A Florist Called Serendipity

I really don't have a Florist. Well, not yet anyways. Just Kidding! But it is fun to pretend. My imagination does tend to run away with me.

These floral arrangements show how serendipity works for me. They are made with things from my yard that I ran around and gathered in about half an hour because it was 18 degrees Fahrenheit and snow flurrying. YIKES! But I forgot the pine cones. How could I forget the pine cones?

The next Serendipitous Factor was discovering the can of gold spray paint on the shelf of my Art Studio (well, really it was on my basement shelf). I start spraying things gold that I would never heretofore have ever considered using in a Christmas Floral Arrangement. The seed pods from the Nicotina Plant look very cool spray painted gold and I think that they resemble jingle bells (well perhaps they do only in my mind). BTW, I stumbled on this piece of trivia: Nicotina Plants also are grown in the Gardens at Giverny.

I wanted to finally use up some of those "odds and ends" from holidays past so this limited selection also controlled my designs. The evergreens are live, so therefore these arrangements will only be used outdoors. I don't know how the real florists find those evergreens that don't drop their needles. They fall off like a domino effect for me if I leave them inside my very dry house. As it is, I will be picking up pine needles until June 2010.

I am done now for another year. My hands feel like sandpaper and my arms look like pin cushions. A very attractive and original fashion. LOL. Goes with the paint splattered pants. What fun! And definitely quirky.

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Plato