Real holiday flowers...

I was just kidding on those flowers being holiday flowers last week.  Those were "autumn" flowers.  Still they were beautiful and looked great as of today, but my friends at United on 28th Street have put all the fall color flowers in the chiller for the week.  I wasn't even allowed to buy them! :) So here 'twas the week before Christmas as the night before I boarded a plane to California (on the plane now...)

More holiday flowers: never knew

First, I never thought about putting all these crazy flowers together.  Second, I really love these carnations.  Gasp.  Carnations.  Gasp again.  Ha. Fooled you, didn't I?  Pretty fab, huh? 

Third, these quince branches are spectacular, and while it's impossible to capture in a photo, they look so romantic and holiday-special with lights on them in my certain locales. I hope you encounter them somewhere in Tribeca over the next few weeks.  Speaking of which, if you need beautiful noble wreathes or non-Christmas, but holiday-esque arrangements for yourself or as a gift, give a hollar. I am on holiday myself Dec. 19th-26th, so would prefer knowing in advance, but where there is a will, there is a way, and CocoTribeca, will always find a way to deliver.

Festive holiday windows: subtle and elegant

Vestry Wines' windows (and interior) is decorated for the holidays. My friend Roy was quite worried about the concept of snow in the windows, but admitted today that "it worked." Tonight while taking photos, a neighbor's driver, hanging out in the Mercedes, gave me a thumbs up.  Made my night!

I will give a free arrangement to the first person to find the tie-ins to Vestry Wines' logo.

Holiday flowers that make me smile: something different

These remind me of holiday music. Right now, it's fun to sing along in the store, but in less than two weeks, we'll be wearing ear plugs...Feliz Navidad.  Here is my first take at holiday flowers in Tribeca. Honestly, I surprised myself with these rich colors.  I did some real "no-no's" in terms of mixing seasonal flowers, but hey, it seems to work.  I'm liking it.  I'm just posting my "wow" pictures now, as I'm off to dinner.  More commentary tomorrow.  Enjoy.  Coco.

A real after-thought that I am so in love with!

So beautiful!  It takes on a life of its own.  I had no idea it would become so fabulous.

And here we have such an odd mixture of seasonal flowers. Caribbean meets holly berries. Crazy, but it seems to work.

Connie's Flowers in Tribeca Today

As usual, I'm exhausted but have had such fun with these flowers. I went to 28th Street -- to my favorite guys, United -- yesterday, but my fresh gladiolas and lilys had barely opened even this morning, so I didn't start working with them until noon today. I always like it when someone, upon seeing one of my floral creations, says, "no one does anything like you do."  Of course that could be good or bad.  But I think my work is creative and fun, but is also warm and inviting.  See the arrangements from today. One was created for a champagne tasting hosted by Vestry Wines at John Allan's Club.  I'll write more tomorrow about the humour and hazards of floral work.

Leftover flowers

I have extra flowers from yesterday so I made up five little matching arrangements.  Now what to do with them?  I may have some very lucky neighbors.

Spring-like Flowers in November in Tribeca

I love how these Hawaiian ginger flowers blend in so beautifully with the colors of the store at Vestry Wines.  I think I "paired" them with the rose wines.

  

 

 A few bouquets that wound up morphing into something else...

See how different this bouquet is by simply adding a few orange thistles

So we went a bit stark at Estancia this week.  It's hard to capture in a photo however, but these are really detailed flowers and the stems are magnificent.  As Chris at the restaurant says, "They're sassy."