I made these pieces for a small dinner party.  Blush and cream with maroon nine bark foliage, wax flower and mauve queen anne's lace.  ...

Frances and her husband Tony renewed their vows with a lovely dinner party at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel a few weeks ago.  Peach is her fav...

Beautiful birthday flowers in a wonderful color palette with homegrown peonies - such a thrill to use flowers from my garden.

Arrangements for a dinner party last night - yellow on yellow, with a touch of grey.

May sneaks up on me every year - I cruise through the early spring with a nice consistent amount of work, I can handle everything and still ...

I made these little arrangements for a party on Capitol Hill this week.  It is fun to see the work on the Capitol dome progressing as I...

I made this arrangement for a friend for Mother's Day....Lavender spray roses, Quicksand roses and cream and lavender dahlias, jack vibu...

Last week we made arrangements for the UMD graduation at the Shady Grove campus. Combo roses, white hydrangea, coral sprays, pierus from my ...

We did the flowers for a lovely dinner party last night in the Refectory at St. Albans.  We worked with a long massive 50 foot table and mad...

I made this little bouquet for John Hosek's presentation at the Potomac Floral Show in March.  He designed this wonderfully delicate pie...

So happy to report that spring has finally come to DC.  What a relief.  Things are blooming, there are beautiful tulips at the markets and I...

I have a great collection of brown and white transferware (as mentioned on the Tone on Tone blog last fall) but I don't use it much.  Bu...

This weekend, Potomac Floral Wholesale put on their annual open house.  John Hosek was the guest designer and I was lucky enough to work wit...

I was very lucky last week to be part of the Schaffer Design team creating a large installation at the Philadelphia Flower Show.  The overal...

I have a bunch of work going out the door today - luckily we didn't get much of the freezing rain forecast.  I really feel for florist i...

A second version of yesterday's sample, this one has dark callas added and it a bit larger..

I made this sample the other day - love the marsala (color of the year), champagne and beige color story.  I used the new Quicksand Bel rose...

A piece for an anniversary gift today - the order was for all tropicals so I used lots of fun stuff -  orange shampoo ginger, pink ginger, h...

I made these pieces today for a makeup party for Landon moms.  They wanted a lavender and pink color palette and I was happy to work on some...

I love this little jeweled wrist corsage -and how it looks on my plaster hand!  I used single hyacinth blooms with white spray roses on a ba...

We always get busy after the holidays, but this year it seems that we are getting going a little earlier than usual.  Anyway, here are a few...

so now that Christmas is over and my brain is back in gear I can post some photos of some other things I did for the holidays.  This is an o...

For the past 4 years we have participated at various levels for a large Christmas party.  Thi...

Just a simple install at a lovely townhouse on Capitol Hill.  I love the look of roping and traditional red bows.  This year I added a fun g...

I have a wedding coming up and the bride and groom are bookworms (my favorite type of people). They want a tablescape of books and this is ...