- What's up, I'm chilling out with Fortune Feimster.
(audience applauds and cheers)
And it is no secret that I have a favorite flower.
I have a tattoo of it.
So take a look at our lobby as well.
Here to teach us how to make a super simple
summer inspired sunflower arrangement is trendsetter
and lifestyle guru Theodore Leaf.
Give it up.
(audience applauds) - Thank you
for having me back.
- I love when you come.
You make me feel horrible about arranging things. (laughing)
- No, you have gotten better every time.
- You are such a beautiful liar.
Meet Fortune.
(laughing) - So nice to meet you, love.
- Theodore, it is nice to meet you.
I can't, I'm not great at this stuff either.
- Oh god.
- I've got you. - Okay.
- We are both in the same boat, okay.
- I have no skills. - Well tell us about
what we're making.
- Well, it's summer so we wanted to change it up.
First things first, you need a gorgeous vessel.
So this is actually a Longaburger basket
which is made in Ohio, which is my home state.
- Okay. - Shout out.
- John Legend will be proud.
- Yes.
- Yes. (laughing)
- And inside they have a plastic liner
which I have filled with floral foam.
So this is gonna be so easy.
- Okay, and I noticed it's kind of wet.
- It has been soaked in water. - You're supposed
to get it wet?
- You soak it until it sinks.
When it sinks, we go to go to town.
- Okay. - All right?
So I just wanna start with the sunflower
just to get kind of the height
'cause otherwise it'll go crazy.
And you just stick it in and you're good to go.
- You stick it in the green thing?
- Just in the center.
That's what this floral foam is for.
And then you just pop your greens in.
We've pre cut most of them just
to make things a little easier.
- I should be a lot handier than I am.
- I mean, I think, well, you got the one flower.
You're doing okay.
It's a little wrestle.
And then just get more greens.
We've got some olive branches in here.
- Oh, I like the olive branch.
- And then.
- When it works out.
- I like a good olive branch.
- Yeah.
- I like an olive
in a martini. - When you're in a real,
when in a tiff with somebody, huh? (laughing)
- Yeah, doesn't always work.
- Here my love, just another one.
- Just an olive branch.
- Yeah, there you go, there you go.
- So what next?
- Lots more sunflowers.
- Oh, lots more sunflowers. - So now we've got the greens.
Now we can really go for the sunflowers.
And I like to use thicker scissors
to cut these cause they're big.
I love sunflowers
because in Ohio they grow right with the corn fields.
Nice and high.
- Really, we're really giving Ohio a lot of air time.
(laughing)
- My husband is from North Carolina.
My husband is from North Carolina.
- Oh, I love that.
Shout out North Carolina.
- Greensboro.
- That's right.
- This is the state episode.
We're just gonna cover them all.
- We're just gonna -
♪ Alabama, Alaska and ♪
You know that song for kids. - Yes, absolutely.
- Do we know what we're going for?
- No, at no point. - Well, we're just gonna
start there. - you hear me?
And we're going to go forward.
So once you get a bunch of sunflowers
and you could definitely use more sunflowers.
You know how many sunflowers I put in there?
10.
- Oh and I need to, I should use them all?
- Get involved. - Okay.
- I think he's shaming you.
- I'm just, you know, checking in.
- Kelly. - Checking in.
- Then we're gonna go with the blue.
And then you can just pop those in.
Now of course we're all walking backward, working backwards.
- Oh, I was like, "I'm not walking anywhere." (laughing)
- And then pop in the white.
- Yeah.
- Get a little bit of thistle in here.
But you can put a couple of those in.
I like those to be a little bit higher.
If you see how I've got these
just like tucked out just a little bit.
So these are dyed and they are dry flowers.
- Who dyed them?
- Some lovely people that were not me.
- They were not me but. - Oh, okay, I didn't know.
I didn't know if that was part of the journey too.
- It was not part of my journey.
(laughing) I just, I just used my eye.
Be careful, I don't want you to get prickled.
- Oh, I already did.
But I'm spit on like blue, I'm fine.
- All right.
So the bright blue ones, we just pop those in.
- I don't.
- So when you're doing flowers
I highly recommend buy more than you think you need
because obviously this is a pretty decent sized basket.
So we need to fill her up.
- Yeah.
- If I were to bring this basket home to my wife
I think she'd be angry.
- Really?
- I think, I think, - Well, it's not great.
- I think she might I didn't love her
if I did this to her.
- Yeah, she'd like, "Do you, do you really love me?
"'Cause that bouquet doesn't look like it."
- Just spread the color out a little bit more.
Just fill in with more greens.
- Okay. - A couple more greens
and the blues.
- I had, I had an accident.
- With your thistle?
- Yeah.
(laughing)
- Is that?
That looks more like a garnish for a drink.
- I would not want that as a garnish.
That would be very prickly, okay.
- We need more, more color.
- Just a little bit more colors.
- Okay, see, I feel like nobody needs to see the back.
- Exactly.
- Okay, how do we finish this up?
- So basically you just put in your little edges
and you are good to go.
For yours, I would do like a little moss or something.
'Cause then you could have it a little bit taller.
Maybe a little like wheat grass.
You could get creative.
- Oh yeah, those little spiky things to come out.
- Yeah, exactly.
- I think I always go too tall.
I like it to look like wild.
- And I even pre-cut them?
We'll cut them even smaller next time.
- I know, I like it wild looking.
- Well, it's wild. - I think it looks wild.
- It's wild.
- Thank you so much, Theodore.
- Thank you.