Bel's Life Skill: Christmas Table Centrepiece

Last month I signed up for my second instalment of what I term lifeskills.

*Drumroll*

I signed up to make a Christmas table centre piece at the same flower school which I went to before. This to me was more fun than my first experience. People really do make a difference as I found out. Judith herself saw me and said "Have you been here before? Oh aren't you from Singapore?" Wow what a good memory she has!

This time round, we had 7 students and all were chatty and friendly. Plus we had a student Molly who was working for a magazine and she was tasked to write down her experience at this course. She even had a dedicated photographer taking photos of the class as it progressed.

No joke, this is the link and you might just well spot a teeny weeny me in two of the pictures wearing my blue dress

http://www.grosvenorlondon.com/the-chronicle/issue%2012%20dec%202014/we%20try-flower%20arranging/

Molly has written it very well so you may read her article and look at my pictures!

Beautiful stuff to go into the centrepiece

Tied them together using wires

And so it started. The greens go in first.

Judith the master showing us how it's done

And in goes the roses. Slowly coming together...

The lady on the right is actually the journalist Molly

More or less done! Just need to add in the dried orange slices and pine cones.

And yes it's done and I was beaming with excitement

All of us said "Wow didn't know we could come up with something like that!"

A beaming Bel

We arranged them in line for the magazine photographer

And a class photo

So glad I went - learnt something new and made a new friend that night!

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