Here’s what you need: garden shears, any knife, a cool mug (I got this one from Home Goods), a brick of wet floral foam, some green spanish moss, and of course some flowers! You can use almost any flowers that you love!  In this particular arrangement, I used orange ranunculus, purple peony tulips, yellow roses, and bupleurum greens. (Please note: the ranunculus and tulip stems are pretty fragile. I had to be really careful when sticking them in the foam). You can totally just use roses and moss and it would turn out beautiful!

First I measured my (dry) floral foam up against the mug and carefully cut it with the knife. Don’t worry it doesn’t have to be perfect, but you want the foam to take up most of the diameter of the mug so that you have lot’s of surface area to stick the stems into.

Next, I soaked my foam in my bucket for about 10 minutes.  When saturated with water, I roughly trimmed up the edges of the wet foam to fit into my mug.

You want the foam to sit in about a half an inch below the top of the container. This will allow the moss to sit in and stay in place when you put it in at the end. Again, this does not have to be perfect, but you can see that the foam takes up most of the space in the mug which will allow more surface area to stick the stems in.