Last week was a huge production week for our studio. So much so that I simply neglected to do my “in the cooler” post.  I also figured since it was Feb. you would not have been expecting it anyways, but oh boy, did we ever have a full cooler. In addition to our very full cooler, it was Myriams birthday. We celebrated by having a birthday party which was also like a reunion. Many of us have not seen each other since before Christmas. We also had the pleasure of dinning in a room decorated by Evan, who had taken time on Friday to bring some of his creations to life. This house is always hopping!!

This place is like the birthday house, it’s always someones birthday!! Which is awfully fun for the little Chapples.

While we were in the studio designing Evan created a frame that we can use to swag fabric across a room. It’s funny to see him enjoy creating. This is most certainly different than the role he had in the corporate world.

He also wanted to create a huge flower. One that could tower over a ballroom. I have heard him talking about these things but all of a sudden he had brought them to life.

We had to create 18 elevated designs. Each design is created in a flat tray called a lomey tray. Floral foam is wrapped in chicken wire and then taped to the tray. The chicken wire gives the oasis support, we were inserting hundreds of stems into this foam. The chicken wire keeps the foam from splitting in half.  The flat tray fits right on top of our beautiful glass vases.

This grid was created and each designer was given a copy. We had 18 low designs, and 18 elevated designs.  8 of the elevated designs were on larger tables so those tables were given 3 additional designs at the base of the elevated design.

As I mentioned our cooler was full, so full that I could not get inside.

Wait until you see what we did with all of these flowers!! Happy Monday!!!