Ikebana lesson on Jan 21
We practiced the vertical form with the branches of pussy willow. This plant looks like snowing with the tiny white silver bud. It’s interesting to use this type of branches as we can easily bend and reform them.
Ikebana lesson on Dec 10
We practiced the ikebana work for the New Year yesterday. It was difficult to create balance and harmony with more flower materials as usual. However, every participant did a great work! I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Ikebana lesson on Nov 19
We practiced the new forme with using the branches of ruscus. As for the flowers, we used eryngium, hypericum and Japanese skimmia.It’s a bit earlier to prepare for the Christmas, however, we created the beautiful flower works for the Christmas season.
Flower arrangement for the second week @Sushi-bar
The flowers of sword lily reach full bloom! As this flower is much longer with lots of buds than another flowers, we can barely see full bloom until the edge of the flowers. I also adopted the fruit of lotus and flowers of den phal for this work. Every material has a strong personality, but
Ikebana and tea ceremony at musée japonais
I organized the ikebana workshop and tea ceremony at musée japonais which is located in Castelnau-le-Lez yesterday. Thank you very much for coming to visit the great museum, create the beautiful floral composition, and attend the tea ceremony. I’m very glad to share the peaceful moment with them there. It was such a perfect day
Flower arrangement for the fourth week @Sushi-bar
I used the large leaf of Japanese aralia this week with some flowers that has the fall tints. Japanese aralia is called ‘ Yatsude‘ in Japanese which literally means 8 hands as it looks like a hand with 8 fingers. I realized that the colors of each flower gets darker little by little as autumn