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Creativity and foraging – a brief study of a seaside walk and attention recovery theory.

I recently went away for the weekend with a friend of mine, we headed of to Rye and also went down to the seaside at Dungeness. You feel like you might fall of the edge of the country and its all a bit apocalyptic but we spent an hour wandering along the coastline foraging for…

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The Health Benefit of Flowers

growing flowers

Can flowers help us with self-care? I always considered myself lucky to be able to run a business and do a job that I love and during this month of January I guess there is a lot more talk about resolutions, making sure we taking care of our mental health and trying to improve how…

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Making a non-traditional door wreath.

Yellow Christmas door wreath

Now don’t blame me but we painted our front door bright yellow, so this year I decided to throw any idea of a traditional red and green door wreath out the window and go different! Before you start reading you might want to check out the actual colour of the door so click here… My…

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Young Blooms Christmas gift guide

We’ve not done this before, so we thought we should! 🙂 Finding the perfect present for friends and family can we hard so we thought we’d have a go at collating some of our favourite things if your into our sort of flower filled world. We recently discovered the wonderful world of willow weaving and…

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Benefits of learning a new skill

It is another new week and we are looking forward to our flower workshops starting for the Christmas season. I wonder though, if you’ve thought about the benefits of learning a new skill? Put aside finding the perfect Christmas present, See what you think of these following points and whether they could be applied to…

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Elmhay wedding

I couldn’t resist sharing this wedding on the blog. Georgina & Jack got married a week ago at Elmhay park, we’ve done a number of weddings there before and its a fabulous space to decorate. The colour palette for the day was soft creams, peaches and pops of oranges which was perfect for this time…

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Create your own summer door wreath

Diy summer door wreath, wiltshire

As we finally seem to be hitting our stride with summer sun, I needed a new door wreath for our front door so thought this would be a good time to talk through how you can make a simple wreath for your door too. As always I wanted to make a sustainable wreath that didn’t…

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A floral table-centre for the summer

table flowers, summer wedding

I had a friend come put some shelves up in my workshop this week and whilst he was working I thought i’d have a go at this project that I’ve been thinking about for a while. Bare with me as I begin to show the process of this design. When it comes to creating wedding…

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Wrapping flowers part 3

Wrapping a bouquet, wiltshire florist

I’ve always had an interest in how bouquets of flowers are wrapped, it was one of the first things I learnt in my first flower shop job and I think the algorithm has learnt of my interest too! 🙂 One thing I lack at the moment is access to prettier paper for this exercise but…

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A little Summertime craft project

summer craft project

I thought I’d have a go at something a bit different this week. Schools are finished for the summer term and this might be a nice little project to keep the kids busy with…. Step One: Roll your ball of modeling clay out and use the cookie cutter to cut out circle. Obviously make sure…

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