Learning, loving, living

OK, so they’re not flowers I would have chosen. But look how full & round my table arrangement is! We have to make these table arrangements over & over in school apparently, this is my second go & I’m pretty proud of it. My first one was all ragamuffin & patchy.

To anyone considering a career in floristry please know first, it’s hard! Do you know how many kinds of flowers there are? Well there’s heaps, like thousands & you have to learn them all by 2 names, botanical & common. You have tonnes of homework, you stab your fingers with wire & you have to use ugly orange chrysanthemums. BUT to me it’s all worth it. Maybe I am a little weird but I have always enjoyed work this hands on. I always loved working in organics for the same reasons I think I’m going to love floristry.

The ladies at work picked up on the fact I am somewhat of a creative genius (ha!) & one asked me to make her hat for the Melbourne Cup. What an honour, I really feel awesome that someone would place that much trust in me. She gave me the base, some scraps of fabric from her custom made suit, a hot glue gun, some dried flowers & free creative licence.

I know I am proud as punch & Jenni is wrapped with her hat (it looks gorgeous with her outfit)  What do you think of my handiwork?