inspiring arrangement with glowing led birch branches, masses of lilies and flowers, orchid blooms on each napkin, cymbidiums suspended in the vase and rose petals on the table.

 The awards table also had a few floral clusters to add color and texture and help tie everything together.

 It was a truly stunning event. We can't wait for next year!

Carlton Woods Holiday Party

Happy New Year!

 There's nothing like a good party at The Club at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands Texas! It is true what they say, in Texas everything is bigger, and I might add better! Every year The Club at Carlton Woods throws a fabulous holiday party and we are always excited to bring out some fabulous showpieces. But it all starts with first impressions, and nothing says "Happy Holidays" more that a fabulous front door framed with beautiful poinsettia topiary trees.

 Each room in the club had different colors or a different theme, which makes for some very fun and fancy arrangements. This time of year we are usually covered from head to toe in glitter and preparing for this party was no exception. The front table in the foyer always has a stunning floral centerpiece; but for the parties we like to dress them up a bit. With copper and chocolate ornaments, a mass of red roses and a fresh flower wreath at the bottom this arrangement was definitely an eye catcher.

 As i mentioned earlier the colors are out of this world and underwater lights are always a fun addition when your using cool tones.

 In the dining room this massive white and copper arrangement was stunning. With oriental lilies, white hydrangea, lucious white roses, orchid blooms and soft evergreen boughs it lit up the room.

 In yet another dining room the colors were more reflective of a warm holiday. with orange roses, copper glittery branch accents, orange mocara orchids, copper wire swirls and evergreens. This combination created a more playful and warm ambiance in the room.

 We love fun textures and these arrangements were full of them. Pairing cabbage with miniature garden roses and safari sunset is a fun and very different way to accent a table. While hydrangea and cymbidium orchids is a little more popular the evergreens and glittery accents make it pop. And we love the classic contemporary floating green cymbidium in a low glass vase.

 This buffet arrangement showcased a light colored manzinita branch with suspended butterscotch orchids and fluffy white hydrangea pillowed bellow.

 WOW... are the first worlds that come to mind when trying to describe this amazing tree. What a fabulous show stopper! The green weeping willow created the perfect canopy for the vibrant arrangements below.

A mixture of green cymbidium orchids, lavender roses, vibrant blue delphinium, purple dendrobium orchids, thistle and fun glittery and wire accents these flowers stole the show of the whole night! It was amazing.

Thanksgiving 2012

 As we near the end of the year we want to do a re-cap of our fabulous 2012 holiday season. I'd like to start with Thanksgiving. This year at The Club at Carlton Woods we amazed the crowds with a full, lucious and absolutely divine giant cornucopia. This beautiful showpiece was overflowing with lilies, mums, antique green hydrangea, flat copper wire, roses, cabbage, lotus pods, bitter sweet and other fun textures. It was a sight to behold!

 The shell of the cornucopia was decorated with curly willow, lilies, lotus pods and copper accents. And the front, well, you couldn't miss it and had to take a long look inside to see all the wonderful goodies.

 Like any fabulous party you can't have just one centerpiece, especially in a venue as large and fabulous as The Club at Carlton Woods. This beautiful buffet arrangement in a sweeping cornucopia design was filled with roses, wheat, millet, hanging amaranthus, mums, and spiders all in rich autumn tones.

 

Here are a few of the lovely ladies who worked on this event! Like I've said before if you can dream it we can do it, and if you don't want to think about it then let our creative minds soar for you. These are the kinds of beauties we are inspired by.

 Another buffet table was decorated with this more traditional and full arrangement. With white manzinita branches intertwined with the arrangement it created fun lines and a great focal. The other flowers in this arrangement are mocara orchids, roses, spider mums, pom poms, solidago, hydragea and croton leaves accented by pumpkins.

And of course each table had their own miniature cornucopia filled with a variety of rich autumn colors, minature roses, mums, wheat and croton leaves.

Favorite Showpieces

 Sometimes it's fun to look back and pick out some of our favorite showpieces! This beautiful tree of flowers was stunning in person, there was nothing like it. With rich autumn colors and tropical greenery the line and balance of it all was amazing.

 This bright spring piece was on the entry table in one of our clients homes. It was given as a birthday present. We loved the peaches and pinks, the mix of textures and of course the stunning vase.

 This beautiful centerpiece for Mothers Day was a showstopper, with Calla lilies swirling on the outside of the ease and a giant arrangements of lilies, roses, hydrangea and cherry blossom branches, it was truly amazing.

 Going green is all the rage and this piece exemplified that theme. with fun tropical green anthirium, hanging amaranths, white oriental lilies, bells of Ireland and giant tropical leaves, this arrangement sparkled (literally with little led light strands woven trough the arrangement).

Another one of our favorites, I like to call it the canopy. It was amazing in person, as it stood on a 4 foot table with over 30 giant crystals hanging from the canopy of flowers and curly willow. Each crystal caught the sunlight and shined as the breeze moved through the patio.

It's fun to look back and see some of the fun pieces we've done over the years, and more importantly to let you see them too. For as we like to say, if you can dream it (or if you have an idea) we can make it.