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Flower arranging - any tips on where to start?
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Hi I have just signed up to a city and guilds floristry course as I want to do floristry as a career. It is one evening a week and I will be a mature student (33)!!!. I will hopefully get work experience in a florist a few hours a week and give my arrangements I do at college to family members , school , church & library. Am really looking forward to it and will really get in to it when you leave school you go in to what you fancy at the time and for me its different now, I will appreciate this oppertunity. Hopefully make a business from it x
I advise anyone else to go for it too2012 - Emergency savings fund goal by December 2012 £3000.000 -
I've found a short course - a 3 week taster for £25 - and I've booked myself on to that. If I get on with it ok and like the tutor I'll do the 12 week course afterwards
I'll probably be seen on council rounabouts looking for greenery too as we live in the centre of town and have a tiny garden.
Good luck teacup, sounds like you are on the right track with your new career, I think it must be nice to spend all your working days with flowers and being creative. I'm just coming to the end of a 3.5 year course which will enable me to change career and work for myself. Can't wait till I'm qualified! That's why I don't want to commit to a long flower arranging course at the moment - I must make sure I get my case studies etc done so I can qualify. Then I can gradually wean myself off the office job!0 -
Hi the course is 24 weeks and is only 4 hours a week, which is nice , their is a chance to go and do the next level too. Cant wait. It sounds like you have worked very hard with your course , well done for sticking with it .
I am so excited about starting and doing work and creating things!:beer:2012 - Emergency savings fund goal by December 2012 £3000.000 -
check out this website www.jane-packer.co.uk she does some amazing arrangements and runs various one day courses, lots of inspiration:T2012 - Emergency savings fund goal by December 2012 £3000.000
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What a lovely website, I would love to receive one of her bouquets. Will have to drop some hints to Mr Hugmuffin! Love the box of roses it is so sweet. I see she also does a dvd and has written several books. Thanks.
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managed to get work experience in flower shop !!!!!!!!!!!2012 - Emergency savings fund goal by December 2012 £3000.000
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miffyhugmuffin wrote: »Thanks for the encouragement paddy's mum and the advice about oasis. I went down to the local adult education college this arvo for some info on courses. They do a 12 week course but it's £100 (plus cost of flowers), so I will have to have a think about it!
Seakay, I really like the japanese designs and my secret ambition is to graduate to this style, I was thinking I should master the basic traditional western styles first, but I might be brave and experiment a little particularly if I can reduce my flower budget doing japanese designs. Did you have an interest in western flower arranging first?
All the best
MHM
Just realised that I very rudely did not reply to you - my only excuse is that this thread must have gone off the front page and I only check through every now and again. Anyway, in answer to your question I had no interest in flower arranging before going on the Ikebana course beyond sticking bunches from walks or the garden into jars. The only flower arranging that I knew of was those huge pyramid types which were used to decorate the church, and which I was sure would be quite beyond me because my Mum said that she couldn't do them.
The only real expense which the style generated for us was the purchase of a couple of pinholders and flatish 'bowls' but you can use oasis, or sellotape stuck in a grid over glass, or bits of twig wedged into vases to hold other things up. Collecting pepples, shells and wood, ivy and other leaves for the base cover (or earth level) added interest to walks in the country and along the beach when on holiday.0 -
Just remembered - second hand/charity shops can be a good source of containers for flower arranging - pop in regularly and keep an eye out for interesting deep plates and shallow bowls as well as vases and with luck you will pick something up for pence. If the shape is good but the colour or glaze is no good then consider using up a bit of gloss paint or car spay paint on your bargain.0
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