Summary📑🌿
In this video, you see me navigate my way through making an edible art arrangement from start to finish. 4 different types of fruits and 1 type of vegetable were used…2 types of vegetables if you consider an avocado a vegetable. Greenery & dry elements were also used. The arrangement has a base layer, middle layer, and top layer. The final result was shown at the end.
Chapters📝🌿
00:00 Intro to Edible Art Arrangement & What It Includes
01:16 Edible Art Arrangement Supply Items
03:18 Why I Wanted to Make an Edible Art Arrangement
03:49 Detailing the Cost of This Edible Art Arrangement Project
05:09 Disclosure Regarding This Edible Art Arrangement Video
06:04 Creating the Base Layer for an Edible Art Arrangement
09:56 Creating the Middle Layer for an Edible Art Arrangement
23:16 Creating the Top Layer for an Edible Art Arrangement
27:25 Doing the Finishing Touches on an Edible Art Arrangement
32:26 Showing the Results of & Providing Tips for an Edible Art Arrangement
34:30 Providing Tips, Feedback, & Inspiration for Creating an Edible Art Arrangement
36:27 Where to Display Your Edible Art Arrangement
37:40 Closing to Edible Art Arrangement
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Today, let’s make an edible art arrangement. For the edibles, we’re using four fruits and one vegetable. They have been carefully selected for winter interest. And of course, they are delicious, too, except for one because it’s brand new to us. So, we are looking forward to trying it. Since it’s an arrangement, we cannot forget about the greenery and the dry plant. materials. An arrangement is not complete without them. I hope you will come along with me as I navigate my way through making this edible art arrangement from start to finish. I know you will learn something from my experience, challenges, and successes. And after watching this video, I hope you will be inspired to make your own edible art arrangement. I dry some of the pianies, but I don’t think I’ll be using any just because it’s more of a spring color. Put these down here and if we decide to use it later, we can do that. It’s easy access. I think you know most of the items here, but just in case, let’s go over them together. Let’s go over all the plants first. banana shrub, Lauro Petilum, juniper. I think we have two different um kinds there. Maybe just a little bit of the one. And then this is Cammy Cyprus, the one that is more on the yellow side. If you watch the other video on making a wreath, those were the same plants that were used. And let’s look at the dry items. So we have dry eucalyptus here. This is dry hydrangeanger tardiva. It’s the hydrangeanger paniculada. dry basil stems here. Of course, the pine cones and I got some leaves here. Let’s move on to our edibles. We got white onions, avocado, dragon fruit, pomegranate, mangoes. We got miscellaneous items. We have a container here, a tin container. We have a rock. And we got some crumbled up parchment paper. And this is going to be where we’re going to have our display be sitting on. Purchased that a while back. And another parchment paper there. All right, trying to rearrange these items on the bottom there. All right, so let’s get started with our edible art display arrangement here. Now, usually I do not do any of this stuff. I do buy certain fruits and of course vegetables and would not put them in a nice arrangement, but this year I don’t know. I just been feeling festive and just want to do something that brings colors, you know, into this time of the season. Let’s go over how much I probably spent on this project. So, these guys were free. These were pruned off yesterday or the day before I should say. Same. These came from the garden. The cones were pine cones were purchased a while ago, years ago. This one was purchased years ago. This one came from a peach can. I would say no more than $15$20. Don’t quote me on that. So, there was an arrangement here before the fall arrangement and these guys were in there. So, we’re just going to reuse the parchment paper here. And the parchment paper, the reason you have it in here is so that like things like these, like pollins and other little things that are that came from plant items will not get all over your floor. And guess what I’m going to do? All biodegradable. So, I do want to say that I am in no way an expert at making arrangements. So, hopefully we will be putting all this together and you’ll be able to see my mistakes and difficulties and all that. You know, if you see that something that I did or going to do that’s not working out, you know that you don’t have to do that with your own arrangement because I was the guinea pig for you. I’m so sorry. The audio has been going in and out for some reason. I was not even aware of that. That’s why the previous few videos have been pretty bad as as far as audio goes. So, it may be going in and out and you might not able to hear me as well. So, hopefully you’ll be able to see what I’ll be doing. So, we’re going to start with the base layer first. You can do this however you want to. I haven’t found a formula for this and or have researched into that, but I’m just gonna wing it and just let my creativity flow. All right, we’re going to do kind of like the same way we did the wreath. We’re going to put All right. So, yeah, we’re going to do that. So, we’re going to have the side with the shoots going this way. And then we’re going to do kind of like shoot to stem. I That’s how we’re going to say it. So, like this. And then you’re