We love Escape to the Chateau! It’s a great show on Channel 4 in which Dick and Angel Strawbridge buy and do up a French chateau. Series one covered the basic renovations of the chateau and series two, in which the couple start to earn an income from their investment, has just aired. Dick and…
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Photo shoot with dried flowers
A kitchen full of dried flower bunches I had a fun time in my kitchen the other week when photographer Thomas Skovsende came to take some pics for an article in Prima magazine. The article was written by Eimear O’Hagan for a series called “Ladies who Launch” and she did a great job of extracting all…
Support British Flowers Week!
Celebrate British Flowers Week this June British Flowers Week was initially intended for the fresh flowers industry, but I think British dried flowers have something to celebrate too! The British Flowers Week website says: “British Flowers Week is the ground-breaking campaign from New Covent Garden Flower Market to promote British flowers and foliage and the…
Dried flowers diaries August 2014
A busy month for dried flower crafts & Mums I always find August tough as a Mum of two, because I want to spend as much time as possible with the kids while they’re off school, but work doesn’t ease up. We’ve been very lucky at work in that our busy Spring has turned into…
Bearded wheat in dried flower bouquets
Processing a bunch of bearded wheat before use Bearded wheat is beautiful in a mixed dried flower bouquet Also know as Triticale, this natural dried grass adds an informal or country element to bouquets and arrangements. But each tufted dried head of corn comes with its own leaf which can look a bit untidy initially….