Olive Can Fly

17/09/2024

New blog post on the website!

I’m in the process of designing a new website layout (it’s a SLOW process in between everything else 😂) so I’m trying to upload blogs more regularly. This one chats about how I feel about social media 😈

https://olivecanfly.com/social-media-im-all-out-of-love

16/09/2024

I’m on fire with the social media posts since I wrote a blog about how sh*te I am on socials 😂 Let’s see how long it lasts eh?

This is the large patchwork moon I made for a client last week. Available in custom colours via the website under the Moon category 🌙

Want your own in custom colours? Click the link 🖤

https://olivecanfly.com/product/large-patchwork-moon

06/09/2024

Out of office until Tuesday 10th September for our anniversary trip to Paris! 🖤

Will be celebrating 15 years with Mike by eating baguettes while wandering the streets of the city that we took our first holiday together in MANY years ago.

I’ll be back in the studio from Tuesday to crack on with commissions.

Have a fab weekend 💐

05/09/2024

Workshop Dates for Sept - Dec 2024 are now listed on the website.
More may be added depending on my schedule.

•Intro to Stained Glass•
Spend a full day in our glass studio learning the basics of stained glass and creating your own fabulous suncatcher.

•Date Night - Stained Glass Edition•
Working together as a couple you’ll create something gorgeous to take home. If you’re looking for a unique date night idea then this is for you! Price is per couple.

If you’d like to do a workshop but these dates don’t work for you then send me a message.

31/08/2024

Studio Day today to press this gorgeous natural bouquet for Lorna.

I’m back in the studio on my usual hours from next Wednesday when the kids are back in school - I’ve loved spending the summer with them but it’s been HARD juggling a studio move & their holidays while Mike has been touring constantly.

Big love to all the parents out there juggling work / life with school holidays! 🖤

Definitely looking forward to having my days back to myself so I can work through the last remaining boxes to unpack and my commissions 💐

13/08/2024

My socials are at the slowest they’ve ever been but my business has never been busier!
I’m trying to make an effort to post more but it’s fallen way down on my priorities list 😂

I’m in the studio most days finishing up the move, pressing flowers and checking presses while trying to make sure that the kids summer holidays is more than just work work work.

Today’s studio day was accompanied by some cheesy films I found on Tubi followed by Top Gun.. we’ve just had the volleyball scene 🎬

29/07/2024

These colours 😍

Another gorgeous bouquet pressed over the weekend. (This was pressed to episodes of Ted Lasso - I always have background noise on while I’m working but I only choose things I’ve seen before so I can’t get distracted 😂)

Still smack bang in the middle of the studio move. We have a LOT of stuff. Had to pause while Mike went to Belgium & Holland for 4 days but got a long few days of packing, loading out & loading in and unpacking ahead so we can be fully out of the old space by July 31st.

23/07/2024

Update..

It’s been a very busy (& stressful!) time while I’ve been juggling the busy wedding season, having the kids solo while Mike is touring and all the crap we’ve had to deal with in our current premises. I’ve barely had a minute for socials and sometimes I’ve purposely not even logged on for a bit of a break. Striving for that work / life balance.

BUT there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel 🥳

We’ve started to move into our new studio so it’s now official - we are moving to Bold Street! Beyond excited to move, if you know us IRL then you’ll know of the issues we’ve had to deal with at our premises in the Baltic and the many, many properties we’ve viewed over the last several weeks.

This is going to be a BIG move as we have to pack up a large studio over a short space of time in between Mike’s festival dates and have it all done by July 31st (and now the kids are off school too!) and get it across town to Bold Street. Challenge accepted 😂

To my lovely preservation clients: your flowers are safe and ready for the move. Once we are in and unpacked then rest assured I’ll be working through them all and as quickly as I can. This is a slow process and I’m a one woman show 😊

Potential lovely clients: I’ve got a full diary of bookings coming in over the summer and I may not be able to take anymore last minute requests while I work through those and my back log of commissions so please do book ahead to ensure that I can take your flowers.