going to pile it again. So, it goes like that. Not like this. We don’t want it to be like this because then you’ll see the two stems going like that and there’s a ball spot right here. So that’s why we have to go like this. But you can always improvise like it was done in the previous video. All right. So do that. And for this one, if it goes out a little bit, that’s fine because it’s going to make it more interesting, I think. Let’s hope we have enough to go around. Let’s see if I remember what I did. Let’s go this way first. That that I’m the kind of person that I need everything all messy for it to look nice cuz I’ll be so focused that I do not have the brain capacity. to organize things. The more that it gets messy, it just means that I’m more focused in what I’m doing instead of focused in trying to organize. All right. So, something like this. You see that? This maybe here in the center. The other thing that we can do is not have it in the center. Sometimes having it off center makes for a nice I’m trying to think of the correct word to say it. It’ll come to me eventually. It’s not an arrangement. It’s not a feature. It’s it’ll come to me. It’ll just make it more interesting. So, we can do something like this. Or we can do something in the middle. Now, if you recall, I like symmetry. So, more likely I will favor something in the middle to bring symmetry. So, I don’t know. Some people, you know, they can do it off center and it it’ll look great as well. So, you know, we can always change it. So, for now, let’s just keep it like right here. Pomegranate will last you a long time. How do I know? Let me show you. These right here have been in the arrangement for going on I think two to three months now. And look at this. What it will do the is the the outside that will get will harden seeds will still be nice and juicy because I cut one open already. These are worth buying for an arrangement. I would say that pomegranates these will work for any occasion. Look at the colors. Although they they look more like winter interest plants, like for winter arrangements, they can be used for the summer as well, the spring. So, and of course the fall fall and and winter I think work the best, but again, can be used any season of the year. So the the pomegranates are going to be your best friend and they’re going to outlast all of these guys. So avocados will be the first to be eaten. And then the mangoes. So mangoes, if you I do not like ripe mangoes, but I can. My family will enjoy eating the ripe mangoes. So, these guys, we’ll just leave them until they’re nice and soft, but they can be eaten while they’re green like that or when they’re still hard. I prefer them on the crunchy hard side versus the um ripe side. And of course, the onions, they’ll last pretty long. I would say a good month. So, but eventually they will um go bad on you. So, yes, these are going to at least give us these guys will at least give us together without the avocado should give us at least two weeks of enjoyment as an arrangement. Did not mention the dragon fruit. I do not know anything about this plant. I know my family my family that doesn’t live close to me, they eat this. So, I’ll have to ask them about it. I thought it was just interesting because it has a different look to it. It has some texture in there. So, this I would say might need to be eaten, you know, maybe in a week or so. No more than a week. That’s what I’m thinking, but I could be wrong. If you have experience with dragon fruits, please let me know. Anyway, this is although it’s more like pink, it’s more maybe in a in a spring arrangement. I just saw because of the nice texture, it would work for our arrangement here. And because there’s only one, so it’s not going to show off um you know, as far as colors go more than the other ones. That’s what I’m thinking. Just so that we could we could lay the fruits nicely in there. All right. You’re going to see the image in the tin right there, which is nice. And I thought this was really pretty having the stem still on it. So, I don’t know. Just we’ll just play around with it. And the first, you know, it might not look as good, but we’ll keep going. And you can put it in different. That one’s up. This one we can go down like this. Maybe this one can be on this side. And let’s see. Oh, and I have a rock. All right. So, I don’t know if we’re going to need this this rock. The reason I brought it is because it’s add another element of interest because as you know a lot of the fruits are circular in shape and we want something that’s not circular. That’s why I got this even though this tin can right here still looks more circular but at least it’s more cylindrical. And this is kind of heavy also. So I don’t know. Maybe we won’t use it. Maybe we will. Maybe we’ll just put it like right here in the center and put this right there like that. See, now it gives it more of an interest because it’s sitting on this rock. And if we go like this, it might be even interesting. Now it stays. And we might not need everything. All right. So, let’s since this is green, we’ll keep them towards the outside to match with the greenery. And then we know that we can use these very quickly and nothing is, you know, um there’s no weight on the avocados. All right. H don’t know about this. So, you can see with this size basket, you really don’t need a lot of edibles. I did not know. I just wanted to make sure that I had plenty instead of, you know, having to go and get some more. All right, there. Yeah, we’ll