evening flower crowns

Some time ago I had the pleasure of spending the evening with a beautiful bride-to-be and all her fun friends in a room full of flowers. Flower crowns are quite the thing at the moment - and understandably so! They're so fun to wear and surprisingly easy to make. Get yourself some blooms and some floristry wire and you're good to go.

Photos by my incredibly talented friend, Linda. Click for more!

a wedding: jess & dan

Some floral work I did for a wedding a little while ago. Stunning photography by Jo Bartholomew - I have fallen in love with her photography, so please check her out! 

a purple english garden cake

Oh, look! I made a cake and covered in flowers!

Predictable. Reliable.

This beautiful and massive cake was made for a friends parent's double 60th birthday party. The brief was for layers of dark chocolate and honey lavender cake smothered in white chocolate icing (this recipe to be exact). The flowers: a purple hued English garden. I've never been to an English garden, as I've never been to England, but I guessed that roses, lavender and lisianthus would be about right. I snuck some Australian foliage in there - this is Australia though so it's only fair.

There is not much in this post that you haven't seen before, except that I'll show you a neat little trick on how to secure fresh flowers to a cake.

peach & blue

I've been working on a few weddings recently.

My favourite part of doing the flowers is when you've finished the arrangements and you pack them all up in a box to transport them. You end up with a sea of beautiful blooms and colours.

How lovely is this colour palette?  Peach roses and light blue hydrangeas are perfect for a breezy outdoor wedding.

These were for a particularly lovely wedding that I promise to tell you more about another time.

pretty petals: country garden

My kitchen table often looks like this:

Why? I'm not sure, really. Because I love flowers? That'll do.

As per my birthday resolutions, I'm working on learning the names of all the flowers. All the flowers. Okay, no, not all of them. But all the ones that I would expect to find growing in the local flower market.

If you need to make 35 bunches of flowers for $2 a bunch - you'll need to stick to daisies and chrysanthemums. Apart from how delightfully cheap they are, aren't the just so cheery?