Grocery Store Arrangement (10 min)

What does it mean to create not with the ideal, but with what is available?

In this episode, Sarah Ryhanen takes on a long-requested challenge: creating a Saipua-inspired arrangement using only grocery store flowers and foraged materials. The process becomes an exploration of restraint, resourcefulness, and a reconsideration of what we call beautiful.

She confronts the tension between creative identity and limitation. 

She moves through skepticism, navigating the challenge of working with pedestrian materials. 

She finds small moments of unexpected harmony between mundane carnations and wild mossy branches.

This is not just about flowers. This is an exercise in learning to work with what is in front of us rather than against it.

Watch the short TV episode above, or dive deep with the full, step-by-step arrangement lesson here.