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Discover helpful tips for anyone who is or aspires to be a freelance floral designer. Learn how to market yourself, how to build up your resume, the importance of knowing how much time it takes you to create arrangements, and what you should charge. Also in this episode, hear from floral designer Tobey Nelson as she and Kelly talk sustainability in your floral business.
In this highlight, discover the stem counts, mechanics, and transport methods for a gorgeous, flowing boho arbor with pampas grass for a wedding ceremony.
Mabel Maposa of Mabel M Florals is joining us all the way from Cape Town, South Africa! She is passionate about conducting her floral business sustainably and is sharing what is in her foam-free floral design toolbox!
There has been a visible shift to sustainable floral design over the past decade—which has left many experienced designers who were classically trained with floral foam to become overwhelmed with anxiety. Don’t fret! In this article, learn some steps and ideas that can help make the transition easier.
Discover 9 was to incorporate sustainable practices into your floral business. Not only are these environmentally-minded changes beneficial to our planet, but they will help set your blooms apart!
Marla Bixler of Bixler Blooms joins Kelly on this episode of the podcast! With years of experience in the floral industry, Marla has much knowledge to share. She’s starting by chatting about rebranding and how to know whether this avenue is right or needed in your business.
Paula Pryke is a world-renowned designer, teacher, and author, and she’s joining Kelly on the podcast to chat about falling out of love with the floristry business and how her career has transformed through the years!
Are you looking for ways to create a wedding arbor without floral foam? This article gives you a supply list and step by step guide to designing a wedding arbor foam-free!
Ready to make a cheerful modern basket flower arrangement? This one is perfect for an outdoor summer picnic or BBQ. If you want a large floral arrangement to put on the ground of your outdoor buffet table or in front of your door to greet guests as they arrive for a summer brunch, then this design is for you! You can’t go wrong with a big basket filled with beautiful flowers.
Large floral installations can be intimidating, especially when it comes to the mechanics behind them. In this article, you’ll learn how to build a base structure for your floating arbor and the mechanics behind a foam-free floral design. This step by step guide to creating a foam-free floating wedding arbor shows you large installations can be more straightforward that you might imagine!
I’m excited to share my moss roulade technique with you! It’s my go-to base for a foam-free flower spray, and I use it for the majority of the wedding arbors I make because it's a versatile and easy technique (one that is even reusable!).
I’m designing on a windowsill using rocks and chicken wire. I love chicken wire! Not only is it moldable to various shapes, but it’s also a multi-use product (so you can use it more than once). I’m using dill and bupleurum as my base for this installation.
After a long and winding road, I find myself an adult—a professional studio florist, an organic micro flower farmer, and a professor of Forestry and Range Management in the Central Valley of California. You might say that I have a bias toward sustainability, and I try whenever possible to keep my impact on the earth as light as I can. However, I also have to balance my affinity for eco-conscious floral design with the ability to provide high end, high impact design for my bridal clients, whatever the conditions.
Summer's bounty gives us rich sunset tones and beautiful dahlias to enjoy. In this tutorial, we'll be creating a large-scale, foam-free summer floral arrangement in an urn that transitions from shades of dark rust and orange to warm golden yellows and earthy creams. Once the warmth of summer has left us, this step-by-step floral arrangement lesson can easily be applied to any season with available flowers.
With an ever-increasing installation trend in weddings and event work, as well as the emphasis on foam-free floral designs, I was eager to figure out a way to create a ground installation, or living meadow, with foam-free mechanics that offered flexibility in multiple installation scenarios. There are so many options for foam-free installation mechanics out there, but this is the method that worked well for me. Hopefully, you will find it useful—or maybe it will provide you with a starting point for additional foam-free floral designs!
