More weddings and a funeral

I started this blog so that I could keep a record [for myself] of anything I make or am involved in creatively, whether that be professionally or domestically.

Sadly my stint at Les Fleurs, the florist, has come to an end. I thought I'd put up a couple of photos of the work I have made recently.


There were wedding flowers:

Lovely blousey peonies and alchemilla in goldfish bowls for wedding table arrangements

Wedding table arrangement

button holes

Some contract vases:

Cimbidium orchid
and bare grass

Shadows from orchid vases

Vase arrangement
[anthurium, lily, snow berries, eucalypus, phoenix ,drecena]

Vase arrangement
[heleconia, agapanthus seed pods, hydrangea, celosia, gladioli, drecena, phoenix]

 

It must sound like an awful thing to say, but I really enjoy making funeral arrangements.  With this arrangement the customer requested that this piece be big, tropical and red, yellow and green to represent the Rastafarian flag. 

Tropical funeral arrangement
[sunflowers, calla lilies, anthuriums, chrysanthimum blooms, celosias, gerberas, roses, phoenix, fatsia, drecena]



The day job

I am temporarily working a couple of days a week for my friends Mandy and Vanina in their beautiful florist, Les Fleurs [it just happens to be next door to the MAKERS gallery I mentioned in my last post].

I have to admit there was a part of me that felt like coming back to floristry after nine months of making my own work in my studio would stop the flow of making and I would feel frustrated by this.  I am, however, finding it is a lovely refreshing change and I am really enjoying working with flowers again.  Its good for me to realise that creativity takes many different forms and not to let myself get too one track.

I made this little floral number at the end of the day with odd stems left over from other arrangements ultimately destined for the bin [some I literally swept up off the floor].  Its just a bit of fun and very much thrown together, but I couldn't resist borrowing one of the florist's decorative bird cages to 'stage' the flowers.

Take a look at www.lesfleurs.org.uk to get a taste of the lovely work they do.