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Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

As the leaves melt away

30 October 2013
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Happy All Hallows’ Eve

Double, double, toil and trouble;

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Double, double, toil and trouble;

Something wicked this way comes!

Double, double, toil and trouble;

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Composer John Williams adapted the lyrics for “Something Wicked This Way Comes" or "Double Trouble" for the Hogwarts Welcoming Feast (performed by the Frog Choir) in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban from William Shakespeare's famous witches around the cauldron scene in Macbeth.

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Tutorials

30 October 2013

Straightening wire

Wire is always sold in a roll and it can be very frustrating to try to remove bends, kinks and curls.

30 October 2013

Spiked Autumn leaf cauldron

Pike a few (hundred!) autumn leaves to build up a hollow leaf armature

30 October 2013

Chocolate leaves

Melt and dip foliage to create chocolate leaves

26 July 2011

Wire Tendrils

Curl the wire at irregular intervals to create a natural wire tendril similar to that of a passion fruit plant

4 September 2024

Ivy and tendril blooms

Wrap ivy leaves around a passionflower vine tendril to craft a flower

4 September 2024

Dried Bougainvillaea and pink Pepper berry Disk

Pink just before autumn, autumn design to celebrate the richness in colour.

2 November 2022

A Reflex Rose Rose Hip… Rose

Making a rose even more roselike by enhancing its rosy-ness.

18 May 2022

How to skewer foliage tubes for a lily bud swirl support

Ombre designing with the smallest to the biggest lily buds in a shallow container.

22 September 2021

Crafting a Corny Corn Husk Corn Armature

Four ears of corn, corn husk wire armature with a hidden water source for the fresh flowers.

17 June 2020

Reusable Table Top Lei Armature

An easy to do, budget friendly, craft ahead- use many times floral armature.

9 October 2019

Quarter fold and Thread an Autumn leaf tube armature

This armature is actually made of four times as many leaves as what it looks like to create a hinge to fan the entire leaf-tube open yet keep it's shape.