Early Autumn

Early Autumn

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Autumn is a busy time in the flower farm.  There are many proteas that flower over autumn and winter, and the cooler weather also brings a chance for clearing away the excess growth of summer.  There are so many weeds!  But I love the beginning of the cooler weather.  It seems like the plants are invigorated again after being a bit tired and weary at the end of summer.

Protea Pink Ice,  a cut flower industry staple, is absolutely sparkling at this time of year.  Beautiful clear pink flowers with icy white tips and clean, clear foliage are bursting out all over the bushes.  If you're buying these flowers, here is a tip - pick ones that are not quite fully open.  You'll get a much longer vase life.  Most people go for the really big, open flowers, but these are just at the end of their vase life and will quickly discolour and collapse.

Late summer and early autumn also brings out my favourite flower that we grow here at Swallows Nest Farm. Its called Brunia Albiflora.  Its not technically a protea, but it is native to South Africa and is a spectacular, sought after cut flower with beautiful long strait stems topped with stunning glowing silver balls of tightly packed flower buds.  Its very architectural and looks fabulous en masse, or as an accent in a mixed arrangement.

Brunia Albiflora is not a plant you'll find at your local nursery.  They are quite difficult to propagate and as a result its difficult to come by these plants, even as a grower.  I was very excited last year when we managed to get hold of some plants from Victoria and so we have dramatically increased our future production of these rare and beautiful flowers.  I can't wait!

Brunia's silvery balls will begin to burst into tiny rings of flowers at this time of the year.  Each ball will begin flowering in a ring around the outer edge of the ball and slowly, the flowers will open inwards until the whole ball is covered in tiny flowers.  Some people prefer the plant before the flower comes out, others like it both ways.

I always like to have some of the current season's flowers on my windowsill in the kitchen, as a reminder of whats going on outside.  I could tell you I'm doing experiments in vase-life,  but really I'm just enjoying the produce!

Whatever you do, if you are lucky enough to come by some of these flowers, don't throw them out when they are past their best.  They make spectacular dried flowers and keep for years.  You don't need to do anything fancy with them.  Just take them outside and strip off the tiny needle-like leaves so the stalks don't shed.  Then they are good to go in a vase again for a dried flower arrangement.

Selecting Your Wedding Flowers

Selecting Your Wedding Flowers

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Bouquets are as necessary to a wedding because the bride's stunning gown, the completely embellished cake and also the personally created rings. When selecting bouquets for the wedding you need to consider into account what period you're in also as make sure to be constant all through the various components of the wedding that need bouquets - ensuring the bouquets enhance every other also because the bride and groom's outfits. Even though some partners select to go daring and loud with regards to wedding flowers, most nonetheless choose for your sophisticated and conventional white.

Prior to you make the large choice it is usually great to inquire your self which kind of bride you're. Are you currently searching for vivid colours for the wedding flowers, or does one desire a much more delicate, traditional appear with white roses or lilies? Amongst the highest 5 hottest wedding flowers globally you will discover roses, tulips, lilies, hydrangeas and peonies. What is fantastic about roses and lilies particularly is the fact that they're accessible all yr, which means you do not need to be worried about in what period your wedding is using location.

Herewith some suggestions with regards to the 5 most significant components of the wedding exactly where you will intend to make using bouquets - specifically the wedding bouquet, the wedding flowers inside your hair, the wedding ceremony bouquets, the wedding reception bouquets and also the wedding cake bouquets.

Wedding bouquet

Prior to considering bouquets it would be considered a great thought to decide on which kind of wedding bouquet you would like. The 3 hottest and well-known designs would be the typically formed posy bouquet, the teardrop-shaped shower/cascade bouquet and also the lengthy, slender arm bouquet - which rests in your arm.

In case your gown is white or cream you will not possess a issue as any colour bouquets will match. But when you're going the various route and sporting a coloured wedding gown, select exactly the same colour bouquets or select a complimentary colour - like red with green, blue with orange and purple with yellow - or just stick to white. Bridesmaids' bouquets ought to also adhere to exactly the same concept and enhance the bridesmaids' dresses. And also the flower woman will probably be carrying a basket or bucket of petals, so make sure to consider into account which colour petals you would like also. For your douleur members from the wedding celebration, utilize a solitary buttonhole flower that matches the primary kind of flower inside your wedding bouquet.

