January General Meeting Announcement

Hello Everyone!!! The Society for the Advancement of Floral Design (SAFD) will hold its January meeting on Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at the Cypress Creek Christian Community Center (The Forum) located at 6823 Cypresswood Drive, Spring, Texas 77379. Refreshments will be served at 6:30pm with the meeting to start promptly at 7:00pm.

SAFD will welcome Certified Floral Designer Alan Masters. Mr. Masters, who has been designing floral arrangements for 30 years, will present “A Compendium of Caliginous Curiosities!” His program will be filled with up cycles and reinventions. Based on a growing trend of Steampunk, we will learn to repurpose some of those things that all of us have lying around the house.

For further information, please contact Linda Jackson at (832)454-0330 or email at safd.houston@yahoo.com

Can't wait to see you at the beginning of the year!!!! 

Here are some pics of Alan's last presentation, we hope you enjoy.
 

 

Makeup Monday Madness!

Hey Everyone!!! It's Makeup Monday Madness!!!! Here is are some basic tips for an arrangement. This can also act as a good refresher for those who are more experienced!
"If you are making a low arrangement, for example an arrangement for the dinner table, the arrangement should be wider than the container in which it is arranged. Make sure that the size, shape and color of the arrangement will harmonize with the table setting.

Tall flower arrangements should be at least one and a half times taller than the container in which the flowers are arranged.

The floral design should include a front and a back part of the arrangement if the arrangement is not going to be a circle shaped flower arrangement.

First always arrange the widest and tallest flowers of the shape that you chose. Now fill up with smaller blooms and then fill around the base and lower part of the arrangement with foliage and fillers to hide stems and the Oasis."
I got this information from the link below.
http://www.flowercourses.co.za/index.php/basic-flower-arrangement-rules 

Happy Holidays!!!

Happy Holidays Everyone from the SAFD Board Members!!!! Hope y'all are relaxing, spending time with family, and eating lots of good home cooked meals!!! See y'all in 2015!!!

Makeup Monday Madness!!!

Hey Everyone!!! It's Makeup Monday Madness!!! My quick tip for this Monday is how to cut the ends of your ribbon bows. This little tip can just spruce up your last minute present wrapping! You can cut the ends straight, the V-cut, and slanted (this can be either slant up or down). There ya have it! Quick and easy! My personal favorite is the v-cut, to me it looks more professional. Also if you're using a type of ribbon that unravels easily, then the v-cut is your best bet. It is less likely to unravel or fray. Happy Holidays Everyone!!! Hope this helps :)

Straight

V-Cut

Slanted Up

Slanted Down

Christmas Workshop with Nora Cisneros 12/16/14

Nora Cisneros, TMFA, taught SAFD memebers how to make a beautiful Christmas arrangement! We learned so much and really appreciate Nora's instruction and time spent with us! Thank you Nora!!! And Great Job Ladies on these breathtaking arrangements!!! 

Here is Nora Cisneros with the final product! How Gorgeous!

Here is the entire room filled with people excited to make this Christmas Design!

Here's Nora instructing us!

Almost done! But not quite! 

Here are pics of all the members who attended! I wanted to get a pic of everyone working hard on the flowers, bow making, and accent placing! Great Job Ladies! Your hard work paid off!

Let's tackle this bow making ordeal!

Ready to place sparkly accents!

Here at SAFD, you will always be offered help with anything you're having trouble with! First time bow making can be difficult!

Floral Friday Findings

Hello Everyone!!! Guess what time it is?! That's right! It's Floral Friday Findings!!! Today's tip is from a cute blog on how to restyle an original holiday arrangement (in this case it was Mother's Day but you can do it for any Holiday or main arrangement) and make the flowers last for weeks! Shannon, the blogger, said that her flowers lasted 3.5 weeks!!! That's amazing! All you do is take out the good blooms of your original arrangement, recut the stems at an angle, put a penny or some bleach in new water of your new vase/container and voilà! A new (or in Shannon's case many new) cute floral arrangements for another week! Oh! Another great tip for the new year is that Marsala is the new Pantone color! It's "a naturally robust and earthy wine red!" Happy Floral Designing! Here are the links: 

http://foxhollowcottage.com/2014/05/tips-and-ideas-for-making-cut-flowers-last.html

http://www.pantone.com/pages/index.aspx?pg=21163

Community Affairs Workshop 12/11/14

"We created beautiful arrangements  with fresh flowers and Christmas greens all embellished with ornaments and ribbons! These arrangements were for the Park Manor Nursing Home in Tomball to bright up the dining hall and bring lots of smiles and cheer!"

-Pam Dube, Community Affairs Chairman-

Thank you Pam Dube for organizing such a wonderful workshop! And thank you SAFD members for creating such marvelous arrangements!

Bus Trip to Martha's Bloomers and Messina Hof Winery 11/12/14

"We went to Marthas Bloomers in Navasota. We shopped in the gift shop an hour and a half or so, then we at lunch in Tuscany Room. The Quiche was delicious and so was the cobbler!

The Messina Hof Winery and Resort had a nice presentation of the history of the founder and place there. We walked to the vine yards, walked through the brewery, and were shown how wine is made and stored. We learned that the wine is stored in barrels of different wood types and that the grapes take in the wood for flavoring.  Then we went in and had a wine tasting of four different types of wine and were shown how to savor the flavor! Tricks like swirling the wine in our mouths before swallowing and "clucking" which is said to give taste buds a different flavor. Trilling is holding white wine at the front of your tongue and sucking in air like you’re sucking through a straw

Clucking is holding red wine at the back of your palette and slowly making a clucking motion with your tongue."

-Aida Quesada, Bus Trip Organizer-

These ladies sound like they had a wonderful time! Wish I could've come, but thank you for sharing your experience and for planning this awesome fun-filled bus trip Aida!