Download or read book Meaningful Bouquets written by Leigh Okies and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Say it with flowers. This visual bouquet includes a photographic glossary of popular flower types and their Victorian meanings, followed by step-by-step instructions for creating 25 beautiful arrangements. From Celebration and Luck, to Happiness and Forgiveness, each bespoke bunch of flowers suits an important occasion or recipient. Blooming with inspiring lifestyle photography and watercolor botanical illustrations throughout, Meaningful Bouquets brings a truly personal touch to flower arranging.

Download or read book Say It with Flowers written by Kelsie Hayes and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people send flowers, and what secret meanings do they hold? This entertaining and addictive little photo-rich volume holds the answers. Since opening NYC-based flower shop POPUPFLORIST, owner Kelsie Hayes has collected the most memorable notes customers have written to accompany an arrangement. These messages range from congratulatory to endearing, hilarious, condoling, sexy, apologetic, and even mysterious, and they offer a peek into the private lives of everyday people. This petite gift book collects 52 of these anonymous notecards, each paired with a flower arrangement inspired by the sender's words and designed with POPUPFLORIST's signature flair, including: A structural trio of anthurium stems, which represent lust, paired with a sexy invitation. A pair of bud vases for a family who just found out they're having twins: "Two little babes instead of one, double the joy and double the fun!" A joyful bouquet of Gerber daisies alongside a congratulatory message for a friend who just got a nose job. A bunch of mauve dahlias accompanied by an enigmatic apology note: “After the past 4 years, I won’t give up now. I do, and will always, love you. If you want to see me, I will be waiting at Radio City Music Hall, sitting in our seats for Billy Joel. I hope that I’m lucky enough to see you there.” A glossary shares the meanings of different flowers to help you create your own arrangements for big life moments, from birthdays to births to breakups. A sweet gift alongside a vase of blooms, this charming hardcover is as inspiring as it is entertaining, and offers expert guidance on how to “say it with flowers” by arranging your own meaningful bouquets. UNIQUE GIFT BOOK: This petite, artfully designed book is irresistible and so fun to flip through. Affordably priced, it makes a sweet add-on gift alongside a bouquet of blooms for a birthday, housewarming, Mother's Day, or other occasion. GLIMPSE INTO OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES: The success of projects like PostSecret, Meet Cutes NYC, and Humans of New York demonstrates that people love peeking into each other’s lives. We all want to validate and feel less alone in our experiences, and having a window into peoples' intimate inner worlds makes us feel more human and more connected. ON-TREND FLOWER BOOK: Kelsie Hayes is a popular, in-demand florist, having created bouquets for Gigi Hadid, Eva Chen, Gucci, Netflix, and more. She leads an all-women team that creates stylish, on-trend bouquets. The book's photography beautifully showcases her appealing aesthetic and fresh approach to floral artwork. Perfect for: Flower lovers Fans of POPUPFLORIST Anyone who enjoys sending flowers to friends or loved ones Shoppers looking for a Mother's Day, Valentine’s, birthday, or girlfriend gift Readers who love The Language of Flowers, Floriography, Other People’s Love Letters, and The Humans of New York

Download or read book The Love Language of Flowers written by Jess Buttermore and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fresh Twist on Vintage Flower Meanings & Arrangements "This book is enchanting to the eyes, inspiring for the mind, and refreshing for the soul.” —Maggie Hyde, Petal Back Farm #1 New Release in Flower Arranging, Plant & Animal Photography, Photograpy Equipment & Techniques, Nature Literary Criticism, Victorian Literary Criticism, and Botany of Flowers This floriography guide is a gorgeous and inspired combination of vintage Victorian flower meanings, quotes, and lore perfectly entwined with a contemporary toolbox for creating stunning flower arrangements and bouquets. For those who want to create beautiful bouquets and flower arrangements with history. Blooming with inspirational lifestyle photography by Jess Buttermore of Cedar House Living, The Love Language of Flowers will blow you away with an intriguing history of flowers alongside step-by-step instructions for creating 25 tasteful, meaningful arrangements. Express yourself and show others you care. With stunning photographs of different types of flowers, a detailed list of floral arranging tools and supplies, and fascinating Victorian flower meanings, The Love Language of Flowers provides you with an elegant way to express your feelings or bring your self-care to the next level. Inside The Love Language of Flowers, find: A visual glossary of flowers and their Victorian meanings Simple step-by-step instructions for creating twenty-five gorgeous floral arrangements Suggestions for introducing contemporary plants and other interesting elements to bring a fresh look to classic bouquets If you like botanical books illustrated with stunning photography and floral design, such as Floriography, The Complete Language of Flowers, or Growing Flowers, you’ll love The Love Language of Flowers.

