Christmas inspired Ikebana

Our Ikebana this week took a Christmas theme. And Eiko told us it was to be our own freestyle creation. Hmm, what to do?

This was Eiko's example - double beauty

We had green pine branches, white-spraypainted bamboo, deep red berries and red flowers to work with. The options seemed endless...

The white bamboo had some bling sprinkled on it!

Berries

Red flowers

The arrangement taking shape

The final arrangement had a wind-swept theme! Can you see it?

I had quite a bit of help from Eiko, who showed me how to bend the branches into shape (although some of them were naturally windswept - which inspired the piece in the first place!)

I think this freestyle arrangement has a really nice balance.

Until next Ikebana creation,

Monica