In-person course
in Amersham Maker & location details

Luxury Christmas Wreath Making

Description

We would love to invite you to join us for our 7th annual luxury Christmas wreath making workshops. This year, we have pulled out all the stops and have a whole room at The Pavilion solely dedicated to embellishments, so your wreath really will be the most stunning in town! Your fabulously festive workshop will be led by one of the co-founders of Where Inspiration Blooms, either Caroline Oden or Jules Cossins. Caroline has been a member of Flowers from the Farm for many years. Flowers from the Farm is the main organisation in the UK supporting seasonal, sustainable artisan flower growers (she was also a member of their Chelsea Flower Show award winning team back in 2019), so you are in extremely safe and creative hands. Jules has been alongside Caroline in teaching wreath classes for the last 7 years... after assisting on well over 800 wreaths, she's finally feeling confident enough to go it alone! Jules is also an avid flower drier, embellishment maker, sourcer, and local forager, so you can be confident that none of the greenery on offer will have been flown into the UK. We are very much from the grown, not flown sustainable wreath brigade! All year, we have had one eye on where we can, with permission, forage the very best evergreens, ivy, and greenery to give you a huge selection of lush wreath bases. With the Pavilion being part of The Penn Estate, we are now also really fortunate to have greenery from the local garden, woodland, and hedgerows on the estate. We've had lots of excited conversations this year about what ceramic, felted, textile, and dried flower embellishments and adornments we can offer you... we had a lot of comments last year from people coming to us for the first time, about the wide selection of different 'extra bits' we had curated for the classes, so we've got a lot to live up to this year! We have also been busy sourcing a stash of second-hand Christmassy bits so that your wreath could also be saving bits from going into landfill. Since the Summer, the Where Inspiration Blooms team have also been foraging and gathering a lovely range of natural woodland materials and drying flowers, fruit and berries from our beautiful local surroundings so that we have a gorgeous array of sustainably sourced pieces to adorn your wreaths. You will be offered the chance at the start of your class to make either a fully compostable wreath (using willow hoops made by us) or a more traditional wreath using a wire hoop (which you can simply cut your greenery off to pop it in the compost and then throw away the wire in January). We will provide all the materials that you need, but we would be grateful if you could bring your own secateurs if you are able. Please do let us know in advance if this isn't possible so that we have time to source a pair for you. The space will be dressed for Christmas, the background music discreet yet atmospheric and each of our guests will be offered a wide selection of mulled brews (both alcoholic and not), teas & coffees (courtesy of local indie businesses Two Spoons and Solarbean Coffee) plus delicious festive nibbley treat. We hope to create the perfect Christmas spirit to start your festive period.