Friday, March 17, 2017

CREATIVE FLOWER WORKSHOP

A DAY WITH FLOWERS, PHOTOGRAPHY AND DELICIOUS FOOD

creative flower workshop photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengetchen.com

Welcome to see bits of last Sunday when we had our relaxed creative day with flowers at työhuone ovi 10. 

creative flower workshop photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengetchen.com

We made Creative Flower Workshop together with lovely and talented Laura Syväniemi from Lovejunedesign. A day was combination of making a flower arrangement, photographing it and having a delicious lunch and dessert by my dear workspace colleague cook and book author Meri-Tuuli Lindström.

creative flower workshop photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengetchen.com

Getting to know chicken wire. 

creative flower workshop photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengetchen.com

It's amazing how silent it can be when all the ladies are concentrating in creating the flower arrangement.

creative flower workshop photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengetchen.com

From the Laura's gorgeous flower bar students could take so many beautiful flowers. 

creative flower workshop photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengetchen.com

It has been super fun to plan and make the workshop happen with Laura. Here she is telling about roses. Flowers have their own nature. Some of them are very fragile, some very straight, some very difficult to maintain and the list is endless. There are lots of things to learn. I wish I had made my 10 000 hours already but no - I'm in chapter one.

creative flower workshop photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengetchen.com

It's amazing to see how different the flower arrangements are from same flowers. I have arranged already quite a few flower workshops since August 2016 and not in any of them people made the same. I think we bring a lot of our personality to our work and I think that is wonderful and THE thing. We can be creative in so many ways. In workshop we try to support students own creative process. For me one very important thing in creating is feeling relaxed. I sure you it makes things easier with better result. But we all have our own way to create so whatever works for you - use it.

creative flower workshop photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengetchen.com

Be never hungry when creating - that is almost my rule number one. I get easily distracted if I am hungry not forgetting I need a good music while working.

creative flower workshop photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengetchen.com

This pic above is a beautiful flower arrangement by it's creator. But when you bring it in front of the camera there are some things you see more clearly. It's different if this arrangement would be on the party table. It's backround isn't so clear and it's looked at from almost every angle. In photo you can see only one side. Together with student we made it ready for the photo. I try to help student to see the problems or the challenges in the arrangement when we are photographing it. We try to balance and shape the work as beautiful as possible.
 
creative flower workshop photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengetchen.com

See the difference?
This gorgeous flower arrangement is by Eeva.

I hope you enjoyed the post. Maybe even got excited about flowers? You are always very welcome to our flower workshops. We don't just make a flower arrangement, we want to create a full relaxed and creative experience for you. After the workshop you have a beautiful flower arrangement, a pic of it in your camera or phone, great experince of tasty food and hopefully your mind is relaxed and full of inspiration.

Quite nice don't you think?

Thank you for all our lovely students!
  
Have a lovely weekend <3

xoxo
Kreetta 

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