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| March 8, 2003 : I made these for a workshop. I really enjoyed starting my day with quietly creating these. I'm not sure how well they adhere to true ikebana rules as I've only had the one class and what I learned is fading fast. Still, I like them no matter what. |
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| This is three irises. It is hard to go wrong with irises. The left one may be a too tall. I think it and the right one need to be slightly shorter.. After I snapped this, I put some iris leaves in the back center to fill in. I have no idea what the wispy yellow stuff is. I bought it for the texture then realised it has a light, sweet, vanilla fragrance, as wispy as the flowers themselves. It reminded me of the fragrance I kept smelling on the Tarawera Falls Outlet walk in New Zealand, on the top of the hill above the falls. |
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| This is my Easter Bunny ikebana: two ears and a puffy tail! Two stalks of snapdragons, a single iris, a big mum, and some yellow daisies. This one I think may really blow ikebana conformity to the winds but still I like it. Obviously I was on a yellow-purple kick. I'm longing for spring, I think! It can be hard to arrange in a dark green bowl because foliage doesn't stand out, but I had enough yellow to counterbalance. I would have liked some softer greens to fill in around the mum but I didn't have any. |
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| And here is what may be my favourite although I keep changing my mind. An iris, two red caranations, yellow daisies and iris leaves. I really like the contrast in textures of the flowers from the sleek iris and its leaves, to the frill of the carnations to the soft, casual daisies. I really like the splash of red. |