Everyone who is due to drop off bouquets or attend summer workshops will be contacted with the new address and directions.

🖤

62a Bold Street, Liverpool L1

24/06/2024

Socials & me lately just aren’t happening.
I’m working full days in the studio pressing bouquets and working on stained glass commissions so when I finally get home I’m either too tired to post or I genuinely can’t be arsed 😂 (& I avoid all of it apart from emails and daft TikTok’s when I’m having a day off)

Things are very hectic BTS, it’s wedding season so I’ve got bouquets flying in and out along with lovely stained glass commissions to work on and workshops to run.
It’s also festival season so Mike is all over the place (last week alone he did Prague, Dublin, Liverpool, Scotland, Isle of Wight & Belgium) then he was off again at 5am this morning for more.
So I’m juggling Olive Can Fly with the house and kids and anything else that comes my way!

11/06/2024

New dates (including a Saturday afternoon!) are now live on the website for our couples stained glass workshop.

If you're looking for something fun and quirky to do in Liverpool with your other half then get in touch to book your places.

https://olivecanfly.com/product/workshop-date-night-stained-glass-edition

29/05/2024

Another day, another gorgeous wedding bouquet going into the flower presses!

This is absolutely stunning 😍

Thanks to Louise for trusting me with her beautiful flowers 💐

27/05/2024

Our next Intro to Stained Glass workshop is on Sunday 2nd June - book via the link if you’d like to join us for the day!

Intro to stained glass is a beginners class in which you will learn the basics to create your very own stained glass sun catcher. Yes, you’ll get to take it home with you at the end of the class!

22/05/2024

It’s not always about the ‘real’ flowers. Sometimes it’s about the stained glass flowers too..

Sneak peak of a commission for a gorgeous client - that’s all I’m showing for now until after her big day 💒 💐

21/05/2024

I know I’ve been banging on about these peonies from Chandlers Allerton but will you just LOOK at them!

I picked them up on Saturday and some immediately went into the flower presses. I put the rest into this gorgeous glass vase that I thrifted from Oxfam on Allerton Rd last year for a fiver (we do love a charity shop bargain!)

They’ve now burst open and look amazing! 🤩

I’ll be preserving them this afternoon to make beautiful pressed flower art with.

20/05/2024

Happy Monday!

Hope your weekend was fabulous.

Ours was spent preserving beautiful bouquets, such a lovely way to enjoy the sunshine and extend the beauty of these flowers.

Peonies, tulips, hydrangeas, roses, dahlias, and alliums are all such stunning flowers.

Here’s to more weekends filled with sunshine and beautiful blooms! 🌸🌞🌺

19/05/2024

Starting Sunday off right by pressing this gorgeous wedding bouquet for Sophie from the fab

In love with these colours! 😍

Get in touch via DM or email if you’d like your wedding bouquet pressing and preserving 💐🖤

18/05/2024

Did you know that it’s not just full bouquets we press and frame but smaller florals too?

Our flower pressing service, based at our Baltic Triangle studio in Liverpool, is completely bespoke. Whether it’s a wedding bouquet, memorial flowers or a special moment to remember someone by, we can do this for you. (Deposits differ for smaller bunches)

If you’re looking to have some flowers pressed then get in touch via DMs or website 🖤💐

16/05/2024

It’s no secret that Mike & I are not great in the garden, but the couple who owned our house before we bought it were and they left us some gems.

This Rhododendron bush in our back garden is HUGE and flowers beautifully every year. I love it, (so does one of our huskies Rizzo who likes to lie under it)

I took some of the gorgeous flowers into the studio today to press to use in upcoming workshops & designs 💐

05/05/2024

Flower Preservation blog is up.. 🖤💐

One of our most popular services at Olive Can Fly is flower preservation. It’s keeping us very busy which is absolutely fine as we love doing it! 2024 is filling up with bookings of wedding bouquets and memorial flowers that our clients want to keep and treasure. The ...

