THURSDAY FLOWERS .....Pretty Purples and Lace

In floristry class this week we continued on with more bridal work and began funeral designs.

funeral work seems really depressing and sad but I am trying to look at it from the perspective that flowers offer hope, warmth and love when people need it the most.

I will share the pics of my bridal bouquet first.

We had to make a bouquet that was divided into 5 sections. Each section housed one variety of flowers.

I used the following blooms in my design.

 Carnations

Gerberas

Kale

Statice

and I used lace doilies in one of my sections.

Here are the results 

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and here is a side view of my bouquet

 (held by a friend from my class)

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and then we pulled that design apart and remade it into this funeral tribute.

Doesn't Kale have the most amazing colour !

I just love working with it.

Lastly in our busy day we made a handbag spray for an evening purse or in my case a wire basket.

I used Lizzianthus, Status, Carnations, green gum nuts, Kale leaves and rolled gum leaves.

and when I attached it to my basket it looked stunningly beautiful !

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 Pictured below is the spray the next day after no water and it still looks beautiful. It helps though that the temperature is cold. I have given it a light spray with water so hopefully I will get one more day out of it tomorrow. I shall take my basket out shopping tomorrow to show it off.

and this design below is something that I made this afternoon in my studio. Pinks and lemons were my colours of choice.

Flowers are a gift from above and always bring a smile to a face no matter who you are.

Have a fun filled day and thanks so much for popping in :-)