Saturday, August 20, 2005
How hard can it be?
Wash your minds out! Flower arranging, I mean. (See previous posts). Well, it's giving me sleepless nights at the moment.
Get a life, I hear you cry. Well, I'm on holiday, so no work to stress over, so might as well stress over something else.
I volunteered to 'help out' our Flower Club as they decorate Sledmere House for charity this August bank holiday. By helping out, I meant grunt work: passing secateurs, trimming foliage, showing appreciation, that sort of thing.
Then I get the letter - "Thank you for offering to help. Your task (and you can't refuse it) is 2 arrangements, quite tall (I'll get on to that later), green and white, flanking the main staircase. Budget £45." OMG.
"Don't worry" I was told by our 'designer', "you have some good ideas". Well, thanks. But she's basing that on my being able to copy what she does, and arrange some items, pre-chosen by someone else, into a vaguely interesting arrangement, approximating what she has already done. When you have no direction, other than "quite tall, contemporary", its quite daunting. Like Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. Where to begin? Flying Saucers? Black Jacks?
So, how hard can it be? 6 days and counting. 10 trial runs so far. The flowers are the easy bit - you can't get much for £45 these days. The mechanics are harder (thats how you get it all to stay together, for the uninitiated). My mechanics include: 2 x 3' rectangular stand, 4 x cardboard tubes 2' high, painted black, 2 x piece garden mesh, bent into semi-circle, black grasses, bright green sizal, white twigs. Sounds good, eh?
More later. Somehow I don't think I will be giving up the day job.
Get a life, I hear you cry. Well, I'm on holiday, so no work to stress over, so might as well stress over something else.
I volunteered to 'help out' our Flower Club as they decorate Sledmere House for charity this August bank holiday. By helping out, I meant grunt work: passing secateurs, trimming foliage, showing appreciation, that sort of thing.
Then I get the letter - "Thank you for offering to help. Your task (and you can't refuse it) is 2 arrangements, quite tall (I'll get on to that later), green and white, flanking the main staircase. Budget £45." OMG.
"Don't worry" I was told by our 'designer', "you have some good ideas". Well, thanks. But she's basing that on my being able to copy what she does, and arrange some items, pre-chosen by someone else, into a vaguely interesting arrangement, approximating what she has already done. When you have no direction, other than "quite tall, contemporary", its quite daunting. Like Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. Where to begin? Flying Saucers? Black Jacks?
So, how hard can it be? 6 days and counting. 10 trial runs so far. The flowers are the easy bit - you can't get much for £45 these days. The mechanics are harder (thats how you get it all to stay together, for the uninitiated). My mechanics include: 2 x 3' rectangular stand, 4 x cardboard tubes 2' high, painted black, 2 x piece garden mesh, bent into semi-circle, black grasses, bright green sizal, white twigs. Sounds good, eh?
More later. Somehow I don't think I will be giving up the day job.
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Phew! Survived. I've put two piccies in my Flickr set 'Flower Arranging'(taken at home after the event - we get to keep the flowers after).
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