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Mum has such a way of putting colours and furniture and art together. Things she has bought, things she has made herself ... like the plant specimen collection in the second photo ... she just makes it all gel. One day I will move beyond my dirty ikea sofas and when I do, I certainly don’t have far to look for inspo.

I’m on a podcast. A lovely one called Hashtag Authentic by @me_and_orla (who is pictured here when she was out in Australia last year thanks to @locallovely ).
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It’s my first lengthy podcast appearance and in it, as well as overcoming my fear of being interviewed (always the interviewer, never the interviewee), we talk about the written-self versus the speaking-self, enjoying ordinary things like picking weeds from the side of the road and other more extraordinary things like @gillianbellcake .
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Thank you for having me Sara, I thoroughly enjoyed our chat. If you want to listen too the link is in my bio. #hashtagauthentic

Our floral installation class was held over two venues, with the morning session in the @old_tenterfield_church. Outside in the courtyard, the coffee machine hummed away and the farmers market stalls did their usual trade, but inside we were busy creating this incredible floating island which hung off one of the old church beams.
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@the.wilds.sydney what a triumph this was. Thank you for teaching us so much. Your work, along with dream team @puggleandsquibwildflowers , is 🔥.
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Thank you also to @littleechidnahome - a great local Tenterfield business - who supplied us with the wooden handled secateurs and to @felco_official for the leather secateur holsters so that we could feel truly professional.

Tenterfield has gone floral installation mad. I am sitting on the couch with a glass of rosé almost incredulous about what happened this weekend:
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Two fabulous Sydney florists Kitty @the.wilds.sydney and Sophie @puggleandsquibwildflowers descended on Tenterfield with their van full of flowers and drills and hooks and metal plates and copper wire and festoon lights and god knows what other wonderful things, while 12 intrepid women travelled from near and far, but mainly far, to learn about floral installations - mechanics/design - all foam free.
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The class was phenomenal. Talk about over-delivering. Kitty and Sophie showed us all of their tricks, and did so with such charm and openness and skill.
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We made three big installations, one of which was this spring-explosion-tunnel of love at @glenrockgardens (photos of others to come) .
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Somehow my mate @gillianbellcake made us the most lovely lunch and dinner (dinner was in the tunnel of love can you imagine ... sunset, candles, good wine ... the whole lot), while also ducking out west on a seven hour round trip to deliver a wedding cake ON THE SAME DAY (this woman has Mary Poppins magic in her veins).
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Meanwhile, my other mate @whitecottage_flowerfarm_ was busy creating an installation of her own (see her feed) in her shop on the other side of town.
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It’s floral fever. May it spread far and wide. Such a great gang, thanks to everyone who came.
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#tenterfield #foamfreeflowers

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