I went to Crate and Barrel in Lincoln Park the other day. I always love their flower section but never had the gut to buy anything from there because their flowers are REALLY expensive. But that day, I was there holding my son, and an elder gentleman walked up to me and commented that my son is very cute. We chatted a bit, then he started to pick up some flowers from the buckets. So I guess in a way, he encouraged me to pick up something for myself as well. However, I didn't want to spend $50 for a bouquet of flowers, which happens all the time if you want really nice ones. Instead, I just started picking one stem of whatever I liked and kind of made an instant arrangement there in the store. I started with a tall element, which was a plum branch. I then added some greens like Hypericum buds. Then I figured that it definitely needed more blossoms and I found these super chic dark purple Spray Mums. And that was just under $10 before tax (that means it went over $10 after crazy Chicago sales tax but since this is my first time, I think this still fits my concept...). While I was picking those flowers, I already had an idea which "vase" I should use. It is a small piece of Japanese pottery that my mother gave me, whose outside surface is deep red and inside surface has an abstract pattern in very soft pastel colors. I also remembered I had a pin frog that I bought from Japan and barely used it, so I was pretty psyched about using it. And voila. The idea was to create an illusion of "bonsai" with cut plants, and I think it worked pretty well for my first attempt.
I hope you enjoyed the first installment of my weekly flower therapy and I hope to hear from you!
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