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welcome back whether you were looking
for a beautiful gift or something to
brighten up your living space this
holiday season why not create a fresh
fall floral arrangement now it sounds so
great here with three hot holiday floral
arrangements this floral designer
Amanda Bowman welcome hi thanks so much
for having me this looks amazing and now
I don't really have a green thumb on me
at all I don't have one and I always get
super intimidated when it comes to
floral ranging like I take my vases in
and say fix it the perfect way to do it
so today we're gonna be talking about a
lot of different things that I get asked
this time of year firstly being how do
you give flowers to your significant
other you know as girls it's really easy
for us to be able to be like yes my
favorite colors pink go crazy but
sometimes whenever us as girls sometimes
if we are picking flowers for guys which
a lot of people actually do we don't
really know where to go from right so
I've actually created a couple of
different designs how to really
implement flowers for us girls and guys
there's all really creative ideas before
you show us an example of how to create
some of these things how do you buy
flowers because a lot of folks you know
fresh flowers can be expensive but you
have some strategies for getting them
inexpensively and making sure they last
so a couple of things that always to
consider as for us we have to move our
product around because it is fresh it is
you know it can go bad so I always
recommend if you just really want
something at the end of the week and you
just have been thinking about i really
want fresh flowers in my house go at the
end of the week call florists on friday
and see hey put me together something
beautiful of whatever you have left at
the end of the week and normally they'll
be able to cut you a deal i'm if it's a
tuesday if you're in luck and you are by
central market central market actually
has $1 roses on all of their roses so
that's always a really great deal i'm
always do make sure though whenever you
are shopping for flowers look for
quality if you see brown crunchy leaves
or if you notice that and there's any
browning or molding it's obviously bad
don't pass on it yeah it's fall off the
stem right as you're picking it yeah if
the flowers already bloomed I think
about that as well okay well let's talk
about the the arrangement for somebody
that you're
another good friend exactly so this on
the end is something that I told my
husband this is what you would buy me if
you were shopping for me lots of color
lots of color very wide range of
botanicals I love tropicals this is a
just a unique way to be able to say
thank you love you bye
and then we also have some more I would
say more masculine style obviously guys
are a little bit more practical normally
they like to have things that last this
is all dried or preserved so this will
actually last forever because you keep
taking care of it the base is beautiful
too then we can for good container is a
really cool idea but also the succulents
these are great and you can buy these
inexpensively absolutely Lowe's Home
Depot has them I love to get them from
just little nurseries around because
they grow them themselves and even some
dollar stores have succulents and that's
a great teachers gift too that would be
fun in the classroom
all right the flower crown this is
something that we often see at weddings
but during the holidays
some people may wear these as well
absolutely I get asked about flower
crowns all the time because you can find
any time of year that you can use them
any occasion but even the rodeo I get a
lot of requests for flower crowns and
baby showers so look at their really
cool first communions that is really
beautiful buying these can be a little
pricey but you're gonna show us an easy
way we can all make them at home exactly
okay
so a couple of things to keep into
consideration whenever you're making
them you can actually buy this tape that
we use at Hobby Lobby any craft store
it's a self-adhesive tape so whenever
you use it you actually are going to be
taping it onto itself does that make
sense is it floral tape or no all the
corsage floral tape okay I'm so whenever
you work with it I went ahead and just
grabbed a little rose I have some pieces
for y'all to use as well okay and just
to break it down here a little bit
farther you've taken a wire some sort of
flexible floral wire and this
cream-colored ribbon here and the wire
is serving as the base so the bare wire
do you wrap it with a floral tape go
ahead and I wrap it around you can even
use jewelry wire it doesn't matter what
type and obviously as long as it can
still bend to your head you know
so again we're just gonna take that tape
and we're gonna twist it on to itself
around the base and I notice all these
flowers are facing the same direction
yes always making sure they're facing
the same direction and a lot of times I
really like to use a lot of different
textures there's actually over eight
textures in here you want it to really
look like you just picked it out from
the garden and just put it together
right right so yeah making sure they're
all going the same direction this is
very pretty I know it's wonderful okay
we're gonna move right along because
this actually could go pretty quickly
and what do you have over here this is
another floral arrangement for us right
yes so we're actually gonna put together
an arrangement and obviously whenever
you are decorating for the holidays
using florals as an excuse me an accent
is really the best way to elevate your
holiday decor the first thing you need
to consider though where am I going to
be putting this am I going to be putting
this over my mantel am i putting this on
my dinner table or wherever because
that's gonna determine the height
basically you don't want the one on the
table and no one okay so we're doing
something a little bit shorter here and
went ahead and put all the greenery in
here for you but whenever you are
designing always make sure that you are
designing with a purpose so today we're
gonna be making a one-sided arrangement
so all the flowers are gonna be on the
front here so that way you can see it
from wherever you're looking oh that's
interesting yeah okay let's go ahead and
get cutting because we're tight on time
here but it's important to to note that
we shouldn't be afraid of cutting these
flowers down right a lot of people buy a
long stem and they're afraid to make it
shorter yes absolutely you got to make
sure that you get it yep and on a 45
degree and looks like you're doing okay
and just make sure it gets in the water
beautiful white is that a ranunculus
ranunculus yes and I always like to
cluster mines together so that way it
looks like how it would grow oh just
like it wouldn't and you always start
with a greenery as the base collector I
do I do it gives you a good foundation
so that way whenever you put the flowers
in things don't rattle around makes it
really easy see the finished product
there in the front but I would say
Courtney is looking very very bad Amanda
thanks for all the tips Ben if you would
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tab on our website this is very festive
always great to see you