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Kathy Mustard, AIFD, CAFA Design Workshop: June/July 2007

Kathy Mustard, AIFD, CAFA

Written by Kathy Mustard, AIFD, CAFA   
 “GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT”
Design notes - This design is well suited for a coffee table or end table in a funeral home.
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Photography by Bochsler Creative Solutions. Floral Goods donated by Hofland.


Decorative Elements:
•    one Granville planter 30 x 30 x 5 cm
•    one bundle bleached osier
•    decorative spool wire
•    1-1/2 blocks of oasis

Floral Products:
•    35 red roses
•    half a bunch statice
•    two stems Phoenix Robellini palm
•    16 sempervivum

Construction:
•     Glue dry oasis into base.  When glue has dried, soak with water until hydrated.
•    Insert roses, statice and sempervivum.
•    Tie grid together, then lay wire in a random pattern over top of the structure.
•    Wire three wooden skewers on bottom side of grid and insert into oasis, resting approximately three inches above the top of the roses.
•    Insert remaining roses through the grid.