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Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Just think!

Just think floral art design

"Chocolate is made from cocoa beans,

Viola, willow and cane Easter basket.

which is the dried and partially fermented seeds of the cacao tree,

Spring nest basket

And a tree is most definitely a plant.

Willow and cane and Viola Spring basket.

Therefore,

Delicate Easter Basket

chocolate counts as a salad."

This week’s quote found it’s roots in a quote on Meme Generator... but it is slightly altered to make it more botanical.

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Tutorials

8 April 2015 Cane and Willow Nest Shaped Basket

Weave a nest for Easter eggs

25 September 2013 Adding beads into a design

I wanted my beads to softly float above my snowball posy. If I glued the beads to some of the flowers it would just disappear in the mass of twigs and flowers.

4 January 2011 Drinking straw "test tubes"

When you need to keep a tiny stem hydrated this is just what you need.

19 February 2013 Manipulating stems: Snapping at an angle, Bending, Spiraling, Curling and Straightening

Most stems, twigs and even sturdier branches can be bend into shapes. It takes practice and more than a bit of patience. The main idea is to slowly manipulate the branch without...

Favourite Flowers

Salix matsudana "Tortuosa"

Curly Willow, Chinese Willow, Tortured Willow, Globe Willow, Dragon's Claw, Hankow Willow

Related Designs

3 August 2016 Practice

Weave a willow bird nest

11 April 2017 Well… we did it again!

Blossoms and chocolates for Easter

18 April 2018 Swing Vine

Weave a delicate vine swing to nestle a small vase with spring flowers in

20 March 2019 It’s all ===> right

Hang a dangling eggshell in a Spring blossom design.

17 April 2019 Hopping with Excitement

A hoppingly-fun Spring design for Easter.

8 April 2020 Don’t put all your Baskets in one Egg

A bit of a wrong way round pretty Easter design. Put the basket weave inside the egg instead of putting the eggs in a basket.

29 March 2023 To grow a patch of grass of our very own

The first of my new monthly articles about growing the material you need to design with. This month we are taking stock of what we need... and growing wheatgrass.

3 May 2023 Spring Row

Viola and chives cleverly dancing upright in a row.