Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
As light as a super thankful pumpkin
- 9 October 2024
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…well… it is Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend. And here it is: my absolute favourite meal (too good not to share!) with all the flavours of Thanksgiving for a rainy autumn night pizza:
leftover Turkey
Cranberry and port sauce (a dollop here and there)
Pear
Walnuts
Red onion (chopped)
Brie cheese
Mozzarella cheese
cut all the toppings into small chunks for a taste of each flavour in each bite to arrange on your pizza base. Have a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend, flower buddies and thank you for all the beauty you create.
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Tutorials
A great way to show off your Thanksgiving pumpkin before cooking it… keeping the pumpkin well above and out of the water so that it will not rot and you can easily remove it from...
It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.
Most leaves and foliage can be slightly manipulated to curve or curl.
Use a wreath to keep flower and a heavy little ghost pumpkin in place in a small vase.
This is a great flat and open basket to take outside when “harvesting” your fall leaves, pods and flowers. Who knows, you might even find a ghost pumpkin or three…
Glued Baby's Breath Wreath, folded in half to create a moon shaped armature
For this design I wanted my wreath to be light and airy so that it just whips around the solid pumpkin like a breeze.
The word ‘Besom’ derives from the old English ‘besma’ meaning ‘bundle of twigs’.
Suspend a heavy butternut over water in an early Autumn design.
Create a textured wreath with Chrysanthemums and rolled up Autumn leaves
Wrap and tie a fishbowl vase with corn foliage to craft a lantern for autumn... almost... Halloween.
Weave willow between the fork in a twig to create a paddle like armature
Made from dried cherry twigs and a skeleton leaf.
It’s amazing how we sometimes try to complicate a design. I tried adding calla lilies… took them out and loved the willow. Added gerberas. Took them out and loved the willow....
A hovering Halloween design that seems to float.
Instead of vegetable net bags becoming trash wrap it around your container for an instant armature. It even looks a bit like a spider web- perfect for a long lasting design as we...
Reshape a vine wreath into smaller wreaths to combine as a pumpkin
Twirl and wrap wire and lily grass around a dowel stick to create a spring frog
Favourite Flowers
Chrysanthemum or "mums"
Related Designs
Create a floral circlet to rest the little pumpkin on... but above the water line.
Give a loosely woven wreath legs to stand on to hover lightly around a pumpkin
Oh my... a corn leaf mummy head for autumn... looking ahead to Halloween styling.
Barely there skeleton blossoms with Eucalyptus eyes for my Halloween design... Oh! and a Willow Paddle, which probably should have been the main Tutorial... but... well...
A twig and stick design with sweet dumpling pumpkins and rosary vine (Ceropegia woodii). I also made a cherry twig and skeleton leaf Stick Insect
Mixing permanent and fresh design ingredients to celebrate just how clever the glow of Autumn is.
My Halloween design... with some scary stuff hidden if you can read between the leaves!
A simple way to keep the plastic mesh the pumpkins are sold in from becoming trash: wrap it around the container as an armature for a quick Fall design. Replace the flowers as...
