Springtime arrangements

My mum brought home some flowers during the Easter weekend and asked me to make an arrangement for the table. This is what I came up with, and I had some flowers left over so I made another small arrangement with them. The foliage all came from the garden so it's really useful that my mother is into gardening!

Spring flowers

I have developed a new found obsession with pussy willow and my mum has a plant in the garden so I wanted to incorporate some into a design. So this is what I came up with, and I'm so pleased with it!

Sympathy: Week 2

This is what I made in week 2 of the sympathy flowers unit of my course. This design would be used by grandchildren to give to a grandparent, so they could each take a section to fill with their favourite flowers. The material cost for this was £18, but my course leader says they sell for about £65 so that's a pretty good rate of return!

I was a bit sceptical about this at first, with the different colours involved, but I actually really like how it turned out. And it doesn't look depressingly funeral-y either! The freesias are starting to come out so the section between the two pinks is starting to look more purple and therefore making the whole design more even.