Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Spring Has Sprung!
- 13 April 2012
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Capilano Flower Arranging Club workshop design.
The sprouts are sprouting and the bees are being and the birds are birding.
It’s spring, again!
Every winter, especially towards the end of a long, dark and wet winter, you will hear someone grumbling that it might never warm up again.
And then one morning, quite unexpectedly all the twigs that looked so dead unfolds delicate green stems and bursts with new life.
New growth and new possibilities
The promise that sleepy winter made, fulfilled with great enthusiasm
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I use edible mushrooms in my designs. To preserve them I press a tiny stake into the base and let them air-dry.
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