October  has been a busy month  with weddings and the lovely Samantha  married Andy  in Tunbridge wells and the theme was "Romance" with freedom roses and pretty foliage's. Samantha carried a bouquet of  red freedom roses and the bridesmaids  carried a hand tied designs of  avalance roses . The table designs were red freedom roses in  glass vases  with aspidistra  collars .

In September I headed off to sunny Spain to demonstrate  for the  Torrejevas  flower club near to Alicante  and  had a lot of  fun with lovely ex pats who all have a love of everything flowery.
The day after I returned from Alicante I boarded a plane  for Belgium and spent two fab days  book signing for  Fluer Creatife at the  fabulous Alden Biesen show.

 July and August were  such glorious months  filled with warm sunny days and  some really lovely weddings of friends of the family.  Tessa  was married  to Adam at the beautiful and historical  Chiddingstone  Castle  here in Kent and her vintage look  was so soft and pretty and delicate set against the  imposing interior of the castle. The sun shone all day and it was one of the prettiest  ones I have done in my career as a floral designer .

Jonathan married his  beautiful Brazilian bride  in August with the  ceremony being held  in the stunning Tonbridge  Boys School  chapel  here in Kent. Fusing the two different nationalities together and interpreting their wishes was exciting and creatively a dream wedding .
 The chapel, although full of  beauty in its décor looked stunning with typical English  pedestals and fabric to soften the look.
 Back at the reception at the family home  set amongst  acres of beautiful gardens, we created  a real  HOT party look within the marquee and brought the two nationalities together as one.

July  2013.
 So, for the last 6 weeks I  have actually been  here in the UK enjoying the  sunshine and working on up and  coming projects. Having had a  heavenly  2 week break  in the beautiful  city  Vancouver visiting friends and  then heading off to  the  HOT and  hectic  Symposium for AIFD that was held in  Las Vegas  this year its been great to catch my breath and head to places  here in the UK I have not been to  for a long time .

Hampton court was  just AMAZING and the first time for me  as a visitor. The RHS certainly know  how to host a gardening show and  it was  fun to promote my book with demo's and book signings.

 Two days later  I headed to Bournemouth and I  had a fun filled  two days  with the  Fusion  flower team promoting  my book and  catching up with  friends from the  flower arranging  world.

 Last week I headed for  Tatton Park  in Manchester for the RHS and stayed at a lovely B&B and really enjoyed the flower show in-between book signing and demonstrating  again .

Next trip is in September and I will be boarding a  plane to Alicante to spend time with flower lovers  from the UK  for a week of  sun, fun and a  flower demo on Wednesday 18th  followed by  a trip to Alden Biesen, Bilzen  to the  Fleuramour show  on September 21st where I will be signing my books . Exciting times ..

June 12th 2013 .
 Just had two fun days teaching at the Paula Pryke flower school in London with really great students.
Paula  has an amazing school and certainly  knows how to deliver a great programme .  Its great to be back in London and back on the freelance circuit .
I'm available for  any freelance work from the 6th July  should you know of  anyone looking for  a qualified fun teacher / team member  for  any event's/weddings  during the busy summer  season..

In May, I headed to Chelsea  flower show to share my book with RHS members and the flower loving public and it was great to  see it for sale on the  shelves of the RHS gift shop .I spent 2 hours  talking and signing books for  visitors.

I'm heading up to Birmingham on Thursday 13th June  for a repeat show at the BBC Gardeners live show and hopefully be spotting some stars.

June  2013
So its  been a while since I last added anything on here and thought it was about time I  shared all that  has happened  and is happening in the life of  this floral designer.

March .. Fresh Floral Jewelry is  official launched in the USA  at the Philadelphia  flower  show.

               I flew out  to Philadelphia  to work as a flower team designer  with  Bill and Kris  Schaffer on the Philadelphia  flower show for Schaffer  designs  and helped  to  create "Jack". the ripper   and  bring their design idea to life ,winning the coveted "best in show " award again for the 5th year  18.000 stems of  flowers were used in the exhibit and designers came in from all over the States and Canada


My first ever book was launched at the show and  it was spine tingling to see it on a book shelf  in a gift shop being sold.


    

My book arrives in the UK . A very proud Dad (in law )