Arrangement For Celebration

Team Taiwan just shocked the world! They clinched the 2024 WBSC Premier 12 Championship by crushing Japan (4 to 0).  Premier 12 is like the World Cup of baseball. You have the 12 highest ranked international teams all battling it out and Japan has always been a total powerhouse. But Team Taiwan just outplayed them in every way from the first pitch to the final out!  This victory is huge for Taiwanese baseball. They didn’t just win a game. They united a nation and brought everyone together!  I am so proud and happy for the young Taiwanese team players! (11/25/2024)

Lessons for November (2) - Vegetables and or Fruits in an Arrangement

Lessons #2 in the afternoon: We had another lesson to learn and arrangement.  It is November and Thanksgiving is approaching! So, we would have arrangement on the Thanksgiving feast table or …Therefore the lesson were on the book 2 Morimono or combine with book 4 vegetables and /or fruits in an arrangement. (11/19/2024)

I combined place mate and container 

Sensei’s Morimono 

By classmate 

By classmate 

By classmate 

Lessons for November (1) - Weaving Plants Branches

For this month’s (11/19/2024)  morning class lesson, we inspired by master Kawana’s conference workshop on weaving branches. I brought my own curly willow branches to class or you could purchase bundle of them. We learned from Hata Sensei’s demo and arranged with them. 

In class, in and out weaving the willow branches 

At home, rearranged using less tulips 

Sensei’s demo using long leaves to weave

Marcia’s arrangement 

Using dogwood branches by classmate 

By classmate 

Color of The Container - The Subject of My Demonstration

The “Color of the Container” was the subject of my demonstration for the Buxmont Study Group’s annual exhibition. Since then I had been practicing for a few times with two different kinds of containers; ceramic and glass. I chose the black and white ceramic container to do the demonstration because I had a better idea and the materials I liked. ( Japanese anemone, baby breath, mum and black painted branches)

Tried a day before using the actual materials 

Even though less is more! But arranged it from behind 
and faced audiences was not the same thing!

Tried at home using mums from my garden 

Purple and white glass vase

Playing around with mum, dahlia and paper

Sogetsu Buxmot Study Group- 9th Annual Exhibition

Sogetsu BuxMont Study Group’s 9th annual exhibit was held 11/9/2024. In addition to the demonstration by the certified teachers. Here were mine and some of the study group members’ arrangements:

“Brighen My Day” (11/9/2024)

Rearranged at home 

Perfectly Imperfect

I have moved all my orchids and house plants inside the house already, since the weather has been turning colder, especially at night.  When I cleaned my house plants Philodendron, I trimmed some yellow and dead leaves, I used that not perfect leaves to arrange in a tall vase with mum, bittersweet and semi-dry Hydrangea. I named the title “Perfectly Imperfect” (缺陷美).

Ikebana International 19th NCARC - Connecting Through Ikebana - Master’s Demonstrates

Iemoto Naohiro Kasuya - Fourth Headmaster of the Ichiyo School of Ikebana.  I missed his demonstrations, but I heard he did a breathtaking and stunting performance! The pictures below were taken from a friend.

Kyoko Petersen- Senior Professor of Ikenobo Ikebana, the highest level of Classical Rikka at the Central Institute of the Ikenobo School in Kyoto. Mrs. Petersen has exhorted, demonstrated and taught ikebana throughout the US, Germany, Israel, Jorden and Morocco…  see below: 1to 4 pictures.