Atelier Joya featured on Martha Stewart

Photos by Sabine Scherer

We're super excited to finally get to share photos from a wedding we worked on last September. The wait was well worth it....we are featured on Martha Stewart. Yay!!! It's so much fun to see some of our work featured there.

This was such a great wedding to design. The client really wanted their wedding to feel handmade, crafted and unique. Their color palette was inspired from the golden gate bridge and it's surroundings. The blue of the sky, the teal of the bay and the reddish orange of the bridge. We used a combination of zinnias, dahlias, eucalyptus, olive, and celosia for all of the florals. Vintage mason jars wrapped in yarn, sea glass ball jars, vintage metal tins and red wooden buckets were all incorporated. Custom burlap linens bordered with poppy red fabric and tied with french ribbon adorned the pie table, ceramic pie stands in the perfect red displayed berry pies, and vintage grainsack linens served as coffee table runners. Red & white striped straws and craft paper placemats made the tablescape playful and napkins tied with detailed red & white striped twine were a perfect touch.

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Vintage Escort Card Display

             photos by Anna Kuperberg http://kuperberg.com/

This was one of our favorite escort card displays to design. Our client wanted a vintage, french feeling for her wedding. Our inspiration was the writing seen frequently on the windows in the cafes of Paris. We knew we wanted to use window panes and translate this design into the display.  After much hunting for the perfect windows, we found these at the flea market. Yay!!! Now you can see the end results. The client was super happy and guests were so excited to find their name on the display. These windows now reside in the the client's home. The perfect memory. 

Rainy Day Cheer

Photo by: Sabine Scherer (www.sabinescherer.com)

    We have been having so much rain here lately. It was the perfect day to organize lots of photos of last years events. When I came across these bright yellow zinnias I immediately smiled. Ahh...so fresh,     bright and cheery. I felt like I had seen a bit of sunshine, definitely the perfect fix for this rainy, cold day... hope you can find a ray of sunshine in your day!

Oh how I love thee, Anthropologie...

Once again Anthropologie came up with adorable packaging for their holiday gifts. I absolutely love the color palette they chose and the simplicity of the felt circles attached to a shoelace type string. It's

just perfect.

What is so fun about these circles too is that you can create different looks on each package. Of course, if you have a favorite style you can keep them all the same.

How cute would these be tied around napkins at your wedding or used as a simple garland at a dessert table?

The How-to Holiday Centerpiece

As a floral & event design company, the holidays are such a busy time for us. We are always running around working on holiday decor installations for homes, stores, parties, and more. It's such a fun, festive time, but sometimes we're so busy decorating others' places that we forget to add a little festive touch to our own homes. We were determined that this year was going to be different. So... Priska (P) & I took an afternoon to bring the holiday spirit home. With a little Christmas music playing in the background, a pumpkin spice latte for P and a mocha for me (that's pretty much what gets us moving), we were ready to get started.

We both made table centerpieces, since we'll be having Christmas dinners with the families. We thought this was a perfect arrangement to show you how to make. The great thing about this arrangement is that it's quite elegant and it looks quite complex, but really (our little secret) it's quite simple. This is the perfect arrangement to give to a hostess, your in-laws, or to a close friend. It can be used as a centerpiece, an entryway arrangement and much more.


A few items that you will need:
ball ornaments in an assortment of sizes (you can choose any color that you like)
floral tape
1 block of floral oasis
glue gun
glue stick
clippers
floral wire
glass vase
loomy dish
small pinecones
pine branches


Step 1: Place the oasis in a bucket of water. Let the oasis soak up the water without pushing the oasis down in the water. If you let it soak up the water naturally you are sure to have the inside of the oasis completely wet. 

Step 2:

Place the plastic liner in the vase and then put small pinecones around the liner. 

Step 3: Cut the floral oasis to fit on the loomy dish. Shave the corners of the floral oasis so that they are rounded rather than sharp corners. 

Step 4: Place the loomy dish on top of the plastic liner and secure the oasis/loomy dish down with floral tape. 

Step 5: Clip small pieces of pine branch and begin inserting them into the oasis. It's ideal to insert the pine at a downward angle so that the branches are covering the edge of the vase and hiding the oasis.

Step 6: Wire pinecones and ball ornaments so that you will be able to insert them into the oasis as well.

Step 7: Continue adding pine branches into the oasis and mixing in some pinecones and ball ornaments. It's nice to group the balls and pinecones in clusters. Continuously turn the arrangement to see that it's even and balanced all around.

Step 8: Once the arrangement looks full and there are no empty spaces use the glue gun to tightly connect the ball ornaments together. You really just need a dot of glue here and there. 


Step 9: Voila, you have made a beautiful arrangement. Place in the perfect location and enjoy!!!