Ribbon works for opening ceremony

Below is a spherical ribbon which is commonly used for opening ceremony. I had learn how to do this today. It is not very easy to make one especially if it had more loops!

Hand bouquet for Samantha

Its my company's industrial attachment student's 21st birthday party today. My colleagues and I were invited to her party. We shared the cost and bought a few presents for her, including this hand bouquet which my colleagues had asked me to arrange for her. This is the hand bouquet which I had specially done for our birthday girl, Samantha!

Flowers and foliage used are rose, nosa, alstroemeria, erica, salah and onion leaves.

A table arrangement using exotic flowers

I helped my instructress to do a table arrangement. Flowers like wild flowers, cybidium, geberas, nosa, cornus berry and salah leaves were used.

My instructress wanted this arrangement to look big; something like console arrangement. I think it will suits places like hotel reception, lobbies and buffet tables.

Free form console table arrangement.

It does not have a specific shape to go accordingly,this design look very simple yet very modern. Its size can be quite big and can be placed on reception tables, buffet tables.

Flowers and foliage used are rose, badanas, cornus berry, songhum, pine leaf.

Demo

by me

Box design for opening ceremony

In my previous lesson, I did a opening ceremony design using a steel stand. This time, I had learnt how to arrange the opening ceremony design using a box stand.

A long cardboard box and a rectangular basket is needed and they have to wrapped with colour paper. Opening ceremony designs should look very big and grand. The overall feel of the design is different when the same floral arrangement is put on different colour boxes.

My instructress told me to do a design by my own while she demo to another student. I tried and plus a little corrections by my instructess, the bottom 2 picture were completed by me.

Demo (Brown box)

(Demo) Green box

By me

By me (Red box)

Arrangement without songhum

The flowers and foliage used are geberas, rose, eustoma, cornus berry, rainforest, songhum

Steel stand for opening ceremony

This is my 1st time to work on an opening ceremony arrangement. Steel stand arrangement is one of a kind.

By another student

Demo

By me

Floral fruit arrangement

It has been a long time since I had taken lesson. There are many distractions for the past few month. Finally I had taken 2 proper lessons today.

This is a floral fruit arrangement. It uses fruit and flowers to make up the arrangement.

Demo

By me!
Top view
lower level view

Greenthumbs event @ East Coast Park

This event was organised by National Parks Board. It launches the new certification system via workforce skills qualifications body.

My fellow classmates and myself attended this event mainly to take part in the floral arrangement competition. This was my first time taking part in a floral arrangement competition. My main objective is not to win but to gain experience in competition and see what other floral arrangers create in their arrangements.

There were 2 designs that had to be done: a hand bouquet and a table arrangement. We were given a set of flowers to use for each design and have to complete in one hour for each.

I was quite lost when I first saw the flowers given to me and I did not know how I should create each design. Trial and error a few times before I created something. These are the designs which I had completed.

The photo below was the winner's floral arrangement. I'm impressed with his works.

Table arrangement practice pieces

Another catergory for the competition will be table arrangement. Therefore we also practice them.

My arrangement

My classmate's arrangement

Hand Bouquet practice pieces

We will will be participating a floral arrangement competition next Saturday. There are catergories in this competition. One will be on hand bouquet. We went for practice today for our competition.

My bouquet 1

My bouquet 2

My bouquet 2 (Side view)

My classmate's bouquet( Side view)

My classmate bouquet

A call from Workforce development agancy (WDA)

I received a call from WDA this afternoon for my certificate collection ceremony. She informed me that it will be in September.

I'm not very sure which cert I will be collecting. Is the the cert for workplace, safety and health course organised by my school which I attended last Saturday. Or, is is for my floral exams which I had taken?

Anyway, I will know when I go there. She also added if I am interested to be interviewed by the media that day. I was very surprised and lost. I replied to her that I was still unsure because I am not very confident to speak in front of the media. However I would also like to have a chance to experience what was like to be interviewed.

I think this will be an exciting event for me. If media comes to interview me that day, I think I will try. There will always be 1st time.

Bridal Exams over!

I havd been busy preparing my bridal floral exams for the past month and its now finally over!
Here are some of the exam pieces which I had done. I feel that this exam is the most difficult exam among the 3 exams which I had taken.

Wire Bouquet

Wrist corsage, pin corsage and head piece

Bridal Car

Round Hand bouquet