Flower Guild Grand Workshop and presentation

Hello everyone, The Festive season is fast approaching and we will be holding out Grand Workshop, on Saturday 23^rd November, 10.30am in St Nicholas church Entrance fee £3.00 to include coffee and cake.

This is our biggest workshop of the year when the money we raise will go towards the Christmas Festival Flowers so please bring your friends and families along to support us and enjoy a morning of festive fun with flowers. We will be having homemade cakes a sales table selling all sorts of bits and pieces for your Christmas decorations as well as a raffle, so please bring your money along.

I am delighted to tell you  that  Heather Marshall has kindly offered to come along and demonstrate a Christmas table centre, you will get two for the price of one as I will demonstrate a Christmas Swag, the recipe for both will be at the end. 

Table arrangement recipe

• You will need a container the size of a fruit bowl, could be a basket without any handles, a

bowl or even a casserole dish.

• 3 Pillar candles or 3 tall dining candles in a colour to compliment your flowers or container.

• A bunch Roses

• A selection of foliage about 10 stems

• 3 - 6 stems of Tree Ivy

• 6 Pine Cones

• 3 x Twigs could be in a colour to match your candles or flowers or natural.

. Floral foam

Recipe for a Christmas Swag

This has become very popular over the past few years to hang on your door or to put outside on a grave or even made double ended as a table design, although very simple and easy to make the mechanics need to be very stable.

A shovel (as we call them as it is the same shape) this with foam may be purchased

Foam to fill ,

A selection of evergreen foliage , for example spruce holly  ivy  not conifer as this goes soft over time. There will also be spruce to buy by the piece .

A few fir cones orange slices cinnamon sticks ribbon or anything you would like to decorate it with .

Both Heather and I will be there to help you, we will look forward to welcoming you and to a happy morning.