J Marie Floral Design

Playing with some flowers from Trader Joe's. Trial centerpiece for an upcoming wedding.

Just playing around with some leftover flowers and some from my neighbors yard. The ribbon was hand dyed by my neighbor.

I had the privilege of helping out Unexpected Blooms recycle flowers today, and deliver almost 100 vases Benninghoven Staff members collected!

This is a great way to recycle flowers from weddings and events

Unexpected Blooms brings joy in the form of free flowers to hospice patients KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Cameron and Carolyn Elliot have a passion for flowers. "We are an organization that takes flowers that typically would be thrown away and we re-purpose those and recycle those into new arrangements to create smiles," Cameron Elliot, co-founder of Unexpected Blooms, said. They are...

I attended a workshop on making those big beautiful loose bouquets. The secret, chicken wire!

Playing with flowers for an upcoming wedding, I love the colors.

This is another group on the east coast that repurposes flowers

Oh, WHAT A FEELING…… Perhaps it was a typical day. Perhaps it was a good day. Perhaps it wasn’t. Maybe it was a little lonely. No matter how the day was going, it all changed when the flowers arrived! They were a pleasant surprise! And no matter what the day had been like, the smiles increased! Spirits rose! — …