Silk flowers

I don't just deal in fresh flowers - I can also make arrangements with silk flowers. I was given this basket arrangement by a woman at work - it was the centrepiece from her wedding and it is her 25th anniversary this year so she asked me to freshen it up. Needless to day - it needed a lot of work!

I didn't want to change the arrangement too much because then it wouldn't be the same, and it would lose its sentimental value. The flowers were fine, just needed a little cleaning, but the foliage had to go. Therefore I took the arrangement completely apart (had to be done!), replaced the oasis and all the foliage, then put the flowers back in. I did add some additional pink roses and white blossom flowers, so it wasn't the bright green of the foliage against the soft, faded tones of the flowers. The old arrangement also had a lot of gaps so the additional flowers helped to fill these.

The first three flowers show the before, the others are after.