Kio Kreations' Blog

NEW FLORAL DESIGN CLASSES!

kiokreations — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:11:43 +0000

Kio Kreations is offering a variety of floral design classes for Winter 2010/Early 2011 Season. Click the following images to find out more! Sign up TODAY!!!

Visit Us at www.KioKreations.com

kiokreations — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:13:25 +0000

Please visit our main website, www.kiokreations.com and read our new blog!

Go to WWW.KIOKREATIONS.COM

kiokreations — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:38:06 +0000

Go to our “real” website: www.kiokreations.com

What is Kio Kreations?

Kio Kreations is an all-encompassing creative services company. Started by Kristen Janes (formerly Kristen Henschen) in 2004, Kio Kreations has grown to include floral design, graphic design, product design, fine art, and other creative services. We have quickly become one of the highest-rated independent florists in the Chicagoland. We also design oodles of fun things for sale on ETSY and ZAZZLE. We design lots of stuff for corporate & private clients and also teach art and floral design lessons. We really are an all-encompassing creative services company!

LOVE BREWS Wedding Event

kiokreations — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:19:00 +0000

Save the Date for the LOVE BREWS WEDDING EVENT!

Kio Kreations is going to be featured as part of the LOVE BREWS Wedding Event on Sunday, February 21, 2010 in Palatine, Illinois. Please mark your calendars for this Talent Showcase with Live Demonstrations!

After years of avoiding bridal expos and shows because of their “sell-sell-sell” nature and their impersonal, convention-like feel, I have finally decided to do a Wedding Event–MY WAY!

“Love Brews” is the anti-wedding expo. It is a smaller, more intimate showcase of 6 wedding vendors which will include beautiful sights and sounds along with live demonstrations given by the vendors themselves. There will be no need to feel pressured to sign or buy anything – this is more of an opportunity to see your vendor/s working their magic in person.

Vendors featured at the event include:

Kio Kreations (Florist, Decor & More)
XL-Entertainment (DJ)
The Chair Couture (Linens)
Cynthia Sally (Makeup Artist)
AC Design & Photography (Photographer)
Big Day Boutique (Invitations, Decor & More)

The venue itself, Emmett’s Tavern and Brewing Co., has 2 stunning rooms available to rent for your small reception, rehearsal dinner, engagement party or wedding shower. I loved this venue so much after my first visit there for dinner with my Mother-in-law that I knew I wanted to do our event there. It is located in the western suburbs just north of Schaumburg off of Palatine Road. It is also within steps of the Palatine Train Station making it an easy destination for city brides.

Why call this event “Love Brews“?! Well, I wanted to play up the venue which is this stunning building below that is both a restaurant and microbrewery. The whole idea that they brew their own beer only adds to the uniqueness of the event! Plus, all of wedding professionals featured in this event are independently-owned and budget-friendly allowing you to get your “champagne tastes on your beer budget”….so it just makes sense that we all be a part of an event called “Love Brews”!!!

I am so very excited about our event and hope you can attend! Please save-the-date and tell others about it! This event is open to our existing & future clients as well as newly-engaged couples still looking for great vendors. We hope to see you there!

Visit the LOVE BREWS WEBSITE for more info!

Floral Design Classes

kiokreations — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:12:39 +0000

Sign up for floral design classes given by ME at the Naperville Art League. Registration has already begun for these totally awesome (and affordable) 6-week winter courses.

Go to KIOKREATIONS.COM for info + updates!

kiokreations — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:03:28 +0000

My website is going strong–but sometimes if you Google me, this site (my old blog) comes up first. No biggie…just go to www.kiokreations.com and find out more about our many creative services (including floral design and graphic design).

I can also be reached via email by going to this contact page.

Some of the things we’ve been up to include the following:

My upcoming Floral Design Classes…

And we have the LOVE BREWS Wedding Event coming up in February 2010:

And of course, we just completed another fabulous wedding!

Can’t get enough of Kio Kreations?! Well…click below to:

Keep up with us on our website!
Become a fan of Kio Kreations on Facebook!
Check us out on ETSY!
Look at our ZAZZLE products!

