Wedding favour boxes

If you are looking for wedding favour boxes Kris at Kris's colour stripes has kindly shared these. You can download them here.

While you're there check out her beautiful blog for tonnes of colour palette inspiration.

Wedding flowers

This week after months of gathering ideas I finally got round to putting together an inspiration board for my wedding flowers. We are getting married in Spring, my favourite time of year. I plan to have Avalanche roses and hellebores (of course) as the main flowers for my bouquet. The colour scheme will be mostly green and white.

Image credits:
Dress: Marylise
Archway: h for hellebores
Cake: Marks and Spencer
Table arrangement: via weddings by Zoe Lingard
Shoes: Benjamin Adams

Favourite finds - winter white

It's a beautiful crisp white winter's day here today so I thought I'd share some of my favourite white things, like these Not Rudolph coat hangers by Birkiland. Yes, I know Christmas has been and gone but I'd still happily hang these on my wall.


I have a huge collection of Scandinavian vases, but am in love with the simplicity and practicality of this 'Betty' vase by Helsinki based designer Lincoln Kayiwa.




How amazing would this dress be for a winter wedding?

Snow queen marabou vintage fabulousness via Peonies and Polaroids.

Connecting with your inner princess

I was reading some of the wedding graduate posts over on A Practical Bride earlier today and what almost everyone without exception says is that all of the little wedding details that you spend months planning just go out of the window on the day, which is as it should be really. As someone who had never really given a thought to how (or even if) she might get married, and who had certainly never craved a fancy wedding, at first I was sure that I wanted our wedding to be as simple as possible. After all it's the being married that matters, not the wedding... right? I have absolutely no interest in favours or pew ends or finding exactly the right shade of chair cover, and don't even get me started on champagne glasses decorated with paper butterflies. The only things that really matter to me are marrying the man I love, having a nice dress to wear and being surrounded by a handful of special people.

But a few weeks after Mr H popped the question, after I had taken out a subscription to 'Bride' magazine and spent more hours than is really healthy glued to my laptop trawling wedding sites, he remarked "this wedding thing has really unleashed your inner princess hasn't it?". I reluctantly have to concede that he is absolutely right. Somehow I have begun to connect with my own inner princess, and I have no idea where she came from. Despite myself, and Mr H will mock me for this, I have to confess to finding this sweet little ring pillow by Easter Yu rather lovely.

Happy new year

Wishing everyone a new year that's bubbling over with happiness.

Photo credit: techmeister

Wedding invitations

Although I haven't yet mentioned it here, as well as learning floristry I'm also planning my wedding at the moment, so occasionally one or two wedding ideas may find their way onto this blog alongside images from my floristry portfolio.

As there are now less than 100 days to go until our wedding it occurred to us over Christmas that we really ought to get a move on and think about sending out some invitations, so I've been gathering inspiration today.




Both of the designs above are free to download at Wedding Invitation Ideas.

I also love these by La Lissa Designs at etsy



but my favourites are these by Storeyshop.



They are so simple but so pretty and, like a box of delicious Belgian chocolates, designed to be opened with anticipation and pleasure.

Christmas work experience

I've been doing some work experience this week in the run up to Christmas. Having never worked in a florist's before I would have been quite happy to just clean buckets, sweep up and make coffee all day long. I wasn't really expecting to be thrown in at the deep end and let loose to make up hand ties with such lovely flowers, so I owe a big 'thank you' to Antonia and Daniel for their patience and encouragement and for providing me with such a great learning opportunity.

On Friday when the delivery arrived I was really excited because I got to go on the big Dutch flower lorry. It pulled up on the kerb outside the shop and beckoned me in with its multicoloured patchwork of row upon row of floral gorgeousness, including the most amazing lilies I have ever seen..... I swear they must have been four feet tall!

Here are a few of the bits and pieces I got to make.

Christmas wreath

Here's my finished Christmas wreath, made using the mossed ring I posted a picture of last week. This one is now hanging on my front door.

Alternative wreaths

I've been researching ideas for alternative materials to use for my Christmas wreath project today. These beautiful paper creations are by Haru and are available from etsy

Woodland style moss ring

With Christmas just around the corner it was time to start making decorations at college this week, and I loved getting my hands dirty making this moss ring which will be the base for a Christmas wreath. In next week's class I'll be adding spruce and eucalyptus to this (and maybe a shiny bauble or two), but for now I thought it would be fun to play around with some ivy and winter jasmine from my garden. The result has a woodland feel to it...... I kind of like it.