How to Make Beautiful Flower Arrangements

edible arrangements

I need inspiration, I have to do a flower arrangement depicting a pantomime, and I am lost for ideas!!

Any help really appreciated!!

All i can come up with at the moment is: Put some branches of Pusssy* Willow or something else with a cat like name, into a pair of wellie boots. = Puss in boots.
(spelling mistake is deliberate to avoid it being blocked)

If i come up with anything better I’ll add it.

A customer comes into your shop carrying a gorgeous oval bowl. It’s very large, low, and has a pale gray crackled glaze; the customer says it’s a bonsai container that he picked up during a trip to Japan. He wants you to make an arrangement of fresh flowers in it for the foyer of his business, because a celebration will take place there next week. The furnishings in the foyer are very modern. The bowl is to sit on a counter, so the arrangement will be visible from both sides. The customer says the colors in the foyer are black, white, and gray. He wants something very artistic so suit the bowl. After he leaves you with the bowl, it occurs to you that a parallel systems design might be just what this container needs.

1. To prepare the oval ceramic bowl, you should
A. use green ¼ inch bowl tape in a plus sign to prevent the standard foam you intend to use from shifting.
B. wash the bowl thoroughly, dry it carefully, attach dry foam with a plus sign of clear bowl tape to the bowl.
C. wash the bowl thoroughly, dry it carefully, glue standard foam while it’s still dry securely to the bottom of the bowl with pan glue, and then soak the foam.
D. wash the bowl carefully, fill it with water, and wedge in a piece of standard foam that fits snugly in the bowl.

2. Your parallel systems design for this customer must be defined by
A. an s-curve of ivy cascading below the bowl.
B. at least two parallel groups of upright flowering branches used as line materials.
C. a variety of spring flowers arranged as if they were growing in a garden.
D. perfect lines of massed chrysanthemums forming concentric circles of color.

3. You decide to cover the bare foam left visible in this striking contemporary arrangement with maroon leaves that have an interesting gray reverse; you place the leaves on top of each other so that many leaf edges form a flat pattern and all the foam disappears. This technique is
A. basing by layering
B. basing by pavé
C. basing by terracing
D. basing by pillowing

4. You decide that you can add tulips to this parallel systems design if you can make them into an upright column by tying them with raffia to keep them from bending into curves as tulips often do. This technique is called
A. banding.
B. binding.
C. framing.
D. skeletonizing.

A customer comes in with a request for a romantic arrangement to be placed on a piano in her living room which is pale pink and white. A friend who’s a professional pianist has graciously offered to entertain her extended family at a reunion to be held at her house. She wants to honor her friend with a fluid, eye-catching arrangement to suit the classical music she’ll be playing for them.

5. You immediately suggest a Hogarth arrangement and you describe it to the customer as
A. an arrangement of cascading elements.
B. an arrangement with equally strong vertical and horizontal elements.
C. an arrangement with a continuous line in an s-shape.
D. an arrangement with a triangular shape in which the three points symbolize heaven, humans, and earth.

6. You decide to use pink, rose, maroon, and mauve flowers. Your color scheme is
A. triad.
B. complementary.
C. monochromatic.
D. analogous.

7. The container for your Hogarth arrangement should be
A. a low basket with plastic liner.
B. a ceramic dish filled with river rock.
C. a tall ceramic vase with wet foam and room for water.
D. a low, ball-shaped glass vase filled with water.

Someone at your local public TV station knows that you want to break into party floral designing. This TV executive went to a party where you had created an amazing set piece surrounding a small dance floor. She was impressed. She’s asked you to supply floral arrangements as a background feature for a live TV concert of a popular local rock band to air next month. You’ll receive an on-screen plug and you’ll be allowed to hand out brochures about your business to the studio audience. The band is very modern and sophisticated. A great opportunity to make a name for yourself has fallen in your lap, what shall you do to get noticed and at the same time give this band an artful set to back them?

8. You know that you want to make reference to this band’s punk influences, but you want to update the set-piece to inject your own feelings about their music, so you choose to create
A. a set piece of Flemish arrangements that have fallen and broken.
B. a set piece of waterfall arrangements.
C. a set piece of Ikebana in the abstract style.
D. a set piece in the new wave style with an interpretive approach.

9. In several areas of your design for the rock concert set, you decide to place identically drooping gladiolus leaves in pairs one behind the other. This technique is called
A. sequencing.
B. shadowing.
C. g

Please do not solicit answers on Yahoo, as this is considered cheating.
If you need assistance, please contact the school.

Penn Foster

A porktastic question my dear, I`m no good at either….

good profit. The location that i am looking at is a middle to upper class city, suburb of cleveland ohio. I would really like to know what you personally think of edible arrangements when you hear about it. Would you go there, how often, and do you think that opening a business like that is a good idea at this time. It will be near a casco/samsclub and bestbuy store. Rent will be around $3,000/month and total cost of business is near $200,000. By the way this store sells flowers that are actually fruit, arranged as a bauque. If you dont think that this store will make alot of money what other diffrent type of store would yourecommendd for me to open, like and arcade, or ups store..Please give me your idea as to what you would like to have in your city, a store that is not to big. Thank you so much!!!!!! 20pts

Call me skeptical, but in THIS economy I would be very leery to open something such as that…I don’t meant to burst your bubble, but with the way folks are losing jobs, and this being something that isn’t a necessity….IMHO, it’s taking a pretty big risk.

Personally, if I HAD to open something – it would be something like a beauty salon. Something that is the LAST thing that people would cut out if they were broke – which is usually their hairdresser/barber and make-up products

I wish you luck!!

PS- If you DO decide to go with this, please check to make sure that name isn’t nationally trademarked before you go too far. I seem to recall hearing that name before, and it would blow if you got too set on the name and then found out it wasn’t available!

–