{"id":14353,"date":"2026-06-10T21:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=14353"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:47:35","slug":"peony-ikebana-feat-forest-decor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/peony-ikebana-feat-forest-decor\/","title":{"rendered":"Peony Ikebana feat. Forest Decor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/forest-wood-ikebana-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14351 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/forest-wood-ikebana-1-743x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"743\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/forest-wood-ikebana-1-743x1024.jpg 743w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/forest-wood-ikebana-1-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/forest-wood-ikebana-1-1114x1536.jpg 1114w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/forest-wood-ikebana-1-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/forest-wood-ikebana-1.jpg 1451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/a>When <a href=\"https:\/\/forest-decor.com\/\">Forest Decor<\/a> reached out to me about a collaboration, I admit I was a bit stumped (pun absolutely intended). Their products are lovely, but not exactly in my realm of expertise. I was about to thank them politely for the offer but refuse when I saw this <a href=\"https:\/\/forest-decor.com\/product\/live-edge-olive-wood-candle-holder-for-3-tealight-candles\/\">raw edge three-candle holder<\/a> and my brain reimagined it as a vessel for ikebana with the help of this set of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4e6zos4\">three tiny kenzan<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>My original intention was doing a much more structured arrangement with one flower in each hole, in an ascending diagonal, but then I found these gorgeous, blousy, riotous peonies and knew that order and rigidity were not the way to go. In the end the uneven natural chaos of the flowers is much more complimentary to the raw edge of the olive-wood used for the holder, and I&#8217;m very happy I &#8220;listened&#8221; to the flowers instead of fighting nature and forcing the whole ikebana into something it didn&#8217;t want to be.<\/p>\n<p>The only issue (such as it is) with using this gorgeous piece as a vessel is that the holes are very tiny and don&#8217;t hold much water, so it&#8217;s a very ephemeral arrangement. But peonies are very ephemeral blooms, so it all worked out in the end.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"topnote\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"note\">I received this item from the retailer or manufacturer for honest review purposes.<\/span><span class=\"note\">This post contains affiliate link(s). If you choose to purchase, I receive a small rebate or commission which goes to the continued maintenance of this site.<\/span><span class=\"note\">If you have a topically appropriate\u00a0craft, product, or service you would like me to review, <a href=\"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">please contact me<\/a>.<\/span><span class=\"botnote\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Forest Decor reached out to me about a collaboration, I admit I was a bit stumped (pun absolutely intended). Their products are lovely, but not exactly in my realm of expertise. I was about to thank them politely for the offer but refuse when I saw this raw edge\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/peony-ikebana-feat-forest-decor\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1323,1379,545,448],"tags":[1324,489,254,1398,546,1399,342,13],"class_list":["post-14353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaborations","category-home-and-lifestyle","category-ikebana","category-reviews","tag-arrangement","tag-decor","tag-flower","tag-forest-wood","tag-ikebana","tag-olivewood","tag-peony","tag-pink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14353"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14359,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions\/14359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}