Download or read book Beautiful Bouquets Culled from the Poets of All Countries With Coloured Illustrations Etc Selected edited by L V i e Laura Jewry Afterwards Valentine written by L. V. and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Being with Flowers written by Anthony Ward and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to become one with nature and create beautiful flower arrangements with Being with Flowers. Floral arrangements are so much more than a decoration. They provide a way to connect to nature and the world around us. Master floral sculptor, Anthony Ward, shows you how to use your relationship to flowers to incorporate peace in your life and create beautiful floral designs. Including creative exercises, guided meditations, and step-by-step flower arrangements, Being with Flowers will show you how to appreciate the natural art of each flower to create the perfect arrangement.

Download or read book Favored Flowers written by Catherine Ziegler and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVCultural history of the flower trade in New York City and the transformation of the cut-flower industry into a global commodity system./div

Download or read book Bouquets with Personality written by Lucinda Rooney and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some flowers are team players, content to let their gently expressive hues and textures take a supporting role in an arrangement or bouquet. Others have a domineering, outgoing nature and always insist on being the center of attention. Recognizing flowers’ differing personalities—and blending the meek and the bold together in unusual, romantic, and harmonious ways—is at the heart of Lucinda Rooney’s floral philosophy. In Bouquets with Personality, Rooney divulges her secrets: the materials and tools she’s most fond of using, her design influences, her theory of color, and, most important, her insightful “psychology” of the botanical realm. It’s that in-depth understanding of how flowers and plants convey emotion that makes this book such an informative and inspirational resource for beginning flower-arrangers, seasoned professionals, and anyone who just loves flowers. The pages are graced, throughout, by Mick Hales’ lovely photos of both individual flowers and completed bouquets.

Download or read book The Posy Book Garden Inspired Bouquets That Tell a Story written by Teresa H. Sabankaya and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Like a favorite recipe, a posy is meant to be savored and shared. Try it yourself, and … welcome a bit of floral enchantment into your life.” —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist Inspired by the Victorian-era language of flowers, a posy is a small, round bouquet of flowers, herbs, and plants meant to convey a message, such as dahlias for gratitude, sunflowers for adoration, or thyme for bravery. These floral poems have become Teresa Sabankaya’s signature. Brides want them for their weddings, but a posy is a lovely gift any time of year, and one that readers can easily put together from their garden or with blooms from their local florist. In The Posy Book, Sabankaya shares step-by-step instructions, floral recipes for more than 20 posies, and ideas for seasonal variations. A modern floral dictionary, with 12 original paintings by celebrated illustrator Maryjo Koch, will help readers craft their own posies filled with personal meaning.

Download or read book The Floral Offering a Token of Friendship Edited by F S Osgood Illustrated with Ten Beautiful Bouquets of Flowers Elegantly Coloured After Nature by I Ackerman written by Frances Sargent OSGOOD and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beautiful Democracy written by Russ Castronovo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, “I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club.” Riis was not alone in his belief that beauty could tame urban chaos, but are aesthetic experiences always a social good? Could aesthetics also inspire violent crime, working-class unrest, and racial murder? To answer these questions, Russ Castronovo turns to those who debated claims that art could democratize culture—civic reformers, anarchists, novelists, civil rights activists, and college professors—to reveal that beauty provides unexpected occasions for radical, even revolutionary, political thinking. Beautiful Democracy explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics from a century ago along with riots, acts of domestic terrorism, magic lantern exhibitions, and other public spectacles. Philosophical aesthetics, realist novels, urban photography, and black periodicals, Castronovo argues, inspired and instigated all sorts of collective social endeavors, from the progressive nature of tenement reform to the horrors of lynching. Discussing Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, Charlie Chaplin, William Dean Howells, and Riis as aesthetic theorists in the company of Kant and Schiller, Beautiful Democracy ultimately suggests that the distance separating academic thinking and popular wisdom about social transformation is narrower than we generally suppose.

Download or read book The Book of Fresh Flowers written by Malcolm Hillier and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealth of inspirational arrangements for many indoor settings and special occasions.

