What’s been occurring at CCF HQ since September?

It’s been busy! I’ve managed to catch up with wedding quotes and am pleased with conversion rates although slightly bemused but thrilled that 2024 bookings are catching up with 2023 bookings.  Subscription flower deliveries continue but  will finish in December with a Christmas door wreath and restart next April.  Customers are now able to order these or gift vouchers online thanks to my spanking new website so far it seems to be  simplifying the admin at my end.

The house is dripping with dried flowers, many of which are for sale on the website.  I’m also really excited to be making them available at my first workshop of the year: dried flower wall wreaths or flower clouds! This is probably the most cost effective way of people getting hands on a huge variety of dried flowers and I’ve been spending the dark evenings peeling honesty seed heads. A very satisfying but time consuming job.

Christmas wreath workshops are a sell out again (woop) and the village hall is already reserved for next  year. A few places are still available on Norah’s Christmas themed Willow Weaving sessions.  If I wasn’t leading my own workshop I’d be there!  I’ll be spending the next week collecting and storing foliage (berried holly is already cut and out of the birds’ reaches).  Foliage is coming from various sources including a local eucalyptus grower. I’ve been resourceful and hoping that a red velvet curtain bought at a vintage market in Stroud will look the business on the wreaths when I’ve cut it into ribbons.  I’ve got tick lists everywhere. Cakes have been ordered from Lillie B’s,  British Twool has arrived, Somerset willow is soaking, pine cones, teasels and dried seed heads and flowers have been collected and sorted for each group.  I love the fact that the wreaths are fully compostable. I’ve even known of birds roosting or nesting in them during the summer months when placed somewhere suitable after Christmas.