Tail End Of The Season

A fluffy faded leaf "tail" to display delicate autumn treasures

Threading leaves to craft a long garland armature for an autumn display

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.

Drinking straw "test tubes"

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

Stripping bark from willow sticks

Strip the green bark from the stems to expose the smooth wood

Fluffy Washi Caterpillar Armature

Skeletonize Physalis Pods

Remove the pulp from the papery pod (sepal) covering the little berry of Chinese lantern plant so that only the vain framework remain

Off-center hole-wreath armature

Craft a slightly off center wreath from dried vines and grasses for Phalaenopsis orchids.

Sun baked Sweetpea vine wreath

A perfect way to use a Lathyrus vine after all it flowered

Grass Spiral Wind Spinner

Thread grass into flexi grass to create a spinner that gently turns in the wind.

Taco-shaped twig armature

Make a half-moon shaped armature to fill with flowers

Drying Physalis sepals

Every Autumn we see the beautiful Physalis pods everywhere but they are easy to dry and preserve to use year round.

Tendril vine Wreath Pumpkin

Reshape a vine wreath into smaller wreaths to combine as a pumpkin

Cross hatch Twig Armature

Add a bit of shadow and dimension to a flat armature by using the sketch technique of cross hatching.

Bind Autumn design details and Christmas evergreens around an upturned vase to keep the stem ends hydrated... from Fall to Christmas!

A wrap-around-vase to show off new bits of Christmas and the last bits of our autumn treasures.

Keep your fresh plant material hydrated... and your dried plant material from falling into the water with a dried vine armature

Use dried floral details to keep fresh floral details suspended in water and fresh floral details to keep dried floral details from falling into the water… easy!

Fluffy

Fluff out Washi paper to create a delicate armature

Hole-ding it’s breath

Craft an almost Autumn armature from dried sweet pea vines

Bent

Weave a wreath from sweetpea stems and tendrils

At a Stretch

Glue a paper tube floral art structure

Putting your own spin on it

I would definitely describe my own personal style as minimalist classic... but with an edgy twist.

Thanksgiving Harvest

Thanksgiving pumpkin with Chinese lanterns and spiral blossoms

Bright, brighter… brightest!

Celebrate the bright colours of autumn with lilies and Chinese lanterns

What's done is done

My article and lace fine wreath design featured in the Autumn issue of DIY Weddings Magazine

As tendrils tend to do

Curl a wreath with tendrils to create a twig-pumpkin

A Round

Create a delicate design that rests lightly on the edge of a container

Mr Twig-or-cheat

An extra Almost-a-Design for Halloween this year

But what’s inside?

This week we are looking at the contents pages of my book... but more specifically at the sweet little pod design on the content page of my book.

Cross-hatch a Shadow Bright Autumn

A clever trick borrowed from art techniques to add dimension to a bright and colourful Autumn floral design.

In the Bag

My bag was woven from re-purposed wire and recycled fishing line and tiny stems of growing sweet pea plants and orchids

Fall into Christmas

Want to make your Christmas greenery last... this is perfect!

So Into Fall

Keep you fresh plant material hydrated in water... and your dried plant material suspended to keep it from falling into the water.

Lathyrus

This design was entered in the craft section of a show. I grew my bag over 12 weeks. Each day I would guide the tiny fresh growth of the Sweet Pea plants to completely cover the...

Physalis

Spiral flowers from Chinese lantern sepals for my Thanksgiving Harvest design.