On Thanksgiving morning I arrived at mothers house, with pie, cookies, homemade cranberry jelly, grandma Heider’s blue cheese ball, and a pumpkin cake. I didn’t make a floral centerpiece because quite honestly I just figured nobody cared like I do about flowers. The first thing mother said was, “where is my Thanksgiving centerpiece?” Back to my house I went, completely unsure of what I could throw together. Thankfully I had tuber roses, and amaretto roses from last weekend and I knew I would begin there. I also knew I could gather some nandina foliage, and my hydrangea leaves are an amazing burgundy right now. As I started the design I remembered the apples from one of our Oct 15th weddings the leftover fruit has been in a sealed container in the cooler ever since.  We also had rose hips, privet berry, odd pieces of ornamental grasses and 4 stems of orange spray roses. One last miracle leftover in the studio was raununculus. I mistakenly received red not orange ranunculus last weekend, and white not light pink ranunculus, so we had ranunculus everywhere. This piece is luscious!!!

I can’t get over how pretty this design is and every single flower is at least 8 days old. Thank goodness for the cooler!!

Hope you had a happy turkey day and I hope you are enjoying this time with your family!! We are off to grandmas house for a big breakfast!!