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Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Twiners Gonna Twine

Oh yes,

Twiners Gonna Twine floral design by Christine de Beer

It's finally

Vertical take on a nest design for spring

Time

Easter egg floral design for Spring decorating

To

Saxifraga flowers in a floral design for easter

Shine

Soak eggs in food colouring to stain them for Easter

and

Saxifraga floral arrangement that is sustainable and waste free

Twine!

Stacked egg nest for a mobile Easter decoration

Happy Easter, flower buddies

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Tutorials

27 March 2024 High Rise Twiner Jasmine and Twirling willow Easter mobile

A vertical take on an Easter nest design to craft a spinning mobile decoration.

10 April 2019 Twig cloud mobile

Wire a sturdy cloud shaped armature to hang a heavier water source for thirsty Wisteria flowers.

8 July 2015 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.

11 April 2017 A little nest for Easter chocolates that naturally hooks over the edge of a container

Weave a tiny nest with a twig hook so that you can hang it in a design

27 March 2019 An eggshell stack and grass snippet arch with a hidden water source for a Spring or Easter design

An almost nest like design with a hidden water source.

29 March 2023 Grow a wheatgrass patch for an almost entirely edible Easter display

Grow wheatgrass to create a Spring patch of green for your mini Easter egg hunt.

13 April 2022 Handcrafted grass and twig basket to hold some Easter flowers

Easter basket filled with (almost... almost chocolate) anthuriums.

31 March 2021 Interweave a criss-crossed nest for an Easter Egg

Zero waste, all natural Easter craft design.

5 April 2023 Interweave a dangling Egg outline Easter Wreath Basket

An open egg shaped wreath for Easter styling

7 April 2012 Just Hatched Papier Mache Easter Eggs

Glue newsprint paper to balloons to make large egg shaped containers to design in

3 August 2016 Hanging Willow Nest

Bend and weave a nest shape from fresh willow stems

8 April 2015 Cane and Willow Nest Shaped Basket

Weave a nest for Easter eggs

Favourite Flowers

Salix matsudana "Tortuosa"

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

Related Designs

26 March 2024 Grow and Cut Moss for your design room

I grow a lot of what I design with... especially the things that you can not buy... like moss

5 April 2017 Easter Bonnet

Weave a delicate Pillbox hat

2 April 2011 Easter Parade Demonstration and Accessory Workshop

Advanced level Workshop: For my Easter Parade Demonstration I made 6 hand-tied designs within armatures. The concept was to pick up the design while demonstrating and to literally...

21 April 2011 Happy Easter!

Spring "Ice cream" posy with a Banana Leaf "cone"

13 April 2022 Hop on… it’s Easter!

A cheery Easter basket for a new beginning

10 April 2019 Just Like Wisteria Rain

Craft a ethereal design from twigs and wisteria flowers

11 April 2017 Well… we did it again!

Blossoms and chocolates for Easter

20 March 2019 It’s all ===> right

Hang a dangling eggshell in a Spring blossom design.

3 August 2016 Practice

Weave a willow bird nest

8 April 2011 Large Open Weave Twig Basket

Easter Basket used in the Durbanville Flower Club Easter Parade Demonstration

8 April 2015 Just think!

Weave a nest for chocolate Easter eggs

27 March 2019 Like trying to find a water tube in a eggshell stack

A fun Spring and Easter design with stacked eggshells.

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.

16 April 2014 Never saw such a lovely day...

Weave a palm thorn garland to decorate for Easter

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.

5 April 2023 Where do you even start looking?

Easter egg... egg for Easter eggs

23 March 2022 Chockablock!

Luxuriously filled design... filled with flowers... filled with grass. But most fun, for us as designers filled with hidden techniques

7 April 2012 Spring Clean

A clean Easter design. The tiny blossoms are Kalanchoe 'Calandiva Pink'. Tucked low in the paper eggs are a few Cymbidium orchids and the twigs are contorted hazel. The...

31 March 2021 Criss-crossed

Hide an egg inside a interwoven nest for a dainty Easter decoration design.