How to take care of a flower before you arrange for a longer vase life

I teach 生け花Ikebana;the Japanese art of flower arranging and the first thing I would like to teach is how to take care of flowers. If you take a little care of flowers, they will live a little longer, maybe much longer. When you have a bouquet, 1  See all flowers and greenery and  take t …

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Ikebana:the Japanese art of flower arranging was started as offering flowers for prayer

Ikebana;the Japanese art of flower arranging stated as offering flowers and it was a flower for prayer. A  priest of Chohoji, Zen temple tried to establish peace and express haromony in a vase. He tried to express hole universe in a single arrnagement. It’s so beautiful and it gathered a crowd in 1462 in Kyoto, Japan. It’s …

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My Special Day ! Let’s learn how to live your own life from Brian Tracy

Thank you again Brian! November 3 is special day for me. I got a letter and CD,GOALS! form Brian Tracy just 4 years ago. I wrote a letter to him and he replied!! Such a successful businesserson took a time for meI was so glad to find it, alomost jumping with joy and excitement! I had …

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Kimono booth was so much fun at Otsukimi Dallas!

Kimono booth was really fun and we were so happy to see people enjoying the demonstration and smile in kimono with smile on their faces. Otukimi, moonviewing was introduced from Chinas andonly upper class people enjoyed Otsukimi making poets over drinking sake. They saw the moon reflected on the water or surface of sake in the …

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It’s great experience to try Origamifor them and great pleasure to share Japanese art for us!

Last Sunday we, Motoko JapaneseCulture visited Stonebridge and did Origami experience. We had a young origamo master Taro Oikawa and her mother Meika. He learned origami form his grandmother first and form his mother and then himself. Just flat paper is made into a sclupture. You will give a piece of paper a life.Origami was already …

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