How an Open Mind Created an Artistic (and Practical) Cake Runner
When the wedding’s in a museum, your designs should be artistic. When the bride is your daughter and an artist, expectations can escalate. A...
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Want Drama? Elevate Floral Designs These 4 Ways
Why are elevated designs the rage for event flowers? “It’s all about the drama,” answers Chris Norwood AIFD, PFCI and vice president of Tipt...
Read moreHow a "Chopped" Floral Design Can Help You Win Too
She was on stage in front of a large audience earlier this month at the AIFD National Symposium in Washington DC. With the clock running. In one of...
Read more16 Tips from Exploring New Floral Places
Want to add new dimensions to your designs? Travel. Teach. Connect. Understanding the flower possibilities and needs of another region or cultur...
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Ten ways (Minimum) you’ll Design Better with Floral Mesh
Is your work counter crowded? Does simplicity—and beauty—appeal to your floral soul? If it does, what if, with one endlessly useful new prod...
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How to add Elegance to an Edgy Industrial Floral Design
How do you get your floral designs from Flourtown to the national spotlight in Philadelphia? One way is to innovate an intriguing style, refine ...
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Turn Wedding Cakes into Fabulous Flower Cake Tables
Looking for the latest sweet ideas for wedding reception decorations? “Focusing on the cake table is one of the newest wedding trends,” says...
Read moreHow to Create Wearable Floral Haute Couture
Creating floral couture for mannequins and creating fresh flowers designs someone can actually wear? Two very different things. Wearable flor...
Read moreHow to Create Amazing Fresh Flower Couture
Designing amazing fresh flower couture for display or to wear? In addition to creating captivating floral couture looks, challenges can incl...
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Create a Spectacular Flower Chandelier using Floral Foam Tiles
What’s your first step when a bride asks for a large and dramatic fresh flower design you’ve never done before? “Getting over the fear of doing ...
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Aloha Fun: How to Make and Sell Leis Wherever You Are
You don’t have to be Hawaiian or in Hawaii to celebrate with fresh flower leis. Lei-giving is a great way to honor individuals anywhere. Bir...
Read moreHesitate no More: 15 Fabulous Garden and Tropical Flower Arrangements
Photo: Sharon McGukin for Texas Floral Showcase Macaroni and cheese. Bed and breakfast. Chocolate and peanut butter (and almost anything). What ...
Read moreHow and Why to Design with Succulents
With roots? Without? In pots? However you incorporate or sell them, succulents have moved from the steppes and deserts to the garden to mainstre...
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