Just a quick one today!
I wanted to share with you a few of the designs I made in class this week… I’ve had such a wonderful week at Floristry school! It’s one of the first times since I started when I didn’t want the week to end because I was enjoying what I was doing so much! I just wanted to keep playing!
Something seemed to click this week where I finally felt confident in my new found skills and noticed a rising passion for the art of floristry flourishing deep inside! (Corny, I know!)
This week we focused a lot on wedding bouquets and posies which are so fun and beautiful to make! Monday we had an assessment for a design called a Formal Hand-Tied Wedding Posy.
Packed full of even distributed flowers with a closed form (meaning no to very little negative space) and natural stems.
The second assessment was the informal version of the Hand-Tied Wedding Posy. The difference with this one is that there should be lots of negative space with materials placed high and low as well as placed in groups e.g. grouping of roses, carnations, foliage etc. This design should also take on a more vegetative effect which means the materials should look like they’re growing in a natural way.
The other assessment ticked off the list was the Informal Trail Wedding Bouquet. Although it did take about 2 hours to assemble, this one was slightly less stressful to make compared to the Formal version pictured below!

The Informal Trail Bouquet is a lot less structured, has lots of negative space and incorporates the use of line materials to carry colour and texture from one side to the other. The design is fully wired, which means all of the stems are cut off at the head of the flower, then wired and parafilmed. Materials then can be moved, bent, shaped and manipulated in any way you wish to achieve the design you want! This is sometimes easier said than done!


I really can’t stop looking at this design! I love all of the flowers and foliages I used and love the texture the pink/maroon Tea Tree sprays brings to the overall effect! So pretty!
Each of these designs are always finished off with a ‘ribboned’ handle which can either be ribbon, jute/hessian, lace, decorative ribbons, doilies or even natural materials like bark or big modern-type leaves. With the top two designs, I finished them off using a 20mm jute ribbon and bow and then used a lovely white satin ribbon on the last one.
It’s only three weeks until I finish my course and I’m trying my best to savour every minute – especially now that I’m really, really, really enjoying it!!
Happy Thursday, Friends!!
xx
10 responses to “May 19th: A Fab Week with Flowers!”
Loved your post! Really informative 💕🌸
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Wow, U are soooooo talented, congratulations,
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Thank you! 🙂
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Your flower designs are beautiful! I really enjoy seeing what you’re working on. I’m glad your having such a fun time in your floristry classes 🙂
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Thanks so much! xx
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Beautiful work!
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Thank you!! xx
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How wonderful to be able to work with something you really enjoy, or TWO! quilting and floristry! I hope you find a lovely position …. or even better, open your own shop, where you can sew in your down time! (from experience: I had my own hair place years ago, and often customers would drop by to see what I was sewing on when I wasn’t doing a service! loved it)
Sharon in Colorado
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It would be wonderful if I could combine both things together and build something successful out of it! It would be so much fun!! 😀
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Wow that’s very nice, so different from what I carried 39 years ago. It was a white plastic urn or bowl with a handle and a really beautiful spray of yellow roses. I am glad you are enjoying the classes.
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