Flower wall: handmade

A little while ago I posted about a flower wall I wanted to make for my florist studio, and I've now made a start on it. My aunt and I spent the better part of a weekend cutting, folding and sticking all these flowers out of a couple of rolls of lining paper.

Yes it took a hell of a long time but it's so worth it! I haven't even done half of the wall but the amount I have done makes a real impact. I don't know how much more of the wall I will do - it would be great to have the whole wall done but it'll take forever. Plus if I want to put any furniture up against the wall then I won't be able to or I'll just ruin the flowers behind it. So I think I'll leave it as it is for now!

Flower wall

As part of my workshop redesign, I stumbled across the idea of a flower wall. These images, which are all from a Google image search, are all made up of loads and loads of paper flowers, all in varying sizes and designs. I absolutely love them! I'm not allowed to paint the walls of the workshop so this is a really great way to cover up some of the wood while also making the room more pretty and girly.

Only thing is...this looks like it takes absolutely forever to do! I'll post an update when I get started.

There's a good tutorial on how to make some of the flowers on this blog, and also a lovely post from a lady who did this for their wedding here.

Candy Canes

I'm a little bit obsessed with candy canes - I don't actually like eating them but I just love the way they look! So I wanted to find some ways to incorporate them into my Christmas decorating. I had a look around the good old Internet and came up with a couple of ideas and here they are:

Candy cane vase

Candy cane wreath

Christmas decorating: part 3

I had some cinnamon sticks leftover from my christmas decorations so I had a go at making some candle holders, and I love how they turned out. They're really very simple - they're just glass tealight holders from Ikea, cinnamon sticks, a glue gun, some ribbon and a pearl bead. And then the candle of course!

I think they would have been slightly better with a straight edge tealight holder though as the sticks have a few gaps.

Christmas decorating: part 2

Some more of my christmas decorating now - this is the garland going up my staircase. This is made up of a plain green garland, an ivy garland, lights, pine cones, cinnamon sticks, a tiny owl and little bird houses. Simple materials but I think they all look very effective when all together.