Thank you for your support!

www.kiokreations.com

Kio Kreations website launched!

kiokreations — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:46:44 +0000

I will no longer be blogging on this particular WordPress account–but I will continue to blog on MY NEW WEBSITE! Please visit me there www.kiokreations.com

Flowers-to-Go!

kiokreations — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:10:24 +0000

My next-door neighbor Kevin saw me processing flowers (that means cutting, pruning and conditioning new flowers and putting them in buckets) and asked me if I could whip up a quick, cup-holder sized floral arrangement that he could surprise his wife with it for their anniversary. Since he was going to pick her up at work before dinner, we thought it would be cute to have it ready there waiting for her in the car! In about 5 minutes I made this adorable bouquet in a bud vase! Love it! And of course, so did his wife Jamie!

ATSTUDIO Junkyard Chic Fine Art Photography

kiokreations — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:35:06 +0000

Something really can be said for fine photography, it makes ‘everyday’ into art…
I love Thomas Slack’s photography because it is just that, ART. Below are all of the best shots from the Junkyard photoshoot I made bouquets for.

All photos taken by Thomas Slack of Slack Photography

In Love at the Intercontinental

kiokreations — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:38:05 +0000

I just completed the wedding of Kristine and Jon Hernandez at St. Priscilla’s Church in Chicago, with reception at the Intercontinental Hotel Chicago-O’hare. It was fabulous! Their colors were burgundy, dark raspberry, & lime green. The flowers we used included “Black Magic” deep red roses, “Green Tea” green roses, dark pink cymbidium orchids, burgundy and white callas, green and white dendrobium orchids, green hydrangea, burgundy peonies, green hypericum berries, and magenta “Calypso” mokara orchids. The colors looked great together!

Since this was a Filipino wedding, I had about 40 boutonnieres and corsages to make…part of Filipino tradition is to have “sponsors” so that adds to the personal flowers count and then some! After I dropped off the bouquets to the hotel, I headed to the church to hang hydrangea on the pews and pin/magnet all of the dozens of corsages and boutonnieres to the extended bridal party. One of my favorite things was talking to 2 of the 5 little flower girls about flowers…they were so inquisitive and one of them decided that callas were her favorite flower! 4 of the flowergirls carried green button pomp pomanders, and 1 of them was under 2 years old and got a tiny, tiny bouquet of button pomps…it was Barbie-sized and just perfect! Another fun tidbit would be that most of the bouts/corsages had magnets on them, meaning instead of being “pin-on” they were “magnet on”. This costs about $3 more per bout/corsage but makes for a really easy and secure method for attaching them to attire. It worked really well with the fancy dresses of the female sponsors and the thin fabric of the male groomsmen’s barongs. I highly recommend the magnet-on method if you can afford it!

As for the bouquets-Kristine’s was a gorgeous mix of burgundy peonies, callas, roses and deep pink cymbidium orchids with a bling buckle and lime green satin-wrapped handle. The girls wore burgundy so they carried all-green bouquets made with green hydrangea, roses, dendrobium orchids and hypericum berries. They were so pretty! I also loved the tossing bouquet I made, which combined green and burgundy flowers into one really awesome little nosegay!

The reception venue was modern & fresh. There was custom art in the hallways, sculptural ceiling accents and the banquet chairs were anything but banquety! For the cocktail hour, we did 8 square vases with either orchid heads, bear grass and a floating candle OR 5 green roses with bear grass. I also added petals all over the place and displayed my “signature” gift card holder which had a floral rim of burgundy and deep red carnations with some lime green button pomps and lime ribbon accent. It looked so sleek! Loved it.

For the centerpieces, we did 2 styles:

(10) trio of cylinder vases at 12″, 16″ and 20″ heights filled with submerged callas, mokara and dendrobium orchids with sheer organza ribbon around the top and floating candles inside.

(16) trio of wine-glass style candle holders with green and clear glass stones, 2 short pillar candles and 1 filled with orchids with a floating candle on top.

They both added so much to the ambiance and looked just fabulous! The only other details to speak of would be the sweetheart table, which was decorated with the tossing bouquet in a vase and petals and votive candles. Oh! And who can forget the cake topper?! I think they found a vendor on ETSY that makes custom novelty toppers–this one was definitely an “Ode to the Groom” as he is a mechanic (see below)…it was one of the most unique toppers I have ever seen!

All images by AC Design & Photography