My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Designs

12 April 2023 The word we are looking for is… fun

A leaning twig armature with both the first signs of Spring and the last signs of winter.

5 April 2023 Where do you even start looking?

Easter egg... egg for Easter eggs

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.

22 March 2023 ... and just like that we spiral back to... Spring!

A spring spiral design... with a hint of a root nest. Easy to do

15 March 2023 Hop… Lots!

Beautiful blossoms don’t NEED much to make it into a lovely design. But the start of Spring might just inspire you to add a bit much… just because it makes you happy.

8 March 2023 And now we wait

A bit of flower magic to get a few early blossoms to enjoy inside.

1 March 2023 … ish

An early... ish Spring basket glued from blossom twigs

22 February 2023 Jump out at you

Early iris flowers in a bud vase.

15 February 2023 If you frame it that way…

A blossom frame to display the prettiest anthurium of the whole bunch!

8 February 2023 Snow… drops

A late winter design for minimal floral styling.

1 February 2023 Why When

An old tulip trick in a new way to keep the flowers fanned out

25 January 2023 Even More

This orchid developed at the very end of a long stem... right as the rest of the flowers started to die back so I made a special armature to display the cut stem.