Wedding flowers inside your hair Most brides-to-be fight to decide on a hairstyle for his or her large day. It is an enormous choice that is frequently extremely difficult to create, simply because let us encounter it: you would like to appear your extremely, extremely greatest! Some brides ultimately choose to just maintain it all-natural and depart their hair down - maybe having a couple of free, passionate curls. Other people intend to make it much more formal and also have a fairly updo. You can get synthetic bouquets to create issues an entire great deal simpler, but in the finish from the day there is absolutely nothing just like the actual factor. Based on the type you select, you are able to have misplaced of little bouquets scattered all through a proper updo, otherwise you could choose for 1 big flower. Speak for your hair stylist about what's going to fit you and enhance your gown, and create a choice according to that. You are able to usually attempt various designs prior to you compromise around the 1 you prefer probably the most.

Wedding ceremony bouquets When the church exactly where you're getting your wedding ceremony is fairly large it is usually good to create a daring assertion and use big pedestal preparations positioned exactly where they'll be observed; in the entrance towards the church and near to the altar. You may also location solitary bouquets or little bouquets alongside the aisle on every row of seats. If you're possessing a little civil services, wedding ceremony bouquets can brighten up an in any other case dull space to some fantastic extent, so utilize your flower decorations to make a festive environment. Stick to bouquets you've selected for the bouquet so as to help keep it constant and complimentary.

Wedding reception bouquets An excellent suggestion for all those attempting to stay to some particular spending budget would be to re-use the pedestal preparations in the ceremony in the wedding reception. This implies you'll only possess the wedding desk bouquets to deal with. You will require an arrangement for your bridal desk also as centerpieces for all of the other tables. The bridal desk is typically embellished having a big 'long and low' arrangement within the middle before the bride and groom. Another desk centerpieces frequently arranged the mood for your wedding reception and may not stop visitors viewing every other and speaking with every other, so select some thing truly brief or truly tall - exactly where the flower motion is higher up.

Wedding cake bouquets With regards to wedding cake bouquets you'll first of all need to determine whether or not you would like actual or synthetic bouquets in your cake. The edible types are usually well-liked, so most partners go along with this. You are able to then settle on which type you would like. And when you do not want bouquets around the cake by itself, you are able to have flower decorations around the cake desk or just a couple of petals strewn about around the desk.

It is usually difficult to determine which kind of wedding cake you would like as you will find numerous choices accessible. But when you are heading the standard route, a white cake with dainty, fragile marzipan bouquets is usually a winner. In the event you possess a colour scheme for all of your other wedding flowers, attempt to stay to it. But when you're feeling like becoming various, then select it! What ever your option, make certain the cake is decadent and deliciously irresistible.

These wedding flowers suggestions ought to assist you to around the method to creating choices for what to make use of in your large day. Have a good time!

Dumb blonde tanpa tetek.

Dumb blonde tanpa tetek.

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Baru sahaja pulang dari kantor, aka firma guaman olok-olok. Homaigod, dah berminggu-minggu berkobar-kobar nak tidur lewat nak habiskan baca buku lapan juta muka surat. Seriously buku sebiji-sebiji berat beribu kilo lepas tu setaip kali promise dengan diri sendiri cakap,

"Mother f, hari ni  saya akan buka buku dan baca, buat nota dengan magic kaler warna warni aidilfitri, lepas tu kena hafal semua kejadah case. Akhir sekali workout, agar perut keras kekar."

Balik je terus tidur, lepas tu hari ahad terus bagi menebus diri, berjanji pada diri sendiri agar memastikan aku tidak menjadi dumb blonde tanpa tetek. Bila masuk, duduk, susun kertas, terus kacau orang.

Scan muka anak orang, guna printer + scanner Canon.

Mampu?

Fanna, selamat hari beranak.

Fanna, selamat hari beranak.

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Selamat hari jadi ke 23 fanna. Macam di text semalam, kita dah kenal 3 tahun lebih dah. Dah puas bergaduh, gelak ketawa, ronggeng bersama. Teringat zaman muda-muda part 1, waktu tu dekat kelas CTU, kelas agama, dia duduk dekat tepi sekali, bila pandang dia terus dalam hati cakap,

"Homaigod, puteri impian. homaigod homaigod. She is so mak datins, dahlah lawa pakai tudung pin sampai ke atas kepala"

Lepas tu, aku tak ingat detail, yang tahu dia dalam kumpulan aku. Dia nak ambil hati kita, dia baked cake coklat, lepas tu paksa kita makan. Sebagai penyedut hampagas aku makan je tanpa was-was. I like her alot, she is f fun, as a friend dan sebagai musuh lima saat.

