Ikebana fun!

I found my friend and myself this fun little gathering for Ikebana (the Japanese art of flower arrangement, 華道), and This evening the style we are trying is called "Jiyuka (Freestyle, Free flower, 自由花), it is one style under the 池坊 School in the Ikebana.

This was our first tryout, and we were both very excited about it!

Notes from the class:

• The container is part of the arrangement
• Keep the lower lines on the higher end, not the lower end
• Arrange the flowers up and look spirited
• Set your arrangement in the same angle
• Things to keep in mind: point, line, area (mass), surface.
• You are allowed to use wire to support your arrangement

I also like what I found from this Ikebana club has sum up Jiyuka pretty well.

In Jiyuka:
Think about

• asymmetry
• gradations of colour, contrast, accent
• gradation of size

Styles
Naturalistic arrangements:

• material is used as found in nature, no artificial elements

Artistic / Designed arrangements:

• shaping, bending
• wiring
• stapling
• taping
• with or without artificial / decorative elements

The Look of Spring. 🌱🌾🌸💐#Ikebana #jiyuka #華道 #自由花 #池坊 #春的姿態

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Some like it hot, Some like Lindy Hop

My second article on the school publishing platform. For the whole article please visit here. 

Edelstoff Designmarkt (06-07. April.2013)

Here are some photos I took for the designmarkt that I went with my friend.

The place is at an old

To find out more about the event, you can read my friend's article can be found here.
Edelstoff Designmarkt website, and you can follow them on Facebook for future events.
 

The Zen of Hundertwasser

Here is some shameless self-promotion.

screenshot of my post on the school site.

My first published article on school website. Click here to read it in a PDF.

Or please visit this site here to read my article. (and like it too! :-) 

Thanks!

April update

I went out volunteer myself as a photographer for a classmate for her story today. But in return I felt like I am the one should be thankful to her. And although there are prices to pay for being out and about, but what I made really like hanging out with her today is that it reminds me to be a girl again. 30 something sometimes is a really funny issue at heart. To decide whether you are more like a woman or more like a girl, to react to things with a straight solemn mind or  sheepish silly giggling behind the lines. I miss 'the girl' sometimes, but also am eager to prove myself that I could be a genteel grown-up, a debonair, which I am probably not there yet. Ha.

 It is nice to be out and just doing some girly things again. Not as a couple, having to face chores in the house, task at school, etc.  It was just a good day out, albeit this “late fall-be-it –supposed-to-be-spring” cold weather.

(oh and I really hope there is a way for me to recover some her photos!! I just found out because the computer was trying to re-format the SD card and some of the photos that we took were gone. :-/)

Oh and of course there is some souvenir along the way.  I actually had a good chat with the lady who made it too.  (Of course, not all of them at once. Only that light yellow, green-ish one on my ring finger.)

Women in Arts.

so pretty!