The Madness Continues

Tonight we ate congee run through a blender with some fermented bean curd. You really don't want to see a picture, do you? Actually, it looks exactly like the potato soup from last week. Here, look at pretty pictures instead:

I've never had so many flowers in my apartment at the same time. I put them all over the dining and living rooms. It's so nice to see them everywhere I look!

Lesson learned: beginners should stick to flowers with hard stems. These leaves were pretty, but the stems were floppy and very hard to keep in place as I worked. I also don't love the orangey pink roses, both because the color doesn't really go with the leaves and because they were smaller sale roses that turned out to be hard to arrange too.

I removed the few flowers that had died in the two first arrangements and re-did the rest into this. Much more full, round, and balanced in terms of both shape and color than my first try! I think I like roses best when they've fully opened up like this.