nothing really beats a fresh arrangement
at home and today you're sort of showing
us how to do a different take on a fresh
or management this would be for the
upcoming holidays it's a new twist on
your traditional cornucopia so this
would be a nice centerpiece that you
could have at your house for the
Thanksgiving holidays or just to have
something in your house nice for fall it
looks awesome and by the way down at the
end of the table there that's sort of
like the finished product right right
and what we've done here is we've taken
a blocking of the colors so we've got
all of the yellows here all of the Reds
here beautiful and coming on around with
all of the oranges so you're getting
something in a 360 - no matter where
your seat is on that table that is so
incredible okay normally we want to just
outsource this at least I do Alain I
would call you an outsource but but it's
so fun to make it but mine would not
turn out like that but you're saying you
can give us the tools to do this at home
should we choose not to call you to make
it correct okay well let's get started
because this is so awesome okay well the
first thing that we've started with is
just your traditional little pie plate
on the bottom okay it's an actual in
some way yeah okay
so then we have a block of floral foam
on the inside and don't let this scare
people at home too because floral foam
this is available and like miles dollars
still it separates or your local florist
or your local plants and you soak it you
soak it in water right you dip it in
water you fill your sink with water and
then you drop the brick in and let it
naturally soak up the water you don't
force it down or it won't hydrate
properly oh the reason we're using this
saturated brick is because we are gonna
insert some fresh flowers into the into
the oasis got it and they'll continue
drinking the flowers as the water
because you have your arrangement in the
pie plate so you're gonna after you you
know you're gonna add a little bit of
water so it will continually drink the
drink up the water cool so okay so we've
got this set I play to our foam yeah so
what I've done is I've got some Magnolia
branches if you don't have a magnolia
tree in your yard probably your neighbor
does definitely and just go out and wait
no yes absolutely
don't unclip your neighbors yes
knock on the door ya know one of the
kids out it's fine Magnolia foliage and
I've just inserted it here right into
the foam right close to the base
beautiful listen I'm gonna come around
the back here because this one's mine
over here right correct
and I've got all y'all's little fruit
cutouts so so just with the floral foam
I just cut a wedge of it place it on top
and then had the pumpkin elevated there
okay cool
so what I have here are the ornamental
peppers in the three different colors
the red orange and yellow and then we're
gonna block all of the yellow product
here the orange and then the reds
oh you sectioned it off like that but
people could do it randomly stronger
impact if you block it like this so so
group the colors together okay should we
worry about it not preserving like is
this just we leaving it out for like a
week no yes you can easily easily leave
this out a week now the flowers will
hold up the Protea will hold up forever
that's what that's a pin cushion protein
oh dear that's beautiful
so the roses may wilt over the time but
you can always replace this all of this
fruit is gonna hold up for a very long
time okay okay so I have everything
already picked for you also pick up your
lemon okay and you want to insert that
where the yellow product notice we're
using what is the stick here you stick
it's just a floral pick that we use in
the industry where do you get this from
your floral shop not from the craft
store go to your florist okay so you
just shove it into the fruit yeah just
shove it in there okay and then you just
insert it in your yellow section in your
yellow section and the way you've
created this base Elaine is essentially
you've you've put these magnolia leaves
around the bottom portion right pumpkin
on the top but then you've done the
groupings just sort of in between those
correct right I did three groupings of
the magnolias foliages and then we're
just going in between those groupings of
the full of the foliage so there are
sort of rules but they're very loose
okay got it I like one big thing about
floral designing is you just really
don't want to do an overkill you just
kind of have to know when is enough is
enough so and what I think is
interesting too I've heard a lot about
using groupings of threes the red comes
to floral right how we find in nature
yes sometimes if you does if you have
one type of flower in the arrangement it
looks like you did a cooler cleaner and
you only had one flower left and either
so the kind of rule of thumb in the
industry is we never use one of anything
okay okay and then so these items that
are in the vase we can use these as well
yes so they're again going within your
color area you can insert your
sunflowers into the yellow
Elayne by the way has a flower shop down
in my Erland court just down the street
from channel 2 on Bissonnette yeah
Elaine's florist Beechnut right and so
you can stop by in tell her Houston life
Sencha and you mostly do a lot of
in-home things if you didn't want to
make this at home right with the
upcoming holidays like I said you can
definitely order it online excuse me not
online you can give us a call and we can
help you with that but people you have
ready-made Arrangements though some
people could stop by and buy an
arrangement or if they had a custom
order you could also handle that as well
yeah okay the majority of our customers
just call in and say you know this is
what I'd like we really appreciate the
the local support especially in the
Maryland area where we all were flooded
oh my goodness well we're glad to see
you have bounced back and thank you for
supporting our community as well and
making things a little more beautiful
Elaine so people want to find you it's
Elaine's florist calm correct and if I
do say so myself
I would say we're ready for a job Elaine
let us know if you need some extra
holiday help yes we we take all persons
and we will give you the broom because
we need a broom quite a bit of sweeping
in the industry perfect question buckets
you working on these but we got to take
a commercial break Elaine's thanks so
much for stopping by
Houston life we'll be right back