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hello! + flowers from the garden

Sorry, it’s been pretty quiet here in Design Folder for the past weeks. Work has been so overwhelming lately. To make up for our absence, we’re sharing with you some eye candies from our Tagaytay trip three weekends ago and pick up where we left off.

In our last post, I mentioned that we wanted to have a nicely done table for one of our meals during our vacation. Guess what? Didn’t happen. However, the flowers in our hosts’ garden were irresistible, so before we left, we managed to make a quick flower arrangement using the flowers and colorful leaves around.

Based on the plants there, Lilli and I decided on a vibrant yellow, pink and purple color scheme. We don’t know the names of these flowers/plants but I’m sure you can recognize many of them because they’re quite common.

For our vase, we used the empty jar of the tomato sauce that we used for our ravioli dish the day before. After removing the label, we found out that it was actually a mason jar. This gave our arrangement a sort of vintage twist.

When putting a variety of flowers together in a vase, one easy trick to get that perfectly imperfect look is to group like flowers and leaves together. This will give your arrangement some sort of order without making it look too structured.

For the final setup, Ana suggested to include two of our favorite foodstuff from the trip: sparkling iced tea and pretzel crisps (really good with cream cheese!).

This impromptu photo shoot wouldn’t be possible without the help of our talented and ever reliable photographer friend Ian Santos!!! {thanks Ian for the lovely pictures } -ardel

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no flowers?

Then decorate with leaves!

In the photo above, a single leaf from the humble bird of paradise plant gives this bedside table a fresh tropical look.

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