Emily and Manus got married last night. The wedding was held at the Tabard Inn at Dupont Circle in Washington, DC. The Tabard is a wonderf...

I love decorating mantles for the holidays. This year I used branches, velvet acorns, copper xmas balls, feathers and a rhinestone brooch a...

This week at ikebana class we worked on some holiday pieces. I love this wooden container and thought it would be appropriate. We all use...

Sodexo, a catering company, had a client dinner tonight. They rented wonderful citon colored gauzy tablecloths with sparkle and wanted a ni...

This is a not great photo of a little piece I made yesterday. I bought these wonderful white vases at IKEA - the are round with a nickel si...

Photos of this year's Christmas installation at Nora's along with some additional pieces we made this year. Again we used her red a...

Last week's arrangements for a Landon pre-Thanksgiving party. I used Lenonides roses, orange pin cushions, magnolia leaves, large green...

A photo of the back of the Subaru filled with flowers for a Landon reunion dinner. We love this car - it can practically hold an entire we...

I have missed many of the ikebana classes this fall but wanted to post the picture of the piece I made around Halloween. We stacked gourds ...

This morning I made a large arrangement for a showing for event planners at the historic Whittemore Mansion, the home of the Women's Dem...

Stephanie and Ken got married yesterday at Woodend, the Audubon Society mansion in Maryland. They had an absolutely beautiful day. The cer...

We had a very busy week last week, lots of events, deliveries and a wedding on Sunday. These two photos are of the pieces we delivered. We...

These are photos from tonight's parties at Holton. Red apache rose nosegays surrounded by curled burgandy leaves - 3 nosegays in each a...

Lots of work today - Landon reunion and 2 parties at Holton . For Landon we made really fun arrangements - my favorite type - a nice combin...

Same tablecloth as a few weeks ago, different arrangements. Fiesta and Okey Dokey roses, pink tinged yellow dahlias, bronze football mums, ...

Last week I went to the open house of my friend Rosie who grows beautiful topiaries of all types including standards of cotoneaster which we...

I have restarted my ikebana studies with Kyoko Petersen in Vienna, VA. Kyoko is a talented ikebana artist and I have a lot to learn from he...

Every week I make an arrangement or bring a plant in for the front desk at Holton. It is a great exercise for me to try some new fun things...

Photos from last weekends 2 weddings - one at the Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo in MD and the other at the historic synagogue at 6th and I N...

A few photos from another event this past week. Beautiful fall colored arrangements made with orange Amazon roses, burgandy spray roses, gr...

Busy this week, large events at both schools with some smaller events in between. White and brown were the theme of last night's party ...

Three early fall arrangements for a client. I am not quite ready for full on dark fall colors and like the play of yellows and rusts and th...

These are some little arrangements I made last night for the New Parent dinner at Holton. I used beautiful Camel, Geraldine and Sahara rose...

Today was a busy day. I potted up a number of bird's nest ferns and added dried scabiosa pods and pitcher plants for small table arrang...