Whipped up in the autumn breeze

Display wreath that hover around a big shiny pumpkin

For this design I wanted my wreath to be light and airy so that it just whips around the solid pumpkin like a breeze.

Weaving a twig wreath

For my design I wanted the wreath to look wind blown so I added a few loosely woven twigs into the weave. I also wanted to emphasize the autumn colours so I added a twirling copper wire into the weave

Leaf Swirls

Cut fall leaves to create continuous swirls

Flower Girl Red Net Basket

Weave a twig wreath for an easy net basket

Willow Heart Wand

Loosened Wreath Armature

Snip a dried twig wreath to undo the spirals to hang around a glass container

Chain link wreath weaving

Weave a few small wreaths to connect

Tendril vine Wreath Pumpkin

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

Taco-shaped twig armature

Make a half-moon shaped armature to fill with flowers

Folded Bleached Baby’s Breath Wreath Armature

Glued Baby's Breath Wreath, folded in half to create a moon shaped armature

Besom Broom

The word ‘Besom’ derives from the old English ‘besma’ meaning ‘bundle of twigs’.

Booo-tunias

A fun design trick for a Halloween display treat.

Booo-tunias levitating in a scary twig armature

Craft a stable dried autumn armature to keep petunia stems suspended in water at the top of a container.

Four wreath harvest basket that looks like it grew that way… because now some of it still is!

Harvest some cuttings to root in a wild and overgrown floral design.

Making light of a heavy, heavy pumpkin in double low containers for a zero waste kitchen pumpkin display… a few days before Thanksgiving

A great way to show off your Thanksgiving pumpkin before cooking it… keeping the pumpkin well above and out of the water so that it will not rot and you can easily remove it from the design when you are ready.

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!

Roof-tile pumpkin from dried physalis pods

Carefully stack dried physalis berry husks to craft a long lasting pumpkin that you can refresh with fresh flowers and vines.

Roof-tile pumpkin from dried physalis pods

Carefully stack dried physalis berry husks to craft a long lasting pumpkin that you can refresh with fresh flowers and vines.

Corn-o’leaf mummy-o'lantern

Wrap and tie a fishbowl vase with corn foliage to craft a lantern for autumn... almost... Halloween.

Summer harvest Vine Swirl

A great way have your vines root and enjoy them too...

Weave a willow wreath around a minimal pumpkin display

It’s amazing how we sometimes try to complicate a design. I tried adding calla lilies… took them out and loved the willow. Added gerberas. Took them out and loved the willow. Added orchids. Took them out and loved the willow. Added Dahlias… and yes, took them out and loved the willow. So finally I just thought- I really do love the willow.

Wire wrap for a shallow container to keep a twig arch armature neatly in place

Wrap a wire around both ends of a shallow container to keep the twigs in place.

Above and below eucalyptus curve butternut cradle

Suspend a heavy butternut over water in an early Autumn design.

Vase topped with a Hollow Wreath for Halloween

Create a dimensional wreath by assembling wreath vine to hug around an oblong container.

Arachnis Gerbera-petal-legicus

The easiest Gerbara disk floret spider... ever!

Floral wreath ring stem armature for a cute pumpkin patch in a stem vase design

Use a wreath to keep flower and a heavy little ghost pumpkin in place in a small vase.

Mesh bag net armature to keep your flowers in place

Instead of vegetable net bags becoming trash wrap it around your container for an instant armature. It even looks a bit like a spider web- perfect for a long lasting design as we count down to Halloween.

Peg a wreath to the edge of a container

Another version of a design idea I showed you last month... A vine wreath armature to balance a dramatic single stem anthurium. Only this time I take it a bit further.

Floating Filigree Pumpkin Patch

String up pumpkins and glass seahorse vases to craft an autumn mobile design.

Pierce and stack fall leaves to rest on the edge of a container

Use one leaf to keep the next in place

On The Street Where You Live

A floral design snapshot of what it looks like when walking down the streets of Vancouver this week.

The last Vine Wreath

Every designer knows how to stretch their supplies. We use and re-use our dried plant material until our fellow designers feel like hiding it from us. I formed such an attachment to my vine wreaths. This post features four designs using the same wreaths.

Feeling Funky

I wove vine wreaths to form a pyramid, one just slightly larger than the next. In the natural cavities between the wreaths I placed the roses and lisianthus in plastic covered Oasis

Veiled Sunshine:50th Anniversary of the South African Orchid Society at the Cape Town Convention Centre.

Bright and sunny cymbidium orchids and roses, lilies, lisianthus and pincushions

This is the Fragrance of November

Weave a wreath to thread a dome for an Autumn leaf design

Red, Redder, Reddest!

My article and flower girl net basket design featured in the Red! issue of DIY Weddings Magazine

Love Spell

Weave willow to create a heart shaped wand design

Watch the leaves turn

Roll autumn leaves to create a wreath

Ring-a-round

Open a vine wreath to create a spiral twig armature around a glass container

There are Octobers

Autumn wreath

As tendrils tend to do

Curl a wreath with tendrils to create a twig-pumpkin

Thanksgiving Harvest

Thanksgiving pumpkin with Chinese lanterns and spiral blossoms

Bright, brighter… brightest!

Celebrate the bright colours of autumn with lilies and Chinese lanterns

Harvest Moon

Fold a fine twig wreath in half to create a moon shaped armature

On Pumpkin Coloured Days

Create a besom broom to sweep up those Autumn leaves

Those B00OOOoootunias though!

Add something dark and suspicious to your petunias for a fun Halloween display

Haerfest

Rooting clematis cuttings in a harvest wreath basket

As light as a super thankful pumpkin

Create a almost wreath floral display that is light and airy... looking like it was just harvested.

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.

All Pumpkind Out

A physalis husk pumpkin to celebrate the last bright rays of Autumn.

Ahead

Oh my... a corn leaf mummy head for autumn... looking ahead to Halloween styling.

Overgrown S-Autum-mer Swirl

Designing for somewhere not still summer not yet autumn weather...

Gratitude

A minimal Thanks Giving design that is a modern take on a wreath

Blowing this way and that

Craft an arch armature to display those early autumn treasures.

It’s butter… nuts!

An it's not too early to decorate for Autumn, Autumn design

Magic Spell Number 614: How to make absolutely any task you need to do fun

A hint of a wreath table top design for pre-Halloween decorating.

Let’s circle around to this one

Create a floral circlet to rest the little pumpkin on... but above the water line.

This season all the stylish pumpkins will be wearing them!

A simple way to keep the plastic mesh the pumpkins are sold in from becoming trash: wrap it around the container as an armature for a quick Fall design. Replace the flowers as they fade and top up the water as needed.

The circle of making new things:

A wreath armature design for early Autumn... this takes the split armature Tutorial I showed you last month a little bit further.

As pumpkins do this time of year

Hanging pumpkins and tiny vases to create a Autumn mobile floral design.

A Round

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

Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum Design: the Floral Hour glass was made as part of my wax series