AMF team: Fiveloaves Twofish 
Teacher: Lizzie Tran from Patrick Henry High School
Intern: Isa Madina
Artist: Emily Criscuolo
This is a story that helps girls understand who they are and the girls around them and while we are all different we are all  beautiful and have a place in the garden.
We tell our story through the arc type flowers, Daisy, Rose, Sunflower, Lily & Lotus. Each flower personify characters in women and girls a like.

 Daisy's fresh and innocent beauty radiates through her sparkling eyes and wide, laughing smile.  Everything about her seems to move with an almost child-like eagerness and cheerfulness.  She is bright, caring, and extremely loyal, particularly to the cluster of friends who have won her heart over.  Daisy's cheerfulness sometimes lead the other Flowers to believe that she might be very social; however, she definitely likes to remain within the warmth and comfort of her personal cluster of friends, rarely moving outside of this circle. She is surprisingly artistic, meticulous, dreamy, and always polite.

Examples: Kiera Knightly, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson 

 Rose thrives as the center stage of the Garden.  Her beauty is like a thunderous musical: she is loud, gregarious, all-encompassing, and undeniably gorgeous. She loves to talk about herself, and sometimes forgets to listen in the middle of a conversation.  She is an entrepreneur, a leader, a singer, and an adventurer.  Despite her self-proclaimed importance and stage-like beauty, she is exceedingly generous and can sometimes surprise herself and others with her willingness to work hard and make all kinds of sacrifices for her loved ones.

Examples: Oprah Winfrey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Taylor Swift 

 Like Rose, Lily is gorgeous and showy but a touch more wild and edgy-- at least, on the outside. Although Lily imagines herself to be less egocentric, her social openness and liveliness commands just as much attention as Rose does.  Having led a somewhat less privileged life, Lily makes up for her past with a determination and powerful talent that earns her respect and  her place in the Garden. She is energetic, quick to make decisions, always up for a party, loves to try on new “looks” and new identities, and is somewhat stuck in her past issues.

Examples of Lily: Angelina Jolie, Madonna 
 

 The practical gal of the Garden, Sunflower is the peacekeeper and the organizer.  She is effortlessly and thoughtlessly beautiful, standing tall above the other flowers, reaching for the warmth of the sun and the endless possibilities of the wide open sky. It is impossible to dislike Sunflower, for she is friends with everyone.  She is a leader without being a queen, and brilliant without being showy. Sunflower glows from the inside out, is graceful and eco-conscious, and the model by which so many others strive to be, and be with.

Examples: Jackie Kennedy-Onasis, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep 

: Introspective and somewhat melodramatic, Lotus is mysterious, striking and exotic in her beauty, and quiet.  The polar opposite of Rose, Lotus's center stage is not the social scene of the Garden, but, rather, the mental scene of her own reflections.  She is a loner and somewhat lonely, occasionally resentful, and sees the Garden through poetic spectacles.  She tends to stay out of the gossip and socialization of the Garden.  Lotus thinks carefully about every action and reaction, and feels every emotion powerfully.  She falls in love with friends and ideas easily, and can be sometimes overlooked due to her quiet, but burns in the memories of those who know her.

Examples: Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci, Helen Bonham-Carter 
 
 

...her own dance party

Dancing to Death from Above 1979

"I've seen soldiers fall like lumps of meat"