My valenVine

Dew-Drop Crystals

I created the Tutorial for how I add these crystals to my floral designs 11 years ago! Since then I have tried, tested and searched for the perfect crystals that would go from studio‑table picture perfect to show‑day‑dependable and I always come back to these. They remain the absolute best. They’re inexpensive yet have a refined, high‑quality crystal brilliance; they don’t tarnish and their adhesive backing stays reliably tacky even after they were exposed to water.

Float a swirling vine nest in a small vase to help keep your flowers in place

Turn a flower vase into a bud vase by floating a smaller container inside the larger one.

Syringe with tube

Easy way to fill test tubes and easiest way to remove water from a vase

Using a pin to place tiny dew drop crystals

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

Willow Heart Wand

A Sprouting Spring Twig Heart

Carefully glue a twig armature to display the mini-miniature Darling orchids

Love Bug

Heart shaped rosery vine and pine love bug

Stacked Table-Top Twig Heart

Stack and glue moss covered twigs into a heart shape

Braid a Celtic heart knot

Braid or knot a traditional Celtic heart with foliage

Wire two Equisetum shoots into a heart

A wire in the hollow cavity inside a shoot of equisetum makes it easy to manipulate into a heart

Moss Heart

Biodegradable copper mesh makes the perfect shape to fill with moss to grow tiny stem plants

Bark covered heart

Cover cardboard with bark to create a heart shaped log

Braiding three Tulip stems

Plait Tulip stems

Where to cut Tulips to condition

Here is a trick to make sure your tulips will condition thoroughly

Tangle a Ceropegia Woodii bud vase nest topper

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

Love Spell

Weave willow to create a heart shaped wand design

It could hold

A fragile looking heart made from twigs that can hold a lot of orchids

The sound of a kiss

Stack and glue twigs into a table top heart

Two Are

Equisetum Valentine's hearts

Parallel Hang Ups

While waiting for the blossoms to open... why not weave in a touch of Valentine's Day love?

Winter formal

The elongated heart shape Echeveria waist corsage is meant to be worn low around the hip as a trailing ribbon clasp.

Grow Love

Love grows!

Sticktoitness

Glue a heart shaped design made from bark and wood.

A quirky kind of Love

Retail florists and wholesalers are already designing, ordering and preparing their product range for Valentine's Day. This is my article that I wrote for the December 2012 Valentine's Day Design Issue of Canadian Florist Magazine

Love at second sight

This is my article that I wrote for the Valentine's Design Issue of Canadian Florist Magazine

Tiptoe through the Tulips

Braid Tulip stems to set in water

When the Super-duper is taking it Easy-peasy

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.

Spoiler Alert: It’s You

A birch bark heart for Valentine's Day

Tulipa

Plaited tulips in my I’ve got my head in the clouds design.

Ceropegia woodii

Pompon Chrysanthemum pom-poms and strands of Rosary vine for my floral lariat necklace in the Canadian Florist Magazine