Top of the Class

Back en France after a fantastic couple of days in London. First stop after the delights of flying Ryanair was the fabulous brand new boutique hotel the Zetter Townhouse - I took some pictures but have a look at their website photo gallery for much better ones Zetter Townhouse Gallery

This was my first experience of staying in a 'boutique' hotel and these guys have really set the standard high. So what rocked for me at the Zetter? I would say the in room George Cloony Nespresso machine and milk frother, the hand knitted hotwater bottle cover, the cross-stitch sampler room sign and having loose tea, a tea pot and tea strainer oh and the very original interiors. And what sucked? Not having anyone to share it with. Anyway enough about hotels, the whole purpose of the trip was to attend the intensive wedding flower course at McQueens. Having arrived at McQueens nice and early prepared to meet my classmates I discovered I was the only person on the course - so not only was I getting to attend the best flower school in the country but I had two days of one-on-one tuition. First off we covered flower conditioning then onto some wired work forming buttonholes and corsages.

 

After lunch we moved on to a hand tied bouquet and wired bouquet

  

Day two started with some more practice at wired work

Next on the agenda was different styles of table centres

With the final task of the day a hand tied white rose domed bouquet (very on trend)

Leaving just enough time to have a look at the online flower ordering system for Metz.  

A big thank you to my lovely course tutor Duncan for all his advice and enthusiam, and I guess I get to boast finishing the course top of the class! (somewhat by default)