Finding balance

Craft a straw covered wire grid to slip over display containers for a foam free floral display that is light and airy... just like it grown in the field.

It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.

Let tendrils do what they naturally do to help keep your flowers in place.

Gently curl and tuck strips of Kyogi paper to form a tangle of curls and scatter a few orchids to create the impression that a gust of wind just blew it that way

My summer design strategy: the warmer the weather the deeper the water. A vine frog is just the thing!

Passion fruit flowers never lasts long. Not even growing outside on a vine. But the buds continue to open once cut making a wreath display ideal for an even changing passion fruit...

Hatching an Oncidium orchid from a succulent vine nest... as one does in early Spring.

Using branches pruned from a fruit tree... with a few dried flowers and just a few orchids to make a fresh Spring design.

This is a great way to explore using vines dried, soon to dry and fresh and hydrated to craft the thinnest possible transparent design.

A zero waste and sustainable floral design solution to keep your flowers exactly where you want them without using floral foam.

Wire twigs and wire around a shallow container to keep your floral details suspended in water in a shallow container.

A wire armature for delicate flowers

Glue a few twigs into a rectangular shape to hang as a space or room devider

Tangle and shape wire to create a half moon for grass and gyp to rest in

Great craft for when you are tidying up the garden before the first frost but would still like to enjoy the vines for a bit longer.

Glue an overgrown thorn armature to a container to display fully opened tulips

I wanted my design to look more "found this way" than "designed this way" so I strategically tangled the ribbon to dangle down the design rather than tie it in a neat bow.

For my "I found it this way" Floral Art demonstration at The Capilano Flower Arranging club, I began all four of my designs with basic armatures made of Twig Tangles and we...

A perfect way to use a Lathyrus vine after all it flowered

Easy to weave design that can hold your prettiest autumn design treasures.

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....

oh yes, a light an airy design showing off those very first autumn leaves.

Kyogi Paper and Phalaenopsis Orchids Blown Away in the wind

That incredible moment when you realize that one good idea for your design really is enough...

Weave a wreath from sweetpea stems and tendrils

A visual breather from all the bright and festive designs to come when designing for Autumn.

Easy does it design that hints at but is not yet as intensive as the fun basket weaving and crafting that comes with Spring designing.

Frame a passion flower in a vine wreath for a short lived but so pretty arrangement.

Weave a web of jasmine vine to support orchid stems

Whipped up to be light in the Spring breeze wreath design.

Tangle jasmine vines outside a vase for a transparent screen to display floral details on and around a sea horse vase to display floral details in.

An all out effective way of keeping a flower stem in the exact spot you want it to be in a clear water vase design.

A minimal Thanks Giving design that is a modern take on a wreath

Stack and glue a large twig rectangle to hang as room divider

Bend and knot wire into a heart shaped armature

Tangle some wire to set flowers in water

Time to cut down vines... and enjoy them a bit longer in a Halloween display.

A very secure thorn branch armature to hold overgrown Tulips in place

Scatter some dried grass to make a floral armature