do I don’t need to I don’t I think I’m good with the white. I think I’m good with the I don’t need to use Hm. Trying to think if I Okay, so we got four right there. Maybe another one. Here’s a tag cornucopia of fruits, which is really cool. All right. So, I do want to use I think we can put this and maybe I want to put all the avocados in one spot. Another way to do it. There’s that. Wow, this is more than It’s looking so pretty. It’s turning out to be so nice. I’m going to put because I do love I do love the pomegranates. I want to put something where it’s, you know, it’s not restricting airflow because I do not want things to collect moisture and get rotten very quick. These I know that I wasn’t going to use just because um these are the old ones and I’m going to be eating these. I can see that is tilting on one side. So that’s not good. We can fix that. I think the basket is not. Um, okay. I think it’s the rock. All right. So, this is when we go to back to the drawing board, sort of speak. Oh. Oh, no. My avocado fell. All right. So here’s that. It looks better. And we can do this too. Look at that. So this is another option. That way this will be a lot higher than before. All right. So this is another option. And let’s do now we can do it like this. Nope. Now, we don’t want to like that. Grab the avocado there. You can see now this is in the center. You see what I mean? It always has to come down to it being more symmetrical. All right. I think it’s just if I remember correctly, this does tend to lean to one side. And this one is holding that in place. We’ll put I’m trying to make use of all the fruits. That’s why I’m having a hard time um figuring out what to do. Let’s get the avocado back. All right. There. I do like the avocados together. I don’t know. It’s just something that I think looks better when they’re together. And Oops. All right. So, maybe we don’t use this at all. I don’t know. I do want to use it somehow. Right. I’m going to use one of these to make the rock here sit better. Now, it’s still leaning. All right. Sorry about that. I had to turn the camera off because I couldn’t figure out how to make this container work. So, eventually I just took the rock out and leave it like this because this was not sitting very well. And I forgot. I knew I forgot something. So, I harvested some rosemary this morning. And this is a blueberry stem that we’ll be able to use. And these guys were from the other day as well. So, we have some extra plant plant things there, plant materials. All right. So, this is what I have. And I think I’m pretty happy with it. Although I do want the the pomegranate to stand out a little bit more because I do like the structure. Just trying to figure out how to do that. So I might um do something with that. Decided to put this up here. Sometimes I do like it when it’s off center. We could do maybe we can put something like this and we can raise up the pomegranate to look like that or we can shoot this side going that way or we can make it going this way. So, lots of different options and they’re very fragile. Just just be aware of that. Wherever you put um you want to make sure it’s, you know, it stays put. And look at this beautiful pine cone. I love this guy. So, this is something that could be put straight up like this for a vertical interest. I mean, it could just go like that, too, if you wanted to like that, right? I don’t know. Maybe maybe this is something that we’ll just do. That’s interesting. All right. So, and we’ll just play around with these. Just insert them wherever you want to. All right. So, I was planning on inserting these guys in here. So, let’s see if I can still do it with that in the way. And I think I will put it on one side so it’ll seem offbalance. makes it more interesting. So, we’ll just insert together like that. Have some greeneries in there. Yeah, I think I’m going to do it um leaning it like this. Doesn’t look bad at all. Something like that. I’m going to turn to see how it looks. Now, sometimes simple is the best, but I I do want to show you like what it could look like when you have it all full. I just love these hydrangeas hydrangeanger bloom heads so much. I did not think that these will would produce seeds like this. But so far, it’s my it’s my favorite hydrangeanger to use in an arrangement because these seeds, oh my gosh, they just look so pretty. Let’s see if we can make use out of the rosemary. Since we have brown here up here, we just want to put some green in there to kind of help balance the whole composition. I think that’s what I wanted to say. The composition. That’s it. Composition. Some of them can go out of the containers too because as long as they have a way to um stay put themselves. All right. It’s not bad, right? Not bad at all. The the banana the banana shrubs turn out pretty good as far as, you know, them being able to stay nice and fresh. I don’t know. Maybe this is too much. I don’t know. I guess you can decide like which side you want to be um to be the back and which side you want to be in the front. Maybe we could add some to the bottom like this. Do you have some? I want to make use of all of the conifers. Trying to make sure also that there’s airflow. I might not have done a good job, but I’ll just make sure to check on the edibles. I thought the lauro la Lauro petilum would last longer, but they don’t look so good. They look like they’re wilting. Although these guys are not, you know, they’re still not dry, but they just from afar they do look like