Mixed media flower design, fresh foliage and paper flowers. Now on display at Craft By The Sea ..read more

Mother’s Day is coming! Treat yourself and your mum to a flowery creative afternoon where you will be able to make something original and personal to you that you will be able to keep as a treasured keepsake. On arrival enjoy a glass of bubbly and spend a relaxing 2 hours, under Eva’s expert guidance, creating a beautiful Paper Peony flower. They are surprisingly easy to recreate in paper and they look very intricate and lush and are definite show stoppers! Once you start putting everything together you will have a beautiful Peony flower appearing before you, just like magic! To give your c ..read more

Feeling like January would be best forgotten and we could just start again in February? I have a little creative endeavour for you to get your creative juices flowing. Come and create a vision board! Explore your current life, future hopes, dreams and goals. What’s it all about!? Just having a little time for yourself, dive into some magazines, be a child for a while and glue nice pictures together. The vision board process works best if you ponder on a few questions i.e ideal lifestyle, home, work, relationship, and then leave your subconscious mind to work on its own and effortlessly bring ..read more

Too wet and warm to think about Christmas? Well.. It's nearly here! Come along to The Flower Hive's workshop to learn how to make a wreath with natural and fully biodegradable materials. We will start by 'diving' straight into the straw so that you can create your own straw base. It looks difficult but so many people who came to previous workshops found it fairly easy. The next step is creating your pretty bunches, adding dried flowers and lots of exciting foliage and twigs. From here it's just a case of putting it all together, drinking mulled vine and listening to carols..then.. voila! Your ..read more

​I was recently approached by Bryngawr Country Park in Bridgend to create a workshop which could run in their beautiful grounds and take advantage of the natural surroundings.  We came up with the idea of a “Foraged” Christmas wreath.   Those taking part would walk around the woodland and forage for beautiful botanical material. I thought of simplifying the Asymmetrical wreath design which will work really well with the wild nature of the park. All wreaths made will be fully biodegradable and it is probably the most eco wreath you will ever make (with literally zero air miles), unless you fora ..read more

Great review from talented Jakki who did the photo-documentary of the  Campanula Medium Workshop. ​Following an invite by Eva to take a part in the Flower Hive Paper Flower Workshop, I turned up in good time, full of excitement and anticipation.    The Venue was perfect, being held at Dear Doris in Penarth, a quaint little gift shop but with enough space for us comfortably to run the workshop.   The main table was beautifully laid out with a selection of wonderful paper flowers showing the end results. I must be honest I took one look and did think "mine will never look that good".  Certainly ..read more

 I am changing the direction of my business and planning new things for 2019.  I have a fabulous opportunity  to run  a paper flower workshop at the RHS Cardiff Flower Show. I am excited and looking forward to seeing some amazing creations. After a little vote, it seems that most people would like to create a daffodil and as this is very seasonal and very Welsh, what better way to start ..read more

Rummaging through images for my newsletter I found these beautiful photos from last summer's wedding at Rosedew Farm. It is so lovely to see what happens when flowers take over the garden and there is such abundance to create from! Such joy and energy in the force of nature! Amazing Photos by Grace Elizabeth Photo and Film from Lydia and Dan's whimsical wedding ..read more

Fabulous images from Rebecca and Richard's autumnal wedding. Thank you for sharing your special day and all the best for your future! Photography by Kate Adams ..read more

Need some Christmas inspiration? Come and see us at St Fagans Christmas Nights. We will be there on Wednesday 6th and Saturday 9th December from 6pm-9pm, demonstrating wreath making and showing you different techniques which you can use  to create one yourself. You will find us in the Kennixton barn. You can see more information about the night and buy tickets HERE ..read more