Funeral tributes

At college this week we started the funeral unit, and we made a double ended spray and a loose posy pad. These were both practice pieces for two assessments we have the week we come back after Easter.

The morning tutor said my double ended spray was perfect and do the same thing for the assessment, and the afternoon tutor said I would do well with my loose posy pad if I made it the same for the assessment. So fingers crossed they come out the same way!

The Secret Garden window display

I've just finished the first part of the window display unit at college. We split into groups and chose a theme to base our display round, and my group chose "The Secret Garden" as our theme. We made five arrangements for the display - a twig pot arrangement, a topiary tree, a jam jar trio posy, a heart wreath and a hand tied. We got a distinction for our display so we must have a done a good job, and I certainly think we did!

The last photo shows my group - me, Rebecca, Amy and Louise.

Christmas wreaths

A little while ago I posted about my intention to make and sell Christmas wreaths - and here are the results of some of the orders I got! I had some very happy customers.

The last one is the wreath I made for my own front door, but the photo really doesn't do it justice.

Christmas at college

We're finishing off the art unit at college at the moment so we haven't been doing any practical work recently, but for the last week we made some Christmas arrangements - we made a table centrepiece and a door wreath. I'm so pleased with how they came out - especially my door wreath! It's a bit over the top glittery but I think it looks pretty good.

Another half day

I spent another morning in the florist last weekend. I made up a couple of bouquets and did a lot of aqua packing, and I got to make and decorate some Christmas wreaths! These were put up for sale in the shop which was quite exciting.

Getting ready for Christmas

It seems very early but I want to try and sell some Christmas wreaths so I went out this weekend to get some bits to decorate them with. Needless to say I got a little carried away! The wreaths on the white background are ones I put together this weekend - I just made one then changed the decorations. I'm going to promote them on facebook and at work so I wanted to have some photos ready for any potential customers to see. I've already got a few orders so I'm off to a good start!

The photo on the brown background is the wreath I had up at home last year, that I made on my evening course. That wreath was a lot bigger but also a lot heavier and more expensive to make.

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.