Sunday, October 23, 2011

New site, new blog!!

Hi there! We've moved! Please visit landishstudio.com and landishstudio.com/blog for all the latest Landish news. See you there!

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Baby Showers Bring Nice Flowers

Had the pleasure of working on the florals for a dear friend's baby shower!!! She is a flower enthusiast, and knows her stuff, so I had my work cut out for me. The rules were reds and purples, and ASTILBE!!! So here's what we got:





The suspects involved were: Delphinium, Dahlia, Stock, Anemone, Astilbe, Raspberry Branch, Bouvardia...and maybe one or two slipped by...gold star for anyone who finds the one that got away...

Monday, August 29, 2011

SF Flower Market and Berkeley adventures

Back from a whirlwind trip! Here are some snaps from my trip up North:


Prettiest doorway in all the land, at my friend's place in Berkeley...completely surrounded by Bougainvillea = my kind of place.


Adorable flower shop The Meadows near the Rockridge Bart stop


Off to the SF Flower Mart, which did not disappoint (even though I was there around 11am on a Saturday, which is like the dead of night for florists.) Here are some of my favorites from the market:


 I wanted to buy all the pomegranate branches, but I was strong and resisted.


Some mixed Celosia, just chilling. 

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And then this happened, and was as dreamy as I could've imagined:



El fin.

Monday, August 22, 2011

NoCal Sneakpeek

My very glamorous day job whisked me away to San Francisco for two weeks, hence the radio silence. Of course I found some flower time, here's a peek (better quality pics coming once I get back to LA). But the flowers here have me completely mesmerized:




Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Purple plotting

The last few weeks have been unusually...unusual. Here are some purple thoughts I've had recently:






And finally, and not quite as purple-y, some bicycles from Venice I've been meaning to share:


Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Musings on a balloon plant

Normal people, upon receiving a beautiful new pitcher courtesy of their awesome mom (thanks MAMA!), would probably fill it with garden roses, brew a cup of tea, and call it a day. I would have done the same*, had I not discovered these at the market. They stopped me dead in my tracks. So here's what happened instead:







* Full disclosure: when I say tea, I definitely mean a glass of wine.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Creations for a cause

Today I want to share some flowers with you that I made for an event hosted by the LA Network of Human Rights Watch last week. It was at the awesome Breezeway at the Barker Block building in Downtown. Such a gorgeous space! So here's what I came up with (with help from Miss N once again! Thank you!):




And here's a little look of the flowers in their home during the event:


Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Busy Bee

Waking up at 4:30 and trekking downtown to the flower market while the world is still asleep is no easy feat. But walking in and seeing all your flower friends is so energizing, it never ceases to amaze. Aside from the awesome people at the market (I'm lookin' at you Joe!), there are also flowers that take my breath away. Right now the Dahlias are freaking out, and I'm completely under their spell. Just look at this and try not to be transfixed:

Crazy, right?? And here's a better look at the arrangement this guy joined, made for one really special Bird's birthday:


And one more super exciting birthday I was psyched to help celebrate, that of a new little man who was just born to a very special friend:


I have a feeling the next post will be about Blushing Bride Protea (you can see it peeking out in there)...completely obsessed you guys. Completely.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Been away so long...

I had the immense honor of creating an arrangement for a very special lady's 90th (!!!!) Birthday!!!! I love this woman, and know she has a keen sense of style (she once told me to keep an eye on my MJ shoes 'cause she just might take them away from me), so coming up with the arrangement wasn't too hard. I just went for the best of the best:



I really hope AS liked her flowers. I had the best time making them for her! Lots more coming soon, stay tuned.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Flowers For Fantastic Friend's Fabulous Fotos

One of my dearest friends in the entire world held an exhibition of her beautiful photographs last week, and I had the great pleasure of creating some florals for the event. Here are a couple of snaps!



And the street-art that greeted us outside on our way out couldn't possibly be any more appropriate!!!



Saturday, June 4, 2011

More Farmer's Market fun

A wonderful new friend took me on a beautiful tour of the Santa Monica Farmer's Market on Wednesday. I was seriously in luck, because the girl might as well be the mayor of the market, she knows every stand and every vendor! As you might expect, I walked away with armloads of flowers...and some edibles I've been dying to try in arrangements:


My "workstation"


And the end result: that's a little experiment with garden roses, cornflowers, sweet peas, kale, and arugula blossoms. Yum! And the little white and yellow ones aren't camomile as originally thought, but Feverfew, which the vendor said is great for easing migraines.




The second arrangement was a height experiment*, which ended up looking like a trophy that Brooklyn won. Probably for being so awesome.

I'm going to leave you with one more garden rose shot, because I can't resist them!


* I'm trying to overcome my floral acrophobia (floracrophobia?!?)! It ain't easy people. 


Thursday, May 26, 2011

Farmer's Market Gold

I totally scored at the Hollywood Farmer's Market this past Sunday....while browsing, I saw the most beautiful Marigolds at a tiny stand...and scooped them up. But not before the lovely farmer womanning the stand told me these were Calendula, which have amazing anti-inflammatory properties....so good to know!

Here's a little beautiful science for you:



And my little golden stash:



 Who's coming with me on the next Farmer's Market trip??