How to Make your Out of Town Guests Feel At Home
on Oct 14, 2009 in Family Flower Arrangements House and Home Main Content Bathroom Towels Clutter Empty Hangers Favorite Foods Flower Delivery Food Allergies Food Items Fresh Flowers Friends And Family Hostess Joke Magazines Many Things Matter What Type Nice Things Pantry People Small Apartment Town Guests Town Visitors Most people will have a few guests visit them during the year depending on how far away they live from their friends and family . No matter what type of home you have, from a grand house with many guests rooms to a small apartment, there are m...

Weather Break
on Sep 24, 2009 in Main Content Tennessee Ramblings Break Change In The Weather Glorious Day Rain And The Sun Weather Today Finally a much needed change in the weather for today at least.  No rain and the sun is shining.  What a glorious day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Learn about Flower arranging – FREE lesson and newsletter...

Happy Birthday – me!
on Sep 19, 2009 in Main Content Tennessee Ramblings Birthday Today Glasses Happy Birthday Many Candles Old Lady Omg Today Is My Birthday Today is my birthday.   Where have the years gone, I can’t believe 63 years have now gone by. OMG I’m becoming an old lady.  But I don’t really feel like one.  I guess that’s the good part.  The bad part is every bone in...

Fall is Looking Good
on Sep 10, 2009 in Tennessee Ramblings Autumn Colors Neighbor Photos Rain Tennessee Trees With all the plentiful rain this year, the trees have not been stressed out as in the past few years.  As a result the Autumn colors should be spectacular this year.  I can hardly wait, although it does mean summer is coming to an end.  This summe...

The Meanings of Flowers
on Sep 5, 2009 in Expressions Of Sympathy Flower Arrangements Main Content Relationships Admiration Beautiful Way Birthdays Anniversaries Flower Meanings Gerber Daisy Happy Colors Lavender Roses Love And Affection Meanings Of Flowers Myriad New Beginnings Orange Roses Pink Roses Purity Red Carnation Red Roses Remembrance Reverence Victorian Times White Carnations White Roses Yellow Roses Flowers make a wonderful gift for any occasion, but most people do not realize that certain flowers have meanings behind them. It was very common during Victorian times for people to use a certain flower to convey a message.  Even today flowers can...

Top 50 Floral Blogs
on Aug 26, 2009 in Flower Arrangements Gardening Main Content Tennessee Ramblings Blog Blogs Interflora New Button I am so happy.  I just received news of being named to the top 50 floral blogs by Interflora in the UK.  You can see my new button on the right stating this.  It really makes me feel good to find out my blog is being read by so many people. Thank...

Principles of flower arrangement: Unity
on Aug 16, 2009 in Flower Arrangements Main Content Accents Additional Material Arranging Flowers Basic Principle Dry Flowers Element Elements Final Arrangement Floral Arrangement Flower Arrangement flower arranging Foilage Foliage Orchids Principles Of Flower Arrangement Purple Color Ribbons Shape Stems Unity The principles of flower arranging are very helpful because they help you to pay attention to small details when arranging flowers, and help to achieve an overall effect that is  professional looking and visually appealing. One of these basic princi...

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Well, wet is back in again!
on Jul 31, 2009 in Main Content Tennessee Ramblings Everone Fall Weather Hope Everone Rain Seems like the rain just does not want to quit.  Been raining most of the month.  Everytime I go outside I end up in a small puddle.  The ground is thoroughly saturated and needs a good rest to dry out.  It really looks like this will be a short...

Principles of Flower Arrangement: Proportion
on Jul 16, 2009 in Flower Arrangements House and Home Main Content Appearance Array Art Form Ascii Cambria Containers Correct Selection Div Elements Fareast Floral Arrangement Floral Arrangements flower arranging Flower Material Flowers Foliage Font Definitions Gerbera Daisy Long Stemmed Roses Mso Orphan Panose Paper Source Principles Of Flower Arrangement Proportion Props Sans Serif Shape Stems Style Definitions Style Name Style Type Theme Font Three Colors Three Fifths Times New Roman Truth Two Ways Floral arranging has become an art form in itself. The arrangements can be as simple or as complicated as you want them to be. However, most people think that putting some flowers and foliage into a container constitutes an arrangement, leaving what...