they’re on the dry side. So, we’re not going to use these because I think they’re going to get dry get dried up pretty fast. So, where is I do want to use the blueberry cuz I think it’s beautiful. Trim that off. Let’s see if I can do this. I was going to do something like this. I can. These will likely not last for so long, but it’ll be fun to see in the meantime. They’ll look like ornaments. Makes me want to use some of the edgeworthia buds, but I will leave those alone. Oh gosh, these look so much better than I than I thought. Oh, pretty. All right. Lastly, I wanted to show you these. So, these are parchment papers. I was crumbling them to resemble little ornaments, little white ornaments. But we have the white of the onions already. I wasn’t sure how I was going to use it, but I know they they really do look like like toilet paper or tissue paper all crumble crumbled up. It just adds another texture to it. You don’t have to put it in, but I just thought it’d be interesting. And it’s parchment paper, so it’s not going to get um wet. So, that doesn’t look bad at all. So, you can go like this to expose the inner core. Looks like little petal. Oh, not little petals. Yeah, it look like flowers, like bloom heads. I’m pretty sure I could sit here and figure out a way to make this look more beautiful, but for the sake of time, we’ll do something like this. It just adds another layer of texture. Or you can just do like this. It’ll look like little little balls like that. So either way, so all I did was crumble up like this. crumble it all up. Now, if you do this more times, it’ll eventually look like cloth. Now, I could imagine doing something like this, having something inside so that way you can have the little ball shape, a rock or whatever it is. So, that way you can have a nice shape like that. Maybe another one like right here. Just together like that. Just another layer of interest. All right, let’s clean up and then we’ll show you the finished result. All right, things that we do not want on the table have been off the table. All you see is this beautiful arrangement now. Oh my goodness, I am so impressed. So, added a couple more rosemaries. I was cleaning up. Saw two more that I could use. Also rearrange the parchment elements here. So I got one here, one here, and one here acting almost like a bloom. So let me give you a 360 degrees view or I should say 360°. Here’s the first one. Here’s that one. Hopefully, there is something interesting in each one that you can see from your view. Here’s the other one. Here’s that one. And I think we are back. I just love it so much. It turned out better than I thought it would. I know in the beginning you saw that I was, you know, wasn’t sure how all this was going to go, but in the middle I think I finally got my kind of like my focus and was able to see, you know, like how I wanted a lot better. So, I’m so happy with this whole arrangement and I had so much fun making this and it should be like that, right? So, please make it fun for yourself which means that it does not have to be perfect. This is is not perfect. And put in something that you enjoyed looking at, you enjoy having as an ornamental interest. I know a lot of people love pine cones. A lot of people love eucalyptus and of course the conifers. As far as the fruits go, pick something that you would enjoy eating, but just know some of them might um be more perishable faster than others. So, as mentioned, the pomegranates will last a long time. So, that’s a good one to use and the colors, as mentioned, works for different seasons. The mangoes will, you know, if you buy them starting green, they’ll last for quite some time as well, at least 2 weeks. Onions, of course, you know, they’ll last for a good two weeks. avocado. As mentioned, they will not last as long because they’re going to ripe up pretty soon. Maybe you can insert some cookies in here. I can see that this is something that you could do as a gift to somebody that you know. So, there’s just a lot of different possibilities with doing something like this. And again, I cannot stress enough, this does not have to be perfect. This is going to be an ongoing arrangement, a dynamic arrangement. Things are going to be changing. You might, for example, in my situation, I will replenish the rosemary when these guys are no longer looking fresh. So, now let’s talk about where you can put this beautiful arrangement you just made. So it could be in your a place where you sit and read, a place where you have your morning coffee or your morning tea. But it’ll be a place that you can relax at or in. And you can take this all in. If you feel like, hm, you can check out your mango and if if it feels ripe by touch and you would like to have it for a snack, guess what? It’s easy to do. Just take it out. You can replace it with something else or you can just leave it like that. So, I am so happy with this and I cannot wait to put it where I’m going to put it on a table that was purchased um from Goodwill. It’s more of an outside table, but I use it in the house because it’ll last a lot longer than having it sit outside. And I think I’m going to enjoy it so much. This turns out to be so beautiful, so perfect. Perfect in my eyes. So, with that, thank you so much for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it and found it helpful. And until the next one, I hope you take care. Bye for now.
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Lovely! I love the height and can see this in an entrance hall.