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[pat]

I went to church this morning. I made a eight inch floral wreath to go around the paschal candal (daisies, baby breath, camellias, and carnations) and a three foot foliage and flower cross (including Meyer lemon, box, fern, dusty miller, carnation, camellia, purple mum, baby's breath and some stuff I can't identify). I also helped put candles in bobeches.

I am tired but happy -- I like working with flowers a lot.

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[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Meyer Lemon a famous Chicago gangster from the Prohibition era?

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Umm, I think you're thinking of Meyer Lansky.

[bdot.livejournal.com]

hey, he was pretty close! i'm impressed...by both of you!

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[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

Thank you folks. We'll be here all week!


And thank you, Pat for knowing a setup when it's there.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

*grin* Don't mention it....

[kiya]

I find there's something very satisfying about working with plants, about getting my hands in the dirt. (I just spent a while working on potting my plants, and the Easter basket of bulbs my mother-in-law spent us got potted Wednesday night and one's starting to emit a vibrant purple-blue flower.)

It's an alive thing.

I get some of the same from when I've worked with dried flowers for crafting purposes, which is I think the closest I've come to your wreaths and such. I find it connecting and grounding.

My hands smell of earth.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

It's also a sense of making art out of something very fragile and temporal. And, as my friend who taught me flower arranging says "You can't really mess up flowers."

[bdot.livejournal.com]

my first mother-in-law was on alter guild at trinity episcopal in redlands and did alot of the flower arranging stuff. she knows the names of all the flowers and greens that are used in alter arrangemnets. after meaghan was born, she did some flower arrangments with dries and artificial flowers for meaghan's room.

i'm glad you had a good time. BTW, please tell folks that meaghan and i say hello tomorrow. i assume you are going to easter sunday church! pretty much, the people who would remember us are those from the covenant group and the rector etc...

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I'll be sure and pass along your greetings tomorrow. Happy Easter to you and Meaghan!