Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Foraging
- 13 November 2013
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This week's design is part of a challenge issued by Sherry Donnelly of Gertie Mae’s Floral Studio , Alicia Schwede, owner of Bella Fiori and and Chuck Graham, Floral designer at BLOOM by Anuschka and Flirty Fleurs floral blog, where the designs are featured.
The rules:
Create a design using only materials collected from the area immediately surrounding the space you usually design in. We could use foliages, berries, fruits, etc – but NO flowers.
I must admit... I was absolutely spoilt for choice here in beautiful Vancouver (Bristish Columbia, Canada), I could even be fussy and choose the exact colour scheme I wanted. Within a few minutes I had an entire bag full of salmon pink autumn foliage for my very fishy-inspired design!
rummage,
search,
scour,
ferret,
forage
and generally rooting about
Thank you Flirty Fleurs for including my design in your challenge post.
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