Sunday, June 30, 2024

Freestyle Using Mitsumata

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June was a busy month! My last arrangement in June for my own pleasure was freestyle using two main materials; Mitsumata and painted allium ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Arrangement with Bamboo Mat

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I have been playing and trying to make an arrangement with bamboo mat (or sheet), for the purpose of future workshop. See below: I used two ...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Friends Remembering Friends

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June/18/2024 was the last class of the season. It was a lovely ending to our year of ikebana with so many memories of friends who are no lon...
Saturday, June 8, 2024

Feverfew and Blue Crystal Bowl

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Actually, feverfew is an herb; you can make tea from it, fresh or dried. It has been called “medieval aspirin” or aspirin of the 18th centur...
Tuesday, June 4, 2024

The Purple Japanese Iris

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The yellow and white Japanese irises are gone, only few purple Japanese irises remaining. But tiny white “feverfew” flowers are just startin...
Friday, May 31, 2024

Peonies and Garden

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The month of May is coming to the end! So are my peonies. This arrangement made on 5/17/2024, one day before my demonstration at Taiwanese G...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

May Class - Freestyle Using Mitsumata

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On May’s class lessons, we have to create two freestyle arrangements: (1) Using Mitsumata,  (2) Using whatever you have in your garden, flow...

May Class Lessons- Ka-bu-wa-ke

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Lesson 3 is variation No.5 Upright Style Moribana. The text book said: One group of arranged branches is called “Kabu” in Ikbana. As this st...

May Class - Freestyle Using Flowers & Materials from Your Garden

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Class Lesson (2) : Peonies, peonies and more peonies in the month of May. Obviously! My materials would have all kinds of peonies from my ga...
Monday, May 20, 2024

Demonstration and Workshop

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A good friend of mine invited me to participate in the demonstration along with Doris herself and Haloko at the Grace Church on Saturday, Ma...