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Rittners School of Floral Design Rittners School Of Floral Design In Boston Presents... How To Make Any Vase Arrangement Into A Halloween Floral Design By Rittners Floral School www.floralschool.com! 1

Hi from Rittners Floral School in Boston. Everyone enjoys Halloween. It is a wonderful holiday for both adults and kids. Originally it was a very intense holiday. It marked the Celtic festival of Samhain, a time of the year in which it was believed that there was a portal from the world of the living to the world of the dead. The seriousness has moderated in present times. In past decades Halloween was considered a kids holiday, primarily centered around trick or treating... More recently adults have started to enjoy it as well for parties and socializing... Flowers and floral designs can really contribute to creating an atmosphere and setting for this holiday... Floral decorations can be created that fit the spirit of the holiday yet make one s home even more attractive... Yes there are some very specific arrangements that say Halloween. But there are also some very quick and easy tricks that you can use to turn just about any vase arrangement into a Halloween treat...we present some of those tricks here. At Rittners Floral School, we believe in teaching folks how to make floral designing quick and easy... This short ebook treat of floral art tricks is created with that in mind...enjoy!!!! Dr. Stephen Rittner Rittners Floral School,!!!!! www.floralschool.com! 2

Colors For a mild Halloween treatment, let s first consider the choice of colors for the arrangement. The use of fall colors, oranges, yellows, reds, etc. automatically makes this vase arrangement appropriate for this time of year... Obviously altering the colors of this design differently could also make it more seasonally appropriate for Christmas, spring, etc... The major point is that with the color palette illustrated in this photo, the design as shown here is quite appropriate for Halloween... www.floralschool.com! 3

! Halloween Creepy Crawlers!!!! Want to add an additional level of Halloween Fun?? Consider getting some of the various artificial Halloween bug accessories that are easily found in outlets during the fall season. Plastic/rubber spiders, and all kinds of gross but inexpensive toy creepy crawlers are easily found at a huge range of outlets from early fall right up to the holiday! These can be placed loosely on your florals for easy removal in case family members get grossed out... Or they can be secured with glue... As with all of our florals, do keep your Halloween floral designs away from small kids and pets... www.floralschool.com! 4

Here is a photo of the design, literally crawling with spiders... Cool for Halloween... Not a sight we would want to see the rest of the year--but it works so well for the holiday!!! www.floralschool.com! 5

But Wait... There s More!!! Cobwebs!!!! Here is an additional neat trick that you can use to make your vase arrangement perfect for Halloween... Let s take some of the artificial cobwebs that you can easily get at this time of the year... It looks almost like cotton, but needs to be stretched... Start on one side of the arrangement and gradually... www.floralschool.com! 6

Stretch the cobwebs, pulling the material over the face of the arrangement... www.floralschool.com! 7

The trick is to pull it thin enough so that you can see the florals underneath, but still have the feeling of authentic cobwebs...it is kind of a balancing act, but easily achieved... www.floralschool.com! 8

Here is a close up... We could leave the vase arrangement, just covered with cobwebs... www.floralschool.com! 9

On the other hand, we could combine the cobweb effect with the spiders to create something that definitely says Happy Halloween. www.floralschool.com! 10

At Rittners Floral School, we like to teach how to make lovely designs for your favorite boy or ghoul! (Sorry, just had to use that pun!) www.floralschool.com! 11

To Summarize: It s very easy to customize any vase arrangement for Halloween. 1. Fall Colors 2. Toy Creepy Crawlers 3. Cobwebs 4. Any Combination of the above. www.floralschool.com! 12

! About Rittners Floral School Rittners Floral School is one of the longest running and finest private floral design schools in North America. Located in the prestigious Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Rittners Floral School attracts students from all over North America and abroad by the excellence of its courses. Rittners makes use of the latest educational theory and technologies, to bring its students outstanding diploma programs in floral designing... Rittners Floral School specializes in floral education. Whether your goals are rest and relaxation, stress reduction, or vocational, you will really enjoy the various hands-on workshop floral art courses offered at Rittners Floral School.!!!!!!!!!!!! www.floralschool.com www.floralschool.com! 13

Environmental Impact Statement: Absolutely no spiders or their homes were harmed in the course of producing this ebook... You still reading this? You should be playing with some flowers to create Halloween florals!! Happy Halloween from all of us at Rittners Floral School, in Boston www.floralschool.com! 14