Waverley Floral Art

Demonstrations

waverleyfloralart — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:28:10 +0000

Our president Noreen along with CheGon and Haeztra were invited to demonstrate at the October monthly meeting of the Waverley Garden Club. Noreen did a modern arrangement with red waratahs and bark followed by an European arrangement with roses, lotus pods and dried palm leaves.
Chegon used a pumpkin as a container and filled it with yellow proteas, leucodendrons, pink boronias and ferns. She also did a parallel arrangement with red anthuriums and heliconias on a base covered with geralton wax and fragrant geranium leaves.
Haeztra made a crescent shape by weaving cordyline foliage and added red camellias and begonias. For the second design she had covered 2 round wooden containers with Nori sheets and placed pink sim carnations in between them and on top.

Vermont Floral Art Group had invited our president Noreen and committee member Linda as demonstrators for their monthly November meeting. Noreen used green Midellino sticks in a loop with green Hosta leaves and white lilies in one design. Next she covered a silver structure with red roses and anthuriums. For the third design she used pink Midellino sticks woven through a mesh and placed an oasis ball covered with leaves and decorative beeds. A few purple orchids and pink gerberas completed the stunning design.
Linda made a horticultural handbag, hat, necklace, shoes and a cute puppy so creatively.
The slide show below shows some of the designs.
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October 2011 Meeting

waverleyfloralart — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:55:12 +0000

On the 18th of October 2011 members of Ashburton, BoxHill, Brighton and Vermont floral art groups joined us to celebrate our 49th birthday. We are very grateful to Nicole Gibson, head of Marjory Milner School of Floristry who delighted us all with a wonderful demonstration using amazing structures.Click to view slideshow.

August/September Meetings

waverleyfloralart — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:56:08 +0000

On the 16th of August we had our Annual General Meeting which was well attended. We are grateful to Waverley Garden Club member Nancy Gray for chairing our meeting. We welcomed Jo White as a new committee member. After the AGM, our president Noreen gave us cane kits and Haeztra showed us how to make twirly cane structures with them which could be used for ‘Swirl and Twirl’ entries at the upcoming show.
At our September meeting Jenny and Linda introduced us to an international guest ‘Dolly Parton’. It was a fun filled floral surprise as they showed us a horticultural frock complete with belts, handbags, necklaces, earrings, bracelet, shoes and a parasol accompanied by a cat and a dog.
The images below show the frock, the cat, necklace and a pair of shoes along with some of the bench work entitled ‘Using a Structure’ and ‘Decorated Parcel of wired work’ at the September meeting.

July 2011 Meeting

waverleyfloralart — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:13:12 +0000

On a cold winter’s night most of us gathered to learn about staging entries for the Camellia Show.
Some of us put up entries on the bench for items from the show schedule and Wendy gave us creative criticism so that we can improve on them. Noreen, Barb and Jenny demonstrated some other items from the schedule and gave us lots of valuable tips and advice.
Check out the Camellia Festival 2011 page on this website for the show schedule.
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June Workshop

waverleyfloralart — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:22:12 +0000

Our president Noreen led us through a contemporary workshop at our June meeting. In spite of the cold weather most of us turned up and learnt new techniques. Some of the designs are shown below.
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May/June 2011 Meetings

waverleyfloralart — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:47:34 +0000

We were very fortunate to have 3 very talented ladies from the Vermont Floral Art Group demonstrate at our May meeting. We are thankful to Myrna, Marion and Barbara who thrilled us all by their floral creations. For bench work we had “Mother’s day posy in a bridie holder” and “Decorated Bottle” for wired work. (see below for photos).

On the 6th of May we had the Waverley Garden Club’s 50th birthday celebration dinner. Our president Noreen did a great job creating two magnificent pedestal arrangements for the hall while our secreatary Elizabeth made pretty table napkin holders in the shape of a leaf. The floral centre pieces made with sticks and candles were very stylish and an enjoyable night was had by all. (Pictures are up on the Photo Gallery page).

Congratulations to our very own Beth who was awarded the 2011 Minister of Health award for 10 years of Volunteer work. She is a worthy recipient of this unique award for her tireless work at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

At our next meeting Noreen will show us a contemporary design done by Hitomi Gilliam at the ‘Floral Rendezvous 2010′ workshop in Perth last September. We will learn new techniques taught by Hitomi. Please bring the following for this workshop.
Plain trough-like square container approximately 24 cm long, 10-14 cm deep.
Wet floral foam block to fit and be raised above the rim approx 2 cms.
4 bamboo stakes approx 45 cm high
6 aspradista leaves
3 – 4 tall liliums, arum lilies, green goddess lilies.
Bunch of roses, carnations, large headed chrysies, mini gerberas.
Some small flowers. eg. small chrysies, berries, succulents.
Trailing mateirial. eg. jasmine, fern, willow.
Tools – eg. Wires, cutters, paper covered wires for tying.
See you all on the 21st June for this exciting workshop.
Don’t forget the bench work – Line arrangement and corsage.

April 2011 Meeting

waverleyfloralart — Mon, 16 May 2011 11:09:53 +0000

At the April meeting we had a Biedermeier workshop led by Noreen. We all learnt how to make these circular, classic, formal and compact designs by arranging various plant material – flowers, foliage and fruits in various groups and patterns to form areas of different texture and colour as shown below.
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April Workshop

waverleyfloralart — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:27:02 +0000

We had our annual workshop in April at the Burwood Heights Uniting Church hall.
Noreen and Jenny showed us how to do contemporary designs with cane and wires whilst Elizabeth showed us a traditional Dorothy Paul plate.
Some of the church ladies also joined us and we all learnt new techniques whilst having fun making our own unique arrangements.
A big thank you to our three talented ladies for leading the workshop.
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Guess Who?

waverleyfloralart — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:46:31 +0000

For our March meeting we welcomed visitors from other clubs for the Impose night titled Guess Who?
Our president led us through the history of Floral Art and gave us clues to what Ria, Alicja and Noreen were demonstrating while we had fun guessing who the original floral artists were. Ria charmed us with her beautiful traditional design of Julia Clements. Alicja did three lovely modern designs of Pamela Hailstone and Noreen concluded with some fabulous contemporary designs of Gregor Lersh.

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Bling Night

waverleyfloralart — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:22:15 +0000

At our first meeting for the year, we had a bling night which was full of fun.
Our very own president Noreen showed us a new wiring technique using 3 kinds of wires and we made bracelets which we could also use as structures in our floral designs.

At our last meeting for 2010, we had the Christmas breakup party with Kris Kringle and a delicious supper. Ria showed us how to make tear ribbon bows for wrapping presents. Jenny and Linda showed us how to make a unique Christmas Brooch. As shown in the slideshow below we had fun making and wearing them.Click to view slideshow.