FLORAL INDULGENCE ALERT! The Gypsophila Wreath and Flower Crown

                      SIMPLE, BUT BEAUTIFUL – A GYPSOPHILA WREATH & FLOWER CROWN   Follow these simple steps to create an elegant bohemian style Baby’s Breath wreath, you can also use this technique to make a simple bridal floral crown – you’ll only need 5 – 7 stems to make a crown, available from a florist at roughly €3 per stem. Using Oasis Bindwire, which is covered with a fine brown…

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SUMMER INTO AUTUMN…

“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.” Sarah Helen Power Whitman   August rounds the corner into Autumn. Early summer flowers begin to turn to seed, and fruits are set and ripening on the bough. You can feel it in the mornings, the cooler dewy air bringing a sharp autumnal vibrant tone to flowers and plants – greens begin to yellow, and fields of grasses turn…

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GO WITH THE SLOW

  The ‘Slow Movement’ began during the late eighties, when Carlo Petrini protested against the opening of a McDonalds restaurant in the Piazza di Spagna, Rome. It spawned a cultural movement and a revolution opposed to the view that faster is always better, and Carl Honore’s 2004 book, In Praise of Slowness, first explored how the Slow philosophy might be applied in every field of human endeavour and coined the phrase “slow movement” and it describes…

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