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The Little Red Bouquet - Living in Bloom with J Schwanke
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J Schwanke and Shelley Irwin put together a little red bouquet!
J Schwanke and Shelley Irwin put together a little red bouquet!
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The Little Red Bouquet - Living in Bloom with J Schwanke
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J Schwanke and Shelley Irwin put together a little red bouquet!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(lively music) - And this theme is all about the power of red.
J Schwanke, you can't get any stronger than red.
- Right, right.
Most powerful color.
- Wow.
Why is that?
- Because it makes, you know, what the color red actually makes our blood pressure get higher, it makes our blood run faster.
So yeah, it it's also considered to be the sexiest color.
- Oh, well that's why I picked red.
- Right, exactly.
I love that.
So we're gonna make an arrangement today.
And I know that you told me that you wanted to know some easy tricks for making a cute little arrangements.
- Yes, easy and I guess precise quick and- - Exactly.
Exactly, exactly.
So I have a little selection of flowers.
We have some spray roses, we have carnations, we have dianthus, and we have hypericum.
And what we're gonna do with these, Shelly, is you've got your selection there.
- Okay, so I've got my pile and you have yours.
- Little bunch of eriostemma is what this is called.
It's beautiful.
We're gonna start by putting that in our hand.
- Right hand, all right.
- And then we're gonna just start adding flowers and making a little bouquet in our hand with those flowers.
- Do I need to worry about trimming or anything at this point?
- You don't, you don't, you don't.
You're just gonna be placing them in your hand in a way that makes you happy.
- What is it I'm smelling?
- You're smelling the eriostemma.
Which is the foliage that we're using.
It's called eriostemma.
- Is there a trick to this?
Does this need to be in the behind or in front?
- I think it needs to be towards the top.
- Okay.
All right.
Towards the Top.
- So maybe in the center.
And so what I do many times is as I make this, I turn it around in my hand.
- Okay.
Well you've done this a couple times.
- I have done it a couple times and so have you.
- Okay, yeah, I have.
Thanks to you, so I should be an expert.
- You are.
There's nothing more pleasurable for me than making a flower arrangement with a friend.
- Yes.
Aren't flowers good for the soul?
- Absolute, just like friends.
Just like friends.
Good for the soul.
And what they do is they make us feel happier.
They make us feel less depressed.
Look at you.
- Finishing up.
- You're doing a great job.
It's wonderful.
- I have the J Schwanke talent going on.
- Okay.
So see, you have a little bouquet like that.
Are you happy with it?
- I'm very happy.
- Okay.
So now what we're gonna do is we have, this is called craft covered wire.
You have a little bit over on your side over there, right?
- Oh, goodness gracious.
Okay.
- We're gonna lay a piece of that under our thumb.
- Oh, this is where it gets hard.
- No.
- Don't look at it that way, Right?
- Right, don't look at it that way.
Okay.
And then we're gonna wrap this around right where our hand was.
- [Shelley] I'm left-handed.
- That's okay.
So you're gonna tie it tight.
- I got my finger in it.
- Okay.
- Okay, okay.
Here we go.
Tie it tight, - Right.
- Oh, nice.
- And we're gonna bind it.
We're just gonna twist it when we get it to that spot.
- Right.
I'm glad you're here to do the final details.
- You doing great, my dear.
You're awesome.
- Right.
Thank you, positive feedback does help.
- Yes.
Okay.
So then take that piece and twist it with that one like a bread twisty.
- Twist that one, okay.
It says twist me.
Okay.
Perfect it's good, okay.
- Okay.
Now see?
We each have a bouquet.
We want our bouquet to sit on top of that, those flowers to sit on top of the edge of our bouquet, right?
- Right.
- So you see where you're gonna...
I'm gonna cut mine here.
- Oh, we're cutting, okay.
- You are gonna cut yours about here.
- It looks silly if it wasn't cut.
(J Schwanke laughing) - But it would be fun, right?
- Yes.
Okay.
- And we're gonna use our bypass cutter.
- You gave me red.
- I gave you a red one because you're powerful.
You're powerful.
You're one of the most powerful women I know.
- Well, there's hashtag more to do.
So here we go.
Okay.
So then, but I bet I need to trim even more.
- [J Schwanke] See, you do.
Very good that you identified that.
- We learn by mistakes.
- Take it up to about there.
- Okay, watch finger.
You ever lost a finger?
- No, all 10 are here.
- You signed the contract though, that's for sure.
If I lose a finger, they grow back.
Okay, I am gonna see where we.
(gasps) - See?
- I wanna be a J Schwanke when I grow up.
Oh, this is actually pretty nice.
- I'm telling you, right?
And if you wanted to come back in and add a couple more flowers, you could do that too.
Whatever you wanna do.
Shelley, you're a star and you're living in Bloom.
That's what we're doing.
- Thank you, J.
- You're welcome.
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