Wedding Flowers and Knitting For Christmas

First of all, I want to say that our pomegranate season is finished.  We sold our last 4 cases yesterday.  A few days previously, a lovely young girl contacted me to purchase as many cases as I had of the splits.  She purchased poms from me last year also because she makes the juice, freezes it and later makes pomegranate soaps.  She took home 6 cases of splits and non-splits.

This last week has been busy getting ready for one flower event on Friday; and the flowers for one wedding on Sunday.  The plant for this year that just about EVERYONE wants is EUCALYPTUS.  Seems people have fallen in love with how it moves in arrangements; how the silver tones blend in so well with so many flower colors.  These two customers were no exception, they both wanted silver eucalyptus in the bride bouquets, in the table arrangements. 

Both the seeded Eucalyptus and silver dollar Eucalyptus are the most popular.  And the prior event customer wanted it in every table setting along with the silver leaves of the olive tree.  Those arrangements turned out wonderful because the pallet was white, a blush rose; green hydrangeas; white dahlias and silver with just a pop of dark blue from the Sea Holly Blue Thistle flower. 

It has the silver petals around a dark blue center. She also wanted a flower cuff which I LOVE to make instead of the traditional corsage.

 

I had the wonderful help from my friend Sarah on Saturday and together we put a lot of flowers together to make a beautiful finished group of bouquets, boutonnieres, flower cuffs and table arrangements.  I will show you those flowers next time because I don't like to show the flowers until the bride or family posts the wedding photos themselves.

Frank has been painting the walls of his remodeled shop which is bringing this project closer to being finished.  It all needs to be done so we can transform it to hold all my December 5th, 6th, and 7th fresh greens wreath and garland classes inside his shop.  We decorate it all for the holidays, lights everyplace, great food, music and loads and loads of different types of locally foraged Holiday greens for people to make and decorate their own Christmas wreaths.

Before those classes, I have one class scheduled in November, the 18th.  That class will be learning to use the Indigo Dyeing process called Shibori.  Indigo is a natural plant dye and we will be using 100% cotton kitchen towels to create all types of designs using rubber bands, folding and string.  Loads of fun if interested, sign up now.  Cost is $30 and we supply everything. 10-Noon.

On a couple of raining days, I have been working on my Christmas knitting projects, a Shrug for my grand daughter, hat for my grand son;

crocheted fall leaves for a swag on the mantal; and a shawl for myself!!!  

Believe it or not, I still have beautiful flowers growing in my gardens but colder and more rain is in the forecast so I am sure, the 2017 flowers will be finished soon.  That doesn't mean my Windmill Farm Flower business is done!!! 

We use fresh greens, pine cones, red berries and special farmed flowers from my fellow flower farmers who use greenhouses or tunnels to grow flowers. 

We trade or purchase from each other so that we keep the small flower farming business alive!!!  So for the holidays remember us if you have any flower needs.  Our arrangements are always creative and special, nothing ordinary comes from our farm!!!

Talk to you before Thanksgiving and thank you for continuing to come back to read our blog.