A little on the wild side Christmas arrangement challenge

After our trip to the Camp Sherman Metolius river area, I came home with some good nature to use in flower arrangements. Thinking about what greenery and other natural items I had gotten and wanting to use them in several different arrangements to photograph, I searched in my own cupboards and photo prop areas for accessories that fit my vision. The initial idea to use more natural fauna from mother nature came from a couple books written by Ariella Chezar. I had read two of them and bought a third to inspire me. But I never got back to that book. The ideas though still hung out in my mind.
This first photo is all of my supply for this personal challenge. I could not use more than this, but I could use less…

I asked my 3 assistants to help me with this challenge, and they were all in. They love a good challenge. Poppa T keeps our schedule on track, Pinx really get’s into the project and our little Blew, well he is pretty shy but soon warms up.

We start with a few pieces of greenery.

after a while Blew really got into the project

Soon we were able to add the fake poinsettias and the matching swans

a little more tweaking and arranging and they decided that the arrangement was done

Except for…. Well the final portrait shot with all three of them

I would have loved to use real flowers. I really could see this with bright red Dahlias… but those are really hard to find in December….