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A New Twist for the Holidays

We love this time of year!  Everyone seems to be in a great mood (except for Scrooge and the Grinch), and the colors everywhere are beautiful.  Reds, greens, and whites dominate the floral arrangements with roses, carnations, mums, gypsophila, holly, and red berries just to name a few.  However, every year we see the same flowers and fillers being used.  The best way to draw a revived attention to your arrangements is to provide something different!  Floral Cotton is that perfect new replacement for your "whites".  It can be used along side red roses and carnations, or simply be used as a gypsophila replacement.  And as an added plus, you can provide a different texture with a snow-like feel.

Photo Credits: Teleflora

Trendspotting - Cotton is popping up!

http://www.betsywhite.com has an awesome collection of Cotton being used in unique and beautiful ways!

"In my last Trendspotting post I talked about humble flowers… cotton bolls are another example of how something really simple can become unexpectedly beautiful if used in the right way. We’ve been seeing raw cotton pop up in several weddings lately and I’m loving the trend!

These puffy little blooms work well in centerpieces and small decor details…"

In bouquets…

And they make the best little bouts…

I notice that the cotton trend has mostly been used in weddings with a natural, organic feel… I’d love to see how they would look a bit more glammed up as well. Any florists out there willing to take on that challenge?

www.facebook.com/soft.natural.beautiful

www.floralcotton.com

Photo Credits:
row 1: both images: Heather Curiel Weddings via Style Me Pretty
row 2: Jasmine Star Photography via Green Wedding Shoes
row 3: Heather Curiel Weddings via Style Me Pretty
row 4: Melissa Diep Photography via Style Me Pretty
row 5: Bella Grace Studios via Ruffled | Jasmine Star Photography via Green Wedding Shoes
row 6: Jasmine Star Photography via Green Wedding Shoes | Almasy Photography via Elizabeth Anne Designs

www.betsywhite.com/flightsoffancy/index.php/2010/06/trendspotting-raw-cotton/

Floral Cotton Centerpieces

Find more beautiful examples of what you can do with Floral Cotton, here:

www.facebook.com/soft.natural.beautiful 

Decorating with Floral Cotton

Southern Rustic Home Decorating Tips

By Emily Maggrett, eHow Contributor

Southern homes emphasize hospitality, offering a welcoming respite from hot, humid weather. Rustic decor, with its complex textures and casual sincerity, can be easily adapted to Southern interior design. Take your cues from Mediterranean interior decor styles, which often employ rustic elements to create chic rooms that work for warm climates. Remember that rustic doesn't have to mean unsophisticated. You can combine elements from many warm-weather cultures to build a truly personal style.

Cooling Interiors

• A color scheme of chocolate and white can create casual elegance.

  To make rooms feel airy and fresh, keep interiors simple. Paint walls in soft neutrals, like white or sand, or cover them in unpainted plaster. Leave floors uncarpeted and unvarnished, letting the natural beauty of wood or stone breathe. Eschew curtains for unadorned windows that fill rooms with natural light.

Rustic Furniture

• Adirondack chairs work well both indoors and out.

  Fill rooms with rustic furniture in the Mission or Adirondack style. Opt for pieces like bent willow rocking chairs and hickory sideboards. Rustic furniture tends to be unupholstered or partially upholstered, so steer clear of heavily padded pieces. When choosing upholstered furniture, avoid weighty or patterned fabrics, instead using light, natural materials like jute, raw cotton, raw linen, hemp or raw silk. Choose loose weaves to allow air to circulate, as these may also assist you in keeping fabrics from molding. While Mediterranean homes do include plenty of colorful elements, these usually come in shades that can be found in nature. If you want to incorporate color into your Southern rustic decor, choose hues like cinnamon red, pale green, sun yellow, eggplant and azure.

Southern Touches

• Hang walls with mounted antlers.

  Let Southern history and traditions inform your home's furnishings. If your region has a hunting tradition, honor it by using deer horns, fox hunting prints, bear furs or bloodhound motifs in your decor. Light your mantel with bayberry candles, and display local pottery in your parlor. Stack bookshelves with classic works by Southern authors, such as Mark Twain, Walker Percy, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and Katherine Anne Porter. Fill your garden with native plants, such as dogwood, Virginia creeper, black-eyed Susans, cypress, magnolias, kudzu and indigo.

Rustic Centerpieces

• Baskets can also be used to house centerpieces.

  Use centerpieces to set a rustic Southern tone. Wrap vases in birch bark, and fill them with Southern foliage and flowers like pine branches, wild geranium, myrtle, gardenias, begonias, viburnum, wild cherry, dogwood, clover, violets and mallow. Fill windows with pots of marigolds and zinnias. In winter, improvise centerpieces from dried cattails and peacock feathers, or arrange lengths of dried willow branches in a tall urn for a dramatic impact.

You can get cotton for these ideas and more at: www.floralcotton.com or www.facebook.com/soft.natural.beautiful

Read more: http://www.ehow.com/list_6731476_southern-rustic-home-decorating-tips.html

Floral Cotton Harvest - 2011

Cotton as a decorating mainstay

Floral Cotton is the newest American grown product to take the floral industry by storm.  We have been swamped with orders for both cleaned bolls and complete Floral Cotton stalks.  

Please check out our video from the 2011 harvest here 

Floral Cotton on Youtube

Floral Cotton featured at the Floral Cotton used prominently at the 2011 New England Society of New York Dinner Dance.

Mr Charles Kittredge, Chairman and CEO of Crane & Co., Inc. was honored for his innovative leadership of an historic American company. The Society's invitation archives printed on Crane paper were on exibit during the event. Crane paper is manufactured with recycled cotton.  So this years flowers were adorned with  American Cotton , Hydrangeas,Roses, Pears , Pinecones ,Cinnamon, Holly and Berrys.

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