Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Give small test tubes long legs to stand on
If drops of water gets sprayed onto cut flower heads (like here on these Pasque Flower seed heads) it can get trapped deep between the petals and create the ideal environment for Botrytis spores to germinate causing premature spoiling of the flowers
Make a half-moon shaped armature to fill with flowers
Creating a good quality armature makes it effortless for you to replace flowers, as they fade, with fresh blooms for an ever changing and long lasting floral design.
Glue fall leaves to sticks to make small pumpkins
Fresh passion fruit vines are coiled to create a tray.
Weave a sphere from grass
Glue a radiating armature from stir-sticks.
Skeletonized leaves can be shaped while wet to create shapes
Remove the pulp from leaves so that only the vain framework remain
Make a small grass "propeller" by pinning blades of grass into the design
Neatly roll you ribbon to store flat in a drawer
