etsy and me

Hi everybody, I didn't post for a long long time.......had been no good times for me.......hope all of you are fine.....
today, let me start again with fresh energy and a positive spirit, or at least the try of fresh energy and positive spirit;)......
my etsy shop got some new goods, please take a look at these paper craft ornaments:

 

www.etsy.com/shop/naturalinjapan

there are so many ways to use the paper ornaments: we use them in flower arrangements to add depth and charme to bouquets and arrangements, and we also tried to make some accessories with them. They are easy to pierce and light in weight and worked out nicely:

Heiwa Bazaar

in our school here in Japan we had a bazaar today. Saw so many beautiful things! Wonderful teamwork of all the mums here in Chigasaki.

soothing my eyes and my heart.......

The Winter Tour

The WINTER TOUR is up on my homepage:
http://www.gabrielekubo.com/_/winter_tour_2012.html

please take a look! Highlight is a lesson at a very special place: a flower designers place, Mr. Strauss, who built in the garden and in the green houses various locations for photoshootings. Wonderful plants and decoration materials are found there. Mr. Strauss occupies 7 florist teams who are constantly working on new trends and are arranging flowers and plants in the most beautiful ways. They are selling pictures on a professional level to magazines all over the world and are working now on the pictures for Christmas 2013. A lot to look on for us! We will get a lesson from a Weihenstephan trained flower designer and our workpiece will be photographed in a beautiful setting. Each member will get his own disc with his design photographed by a professional photographer right there!

our summer tour

our summer tour ended already in August and I did not put pictures up here.....had been so busy, sorry for that. Please, take a look into my facebook page https://www.facebook.com/gabriele.kubo, there you can see all pictures, newspaper cuts etc. It was a great great time, weather had been fine through the whole week, we saw castles, museums, beergardens, flowers and met nice people everywhere, I was so happy  to be with everybody. Let me show you some pictures!

and we appeared in the local newspaper!

our summer tour

Our tour to Germany will take part! I am so glad to welcome 8 members from Japan, who will follow me through my home country. From the 21st of July, please watch us here, we will try to set up pictures for you every day! I will leave this Friday in advance to prepare everything well.

Summer Tour

we got our plans together and can present now the outlines for a tour to South Germany in July 2012.

we will visit 2 professional flower exhibitions and 4 flower shops of Weihenstephan Master Florists, we will enjoy 2 lessons, one about grasses, one with herbs, we will visit 3 private homes of friends of mine, we will ride on an ox chariot through hop fields, we visit Neuschwanstein Castle and of course we will drink beer in a real beergarden. Accomodation is in 2 enjoyable hotels, one is built with Feng Shui principles, one is in the middle of meadows and with a view into the Alpes. We can recreate bodies and souls there.
See more at www.gabrielekubo.com, just click on TOUR 2012 or on ツアー２０１２、 depending on your language.

These were our springtime bouquets!

Springtime Flowers

Next week on Monday 23rd, there will be the next flower lesson at Serendipity Cafe. We will tie a Springtime Bouquet in an allround style. I will show you a special technique to bind something like a round arrangement all in your hand. Like always, a free drink is included and we finish at 12 o' clock ( after starting at 10 a.m.), just in time to get a nice lunch at Serendipity. Their bagels are just so delicious! Give us a call at 0467-87-0987 to get your reservation for Monday. Looking forward to see you!

Easter Flowers

and here is the arrangement:

it's made out of: Narcissus, because what is Easter without the smell of narcisses, Ranunculus, because they ressemble so much to eggs, Lupinus, for to catch up with the reddish baket, small Lysianthus in green to give that feeling of a meadow, of fresh young green, and lilac because Easter is a garden with a lilac bush. Adding to these flowers you find a green leaves image out of felt, a wreath made of young onions and two eggshells hanging from the handle of the basket. Light orange Sisal fibers lighten up the base and give a nest feeling. That was our Easter Arrangement at Serendipity Cafe.

Happy Easter to everybody!

Easter Flowers

Time keeps on running, Easter is around the corner and I am preparing all those nests and coloured eggs. It is on a very short range, but I decided to give a small Easter Lesson with fresh flowers here in Chigasaki. It will take place already on the coming Saturday, 7th of April. Venue is the beautiful Serendipity Cafe. Lesson is limited to 10 people. We start at 10:00 am and finish at 12:00, so just in time to take a lovely lunch at Serendipity if you wish so. Costs are ¥4500, including a free drink. We will have some Easter goods, too, in the cafe. Give us a call under  0467-87-0987 (Hana-Ami) until Thursday evening, 5th of April . Or let me know here.

winter wonder land

greatest blue sky, deep fresh snow and a best friend to climb up mountains: life cant be better. Thanks, Lydia! Love ya! And the snow. Wanted to show it to my dearest kids but that might take a little bit more time and preparation, but I promise both of you: we will be there together the next time! as soon as I fighted down what drags me right now, I will be there with both of you in exactly this snow! Thought of you, my dearest kids, all the time.  Love ya, too!