Christmas decorating: part 1

My christmas tree! My family left me to it, they've learnt that the hard way, so this is all my handiwork. Well, except the lights - there's three sets on this tree so I got my mum to help. The tree is real and the decorations are strictly gold.

Floristry: Week 10

This is what I made in the tenth and final week of the first unit of my Floristry course. I'm so pleased with the final result! Although I am slightly annoyed that the design is off centre because it moved on the table before I added all the decorations.

Christmas Wreaths

In the final week of the 'Hand Tieds and Arrangements' unit of my course we are making a christmas wreath, and we have been given complete control over how we make and decorate them. So I've been looking for some ideas. All of these images are from a Google Image Search.

I've got a load of dried fruit, berries, pine cones and cinnamon sticks so I'm going to go for something quite natural. I really like the ones with little woodland creatures so I went to a garden centre to see what I could get. They didn't have any squirrels or owls but I got some really cute little mice instead which I hope will work. I also bought some ribbon and gold baubles to make it extra christmassy :)

Floristry: Week 9

I missed week 8 of my Floristry course because I was away in Edinburgh so I wasn't really prepared for week 9. We got a handout at the start which has a basic list of the materials we use and luckily I'd read it to know to bring in a vase! I would've been very stuck if I hadn't brought one!

We used very few flowers in this design but that doesn't  subtract from the overall look. Plus the colours and baubles make it look very festive!