1. Thanks to both my Granny and my Mum, I am a passable - though untrained in any formal sense - flower arranger. (My only qualification is the guide Flower Arranger badge!)
2. I've been a member of St Mary in Charnwood Church, Nanpantan, since I was five...over forty years to date.
I'm not sure when the two came together, if I'm honest, but for years now I've been helping to provide flower arrangements for church services as well as special festivals and weddings. Flower Festivals - filling the church with displays linked to a theme - were always done by 'proper' Flower Arrangers, usually a local Flower Club who were invited in to decorate the church.
All that changed around Christmas 2002; we'd decorated the church on a theme of Christmas carols, and the response was so positive, we were asked to organise a full Flower Festival the following year.
In the space of eight months, we did it. August 2003 was 'Stories from the Old Testament', and we haven't looked back since, holding a Flower Festival every three years thereafter except for our 125th Anniversary Festival, which was brought forward by a year to be an anniversary event.
On this site you'll find pages for each of our festivals where you can see photos of the arrangements, whereas the blog itself will follow our planning for the 2016 festival as well as other bits and pieces you might find interesting about the wider aspects of flower arranging in our church.
I hope that what you find here will encourage you - if you don't already - to maybe hold your own flower festival or try something a bit different in your own place of worship. And if you're here just to look at the flowers and enjoy God's beautiful creation, I hope you enjoy what's shared.
Katherine
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| St Mary - from 'A Tapestry of Time' - 2013 |
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