Download or read book The Happy Flower Day Project Free Bouquets for People Who Need a Day Brightener written by Patricia C. Gallagher and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Happy Flower Day Project Patricia Gallagher delivers the gift of free surprise bouquets. More than 28,000 of them! "The Happy Flower Day Project" was born when she approached a specialty supermarket. She asked what they do with their day-old flowers. She offered to pick them up and take them to hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, shelters, recovery houses and anywhere that people need the healing energy of a free bouquet of beautiful petals and blooms. On her daily rounds, she delivers them to anyone who seems to need cheering up. She even catches people at bus stops, train stations and parking lots. Tens of thousands of bouquets later, she cheerfully says, "I am addicted to the happiness I feel when I give away the bouquets." Blooming smiles is her daily mission! For Patricia, every day is a happy flower day because she is the Flower Lady! Patricia C. Gallagher BA, MBA Box 561, Worcester, PA 19490 www.happyflowerday.com Patricia welcomes interviews and speaking engagements.

Download or read book Paper Blossoms Butterflies Birds written by Ray Marshall and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creator of the bestselling Paper Blossoms delivers more extraordinary flowers for the table. From a butterfly garden to a hummingbird's arbor, a branch of orchids to a vase of tulips, these four new breathtaking pop-up centerpieces brighten any table and fill any room with color and lasting beauty.

Download or read book Beautiful Monster written by Miles Borrero and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking, exquisitely crafted memoir about a trans person’s singular journey through breaching the boundaries of gender—across generations, cultures and borders—to become his truest, most authentic self. Nearing the age of forty, with an entire life already lived as a woman—half in Colombia, half in the US—Miles Borrero comes face to face with his father’s impending death. Suddenly realizing that he has been stalling his transition for fear of losing his family’s love, this moment catalyzes Miles’s determination to be fully known as his father’s son before it is too late. In Beautiful Monster, Miles chronicles his unusual childhood, by turns riveting and hilarious, in ’80s and ’90s Colombia during the Pablo Escobar years, as well as his move to Salt Lake City to pursue acting and the winding trajectory that eventually lands him in the New York City yoga scene. Within these very different cultures, the realities of being queer and trans echo poignantly through the triumphs, heartbreaks, family dynamics, spiritual pursuits, and relationships that propel Miles along his path. Sublimely nuanced and written in ravishing prose that is as unique and irresistible as its subject, Beautiful Monster is one person’s story of navigating the pressures to perform femininity while becoming a gender outlaw. Brimming with wonder, humor, and mythos, entertaining and enlightening in equal measure, this book offers a compelling case for embracing one’s true nature.

Download or read book Start Your Own Free and Fun Happy Flower Day Project in Your Community written by Patricia C. Gallagher and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOW TO COLLECT HUNDREDS/THOUSANDS OF DAY-OLD BEAUTIFUL BOUQUETS FROM GROCERY STORES, FLORISTS, SPECIALTY MARKETS, FLORAL DISTRIBUTORS, AND PASS THEM OUT TO PEOPLE IN HOSPITALS, NURSING HOMES, SHELTERS, RECOVERY HOUSES, HOSPICES......THE GIFT OF FREE FLOWERS...ALL DONATED. Patricia Gallagher spreads joy to people who need it most. And you can sprout joy in your own community, alone or with the help of volunteers. Using lively stories from her own experiences as "The Flower lady." she tells you how to: 1. make arrangements to pick up free donations of day-old bouquets that Trader Joe's, COstco, Whole Foods, florists and grocery stores would normally discard 2. obtain flower arrangements that would normally go to waste after weddings, corporate events and parties 3. deliver "scent-sational" floral bouquets to residents, staff and patients at nursing homes, hospices and hospitals 4. have fun, find your purpose, feel good, and "Flower Smiles Forward" with re-purposed petals and blooms Patricia C. Gallagher welcomes interviews, speaking engagements and consultations. www.patriciausa.com

Download or read book Crafting Meaningful Funeral Rituals written by Jeltje Gordon-Lennox and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funerals are among the most important life events in Western society, and fashioning a personalized ceremony for yourself or for a loved one is often the most meaningful way to celebrate the life of the deceased. For those wanting non-religious or secular funeral ceremonies, this step-by-step guide begins by identifying what you want from the funeral and showing how you can make it happen. With sections on society's views of mortality, our need for rituals and crafting the actual ceremony, this guide provides the tools and philosophy to understand, plan and tailor a funeral for individuals. Includes all the tools necessary for the creation of a ceremony, such as a Ritual Profiles, checklists, and many other handy resources.

Download or read book The Joy of Scrapbooking written by Lisa Bearnson and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy of Scrapbooking, -All-new content expands and updates the 1998 classic. Perfect for beginners and inspiring for experienced croppers.