Waktu kami practical dekat Sesyen court, dia tidak gentar pada tohmahan, dia suka je layan kerja-kerja bodoh aku. contohnya, dalam ekshibit 1,

Kita orang berdua selalu battle lengan siapa yang bye-bye paling laju. Lepas tu dia selalu ajar aku perkataan baru, contohnya 'soing' , "hellow - hellow" sambil pegang lipatan lelamaks perut".

Walaupun dia cantik, dia tak kisah kawan dengan peti ais dua pintu. Yang penting kenapa muka aku macam minta kaki dalam gambar atas ni?

Whatever pun, I just want to tell you farhana, every moment we all spent together, including the anak ikans and betinas garih was special to me, dan bersyukur sangat kenal anda semua. Walaupun kita ni selalu dibenci masyarakat, sebab aku dan kau adalah speaker masjid Shah Alam, tapi kita kekal unggul, tidak gentar kepada osteoporosis dan obesiti. Aku rasa plan kita nak slim, kurus dah berkali-kali di renew every year dan kita juga tetap unggul sebagai pipi tumpah dan tetek ganyut, thats what I like to friend with you.

Happy birthday farhana, semoga kecina bukitan aku semakin unggul di masa hadapan, dan semoga muka kau esok bangun ala Angelina Jolie.

Tabah walau di hina.

Yang benar,
Almari dua pintu

Drop Wedding Flowers

Drop Wedding Flowers

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An extended pathway strewn with golden yellow leaves. Foliage mirroring the colour from the environment sunlight. A chill within the air complemented from the warmth of the mellowed sunlight. Pictures and sights which you imagine, when you believe of the wedding...Nicely, then you definitely are most likely certainly one of these brides to become, whose wedding ceremony is within the drop period. But are you currently fretting more than small particulars just like the wedding flowers? Drop wedding flowers, although a difficult choice to create, can enthrall with their vividness and vivacity.

Kinds of Drop Wedding Flowers

In the event you despise the array of synthetic bouquets that appear to become the staple flower arrangement at most wedding events, you have to know which drop bouquets could be a component of the bridal entourage in your big day.

Helenium: Popularly referred to as Helen's flower, the flower's colour ranges from yellow to orange and it is in the exact same earthy palette of colours that dominate the autumn period. These bridal bouquets distinction spectacularly using the white bridal outfit.

Iris: It is the Greek phrase for rainbow. Iris is accessible inside a wide selection of colours, from pale yellow to white, purple, and cobalt blue.

Asters: The blue-colored Oct Skies, a kind of Aster, is pretty well-liked with drop brides. Accessible like a cluster, they might be mixed with other bouquets or perhaps Asters in pink, purple or lilac.

Stephanotis: A genuine white flower having a distinctive form, that symbolizes foresight and great needs, it could be the right bouquet to get a bride who doesn't want every other colour to shadow her bridal assortiment.

Amaryllis: Vivid red and pink characterize these bouquets, that is a image of excellent luck and joy in marriage. That could be the main reason the Belladonna Lily or Bare Woman (because they are colloquially recognized) are wedding darlings.

Bird of Paradise: South African natives, the birds of paradise or crane bouquets bloom within the autumn months. They carefully resemble a brightly-colored bird in flight and may include colour for your celebrations.

If none of those bouquets appear to mesmerize you, you've other drop bouquets, just like the Statice, Star of Bethlehem, Gardenia, Dahlia, Freesia, Cotoneaster, Daphne, and also the Winter season Jasmine. In the event you are trying to find a much more conventional selection, you can choose for among the all yr bouquets like roses, lilies, orchids, or daisies.

Select Your Fleur

Educated concerning the drop bouquets which are accessible for the perusal but baffled due to the sheer quantity? Nicely, whilst the selection of the wedding flower is individual, there are many parameters that may be stored in thoughts.

