Handmade with love

My friends bought me a personalised stamp for my birthday, along with a packet of labels, and I thought it would be perfect for labelling my hand tieds. My friend requested a bouquet to give to her nan for her birthday so I got an opportunity to use my new stamp! I think it looks pretty cool, and I've written my details on the back so it acts as a business card as well.

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.

Wire Wrap

My wires were starting to become messy in my floristry toolbox, so my mum made me a storage wrap for them. She previously made one for her knitting needles but it works just as well for floristry wires!

I'm stitching the wire sized on myself but don't have all the wires at the moment to fill it up - looks like I'll be stocking up in the college shop tomorrow!

My first paid work!

A girl at work saw my wreath design from last week and was so impressed that she asked me to make her one as well, which she paid me for. She said I could do pretty much anything I wanted but as I really enjoyed working with the dried fruit I decided to incorporate that into the design.

I have actually changed the wreath slightly since I took this photo, by adding another cluster of dried fruit and a pine cone at the top, between the cinnamon and under the chillies. I just thought it looked a little uneven and it was bothering me!

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

Table centrepiece

My mum tasked me with designing a centrepiece for the table on Christmas day, and this is what I came up with:

It did take me quite a while but I'm so pleased with the overall result that it was definitely worth it!

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.