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Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

A Pocket full of Starlight

Happy New Year!

A Pocket full of Starlight floral art design

Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket

Knot a Cordyline Catcher for the Gerbera

Never let it fade away

Add a few petals and beads as New Year sparkle

Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket

Sprinkle with a few black beads

Save it for a rainy day

Gerbera Daisy

For when your troubles start multiplying

Rest the design on a bubble glass vase.

(They just might)

Black and white New Year's Eve design

It's easy to forget them without trying

Gerbera Daisy rest on a cordilyne grid

With just a pocket full of starlight...

May the best things in life be yours to hold and all the love in the world yours to share. Have a fantastic 2013!

The song Catch a Falling Star was written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss, and became a hit in 1957 performed by Perry Como

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Tutorials

31 December 2012 Knot a Cordyline Catcher

Create a rigid grid to place over a glass vase to keep flower material in place

25 September 2013 Adding beads into a design

I wanted my beads to softly float above my snowball posy. If I glued the beads to some of the flowers it would just disappear in the mass of twigs and flowers.

Favourite Flowers

Gerbera

Transvaal Daisy, Gerbera Daisy, Germini

Related Designs

23 November 2016 All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate): Another perspective

This was the third design I did in my "All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate)" floral art demonstration

30 May 2018 You see... here is the Thing:

Glue a grass snippet grid for shallow container design

7 November 2018 Grab your party mittens, flower buds… it’s Book Launch Day!

Celebrating my book launch by knotting floral mittens using the design Tutorial from my book and the template from the free gift template booklet.

7 November 2018 Book Launch Day!

Oh yes! Today is officially my book launch day!

21 July 2021 High-Strung

String up a tiny hammock for a dreamy summer vacation design

13 July 2022 Blue…

The tiniest flower adds some much needed coolness to a summer floral design.