It was in the summer of 2018 that I found out that I would be part of the team of Holly Chapple, to create designs for the fashion show at the fantastic annual flower event Fleuramour, which takes place at a very old castle Alden Biesen in the province of Limburg in northeastern Belgium. For […]

  photo: Susan McLeary It was such an honor to be invited to participate at the yearly event Fleuramour. For the 24th year this spectacular flower show took place at the  spectacular castle Alden Biesen in Belgium. Super talented designers from over 20 different countries created brilliant installations in the many rooms of this castle […]

A year an a half ago Pieter Toebaert, who organizes Flower Time invited me to participate in this magnificent flower event that takes place every other year at city hall in Brussels. It was such an honor and the experience was simply extra ordinary. Pieter suggested that I would make botanical botanical dresses, headpieces and […]

First photo shoot with baby Oak and his dad Ryan Bear and let’s not forget their puppy Star!

Oak’s vest, covered with silverleaf and decorated with textures and ripsalis, was Ryan’s when he was about 1 year old. Fun to keep baby clothes in the family and then transform them with botanicals!

Thank you Theresa Bear for another great concept and for the fabulous pictures!

A couple of months ago, photographer Ted Mishima introduced me to Nina Nightshade. I had seen pictures of a photo shoot that they had done together where she was wearing the most incredible raven’s head. I found out that her husband had made this masterpiece for her to wear at some of her burlesque shows. […]

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Last year I taught a 3 day workshop in  Sweden. In the fall  Minna Mercke organized a wonderful workshop ( and was also the photographer) at the sublime flower/plant shop Gullvivans  in Lidingo near Stockholm. One of the students, Thordis  was from Iceland and she told me that she wanted to host a workshop this […]

Curly pieces of bark: I love incorporating them in so many designs! Woodland headpiece decorated with digiplexus, succulents, money plant, wire fern, seedpods of allium, acer and shrimp plant; dichlostemma, smoke bush, carpinas, boronia, mini strawberry plants,… Photos: Ted Mishima Model: Myranda Reese

Yesterday we did a super fun photo shoot. Ted Mishima favors doing shoots near old industrial buildings. Sisters Azelle and Delphine Chang were our fabulous models. They also are fabulous ballerinas and after the shoot they did a fun short dance while wearing the botanical headpieces – Great idea Ted! For Azelle’s hat I used […]

Recently I received the pictures that were taken during the 6 day workshop at Cohim in Beijing. Students made purses, headpieces, shoes, jewelry and botanical dresses as well as woodland centerpieces and bouquets, wreaths and framed designs. On the last day they worked in teams and created gorgeous woodland circular archways. As always, the students […]