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Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

To have your centerpiece... and eat it too

We often hear "you first eat with your eyes" or "a feast for the eyes" -I love that.

Of course presentation matters!

This was my design for The Capilano Flower Arranging Club workshop. We were exploring designs using all things edible: fruit, vegetables and a bit of herbs.

For my design I used a fruit that is a vegetable

The plump vine tomatoes were so pretty that all I needed to do was add a sprinkle of chives and a few sheets of lasagna.

Well, maybe we also need a bit of cheese....

I used Kyogi paper to separate the lasagna sheets.

Kyogi paper was historically used in Japan to wrap food. All natural, keeps the food from drying out, adds a subtle flavour and it can be composted to return to the crop-soil-cycle! It is pine (or cedar) wood that is shaved so thin its almost transparent. It can be wrapped, rolled, cut, stained, torn and easily glued.

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