Sympathy: week 9

Week 9 of the sympathy unit of my floristry course. And I'm really not keen on this design! We got to vote as a group on which design we wanted to make and I was on the losing side so I wasn't keen even before we started. I did actually quite like the wire pillow after I'd make that part, but once I started adding flowers I disliked it again! I think they're just too big compared to the size of the pillow so I may try it again at some point with smaller flowers.

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 8

Here is the result of week 8 of the sympathy unit of my floristry course. I'm really pleased with how this design came out, it was quite simple to do but it's very effective.

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!