A bride could select her flower based on the attribute the flower epitomizes. Asters really are a image of persistence and adore, baby's breath embody genuine coronary heart, birds of paradise stand for joyfulness, and carnations signify purity and deep adore. Each flower epitomizes a particular worth and also the option is yours. Bouquets may also be selected in accordance for your beginning thirty day period. In the event you really are a January child, then the flower for you personally could be carnations and snowdrops, and when you're a July born, then h2o lily could be the way in which to go. Your florist could manual you about your beginning flower.

It's simple to select bouquets for concept weddings. Delphiniums are ideal for an old-fashioned wedding. When the concept of the wedding is h2o, you can select blue-colored bouquets like oct skies and when it is a tropical concept, then birds of paradise could be the right accompaniment.

Floral-arrange

Drop wedding flower arrangement could be a nightmare otherwise contrasted completely using the autumn environment. The bouquets need to enhance the period and also the wedding, rather than over-emphasize it. For the wedding preparations, you can mix two in a different way textured bouquets, for instance you can mix cluster of baby's breath using the birds of paradise, or vividly-colored snapdragons with stephanotis.

The may be around the foundation of colour mixtures like auburn, burgundy, red, orange and yellow. You can also include non-floral accompaniments for your bouquet and desk items. Some well-liked non-floral choices utilized are eucalyptus, that is favored for its deep colour and distinctive aroma, the weed, 'Crown of Rays' Goldenrod, a native North American wildflower known as 'Fascination', Russian sage, English Ivy and Green Hypericum.

Drop wedding flowers certainly provides towards the elegance from the day, whenever you could be at your resplendent greatest. The recollections from the day will final a life time and also the suitable option of drop bouquets provides to those recollections.

Juling

Juling

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Kata diri sendiri, "walau penat nak mati, tetap kekal gorgeous". Serious muka aku makin pasir jerlus ketibaj (rujuk entry sebelum) sekarang, dulu zaman muda-muda bersinar-sinar je masuk kelas, dah siap handsome-handsome dekat rumah, sampai tempat parking terus runway ala Paris fashion week sampai kelas. Now? sampaikan salam je lah, dahlah sampai pukul 8.22 a.m, lepas tu lari pergi punch card, ketiak basah-basah, wax rambut sampai ke kening, zip tak tutup, serious disaster.

so what happened today? aku makan macam tong dram again. Serious memang confirm aku akan bayar puasa nazar aku bila umur 48 tahun. Sekarang nafsu makan aku membuak-buak gila, bila pergi Mydin mart dekat tingkat bawah, terus buat sale sendiri, borong semua makanan, lepas tu terus cakap dalam hati,

"OK, makanan ni boleh tahan sampai lunch, so aku akan makan dengan jimat agar boleh alas perut (melantak secara ekstrem) sampai ke petang, menjelang kelas mayat dan seks nanti"

Tinggal kenangan kot, bila sampai depan kelas tinggal plastik je, lepas tu jeling plastik kawan sebelah, buat muka kesian minta Timtam dia, sebab dia kata kalau makan Timtam nanti bontot macam Kim Kardashian, sebab Kim K suka makan tu, Shengo beli untuk dia.  No wonder Timtam dekat Mydin Mart habis sebab semua nak bontot sebesar perodua kenari. Tapi yang aku tengok semua bontot flat je, kalau ada yang besar pun sebesar alam fana kot. Aku nak bontot besar juga, boleh tidur jadikan bantal.

By the way, kepada peminat setia Mydin mart, beware akan mamat keti (read : ke-ty) or ketiak. Seriously hari ni bila masuk bau ketiak, lepas tu terus sumbat muka dalam peti ais dan bernafas seperti biasa, takkanlah budak-budak practical yang malu-malu nak ambil customer tu punya ketiak, muka nur kasih je, sesuai kot kalau duduk bersimpuh sambil nyanyi lagu, Songket nyanyian Saloma.




Kejap, aku sepatutnya sediakan gambar untuk kelas forensik aku, dia kata dia nak gambar muka kami untuk assesment, so di kata snap to impress, gambar biar fokus dan meriah yang penting photogenic. Dalam otak terus terpancar gambar,

Fokus, fokus dan fokus, sekali bila ambil gambar,

sekali julings lahkan, lepas tu kawan baik aku terus cakap,

"rizal mata you juls, boleh jadi penunjuk kiblat lah, satu kebarat satu ke timur"

OK, sad. bye.