{"id":7710,"date":"2018-06-26T12:45:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T16:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=7710"},"modified":"2018-06-26T12:45:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T16:45:49","slug":"creamsicle-ikebana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/creamsicle-ikebana\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Creamsicle Ikebana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/peachy-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7690\" src=\"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/peachy-3-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/peachy-3-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/peachy-3-600x896.jpg 600w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/peachy-3-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/peachy-3-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/peachy-3.jpg 1071w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/a>During the summer, I really do try to work with flowers from the great outdoors but when I saw this marked-down bouquet at the grocery store I felt an overwhelming urge to rescue it. I realise that the flowers were dyed by tinting the water orange, but come on, they look like a creamsicle!<\/p>\n<p>The bouquet was a little past due and a fair number of the flowers were beyond salvaging, but I managed to rescue the large spider mum and the carnations which were what drew me to the bundle in the first place. I didn&#8217;t have a lot of length to play with so I focused on a small, tight, rounded shape with a little height for drama.<\/p>\n<p>The oranges and creamy peach tones got a bit lost against the backdrop but then I remembered I had this awesome shibori-like fabric which provides great contrast.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this might not be the most dramatic or stylish arrangement I&#8217;ve put together, but there&#8217;s something undeniably charming and happy about it, and we could all use a little more happiness in our lives right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the summer, I really do try to work with flowers from the great outdoors but when I saw this marked-down bouquet at the grocery store I felt an overwhelming urge to rescue it. I realise that the flowers were dyed by tinting the water orange, but come on, they\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/creamsicle-ikebana\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[545],"tags":[831,832,60,761,546,59,68,499,630],"class_list":["post-7710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ikebana","tag-carnation","tag-creamsicle","tag-flowers","tag-freeform","tag-ikebana","tag-kiku","tag-orange","tag-peach","tag-rose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710","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=7710"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7717,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710\/revisions\/7717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}