03/05/2024

I completed two big flower pressing commissions this week and sent them off to their new homes.

This one was for the lovely Isabelle & Sam.

We met last year when we both exhibited at , I was there to talk about bouquet preservation and Isabelle was showing her stunning portfolio of wedding photography. You can see her work here - get in touch if you’re looking for a wedding photographer!
She was getting married shortly after the event and got in touch to arrange having her bouquet pressed.

I was trusted with her beautiful wedding bouquet designed by and I created a bespoke large frame and 3 small ones using traditional stained glass techniques.

It was such a pleasure to work with an absolutely lovely couple, gorgeous flowers, and I’m so happy that they’re pleased with the end result!

Thank you for trusting me 🖤

(First 3 images 📸 )

30/04/2024

There’s been a lot of work with flowers in the studio this week but it’s never only flowers.. there’s always glass too.. this will very soon be turned into something stunning 😍

30/04/2024

Another day, another stunning bouquet out of the presses for another lovely client.

A completely different colour scheme to the preservation frames I’ve just sent home to their owners.

I love seeing how each bouquet reflects the styles of each client and they’re all so immaculately made. Some seriously talented florists putting these beauties together! 💐

29/04/2024

Kicked off this week in the best way by spending the day with my favourite who photographed a ton of pieces for the website revamp that I’ve got planned for next month.

No sneak peeks though so enjoy this collection of glass cut offs from last weeks designs 😊

26/04/2024

It’s another day of flowers for me today before spending the weekend soldering around 16 frames ready for Monday.. some will be collected, some will be couriered but all will be photographed by the amazing first 🖤

21/04/2024

A lovely day in the studio with 4 gorgeous students who created some beautiful stained glass pieces.

We had 2 suns and 2 monsteras today and I love the individuality of each piece.

If you’d like to spend the day in our stained glass studio then you can book via the link in our bio or highlights.

Availability for May - July is on the website 🖤

13/04/2024

Over 250 wedding businesses are calling for a permanent ceasefire and an end to the genocide in Palestine.
Today we are restating our commitment to action for and solidarity with Palestine.

The wedding industry, whose roots are in love, connection and belonging has no business staying silent genocide. We all have a part to play so let’s turn silence into a commitment to action.

Our call to action and solidarity goes beyond signing the open letter. To read the open letter, see our calls to action and solidarity and to co-sign click the link in our highlights or email [email protected]

Join your local and National action groups. In the UK is one gateway to finding out more.

CEASEFIRE NOW. FREE PALESTINE.

10/04/2024

Kinky Boots (designed by my talented daughter ) are always a favourite and I’ve got lots of them ready for the weekend in various colours and textures👢

I’m in the middle of juggling prep for with the boys being home for the Easter holidays, taking deliveries of gorgeous bouquets to press, sorting my London trip next week, bouncing between working in the studio and home, and a couple of other things I’m not chatting about yet as they’re still in progress - all while Mike is on tour. Tired doesn’t come close 😂

& while I normally enjoy the rain, I hope it sods off in time for this weekends 3 days at the Palm House ☔️

Olive Can Fly will be there ALL weekend:
Friday 12th April // 2-7.30pm
Saturday 13th April // 10.30 - 6pm
Sunday 14th April // 10.30 - 6pm

🖤

07/04/2024

Spent the morning in the studio pressing this beauty for Hannah created by the unreal - such a beautiful bouquet.

Back home now with one of my favourite snacks (peanut butter on toast & a brew) hanging with my beautiful family before Mike leaves again tomorrow.

25/03/2024

Happy Monday 🖤

It’s admin day at Olive Can Fly HQ today. I’ve been working really hard on being more structured as the commissions are coming in thick & fast (which I’m super grateful for but it means I need to be even more organised) and I want to make sure there’s a decent work / life balance for the kids too. Especially while Mike is touring, and his 2024 diary is getting fuller by the second!

Even though it’s so tempting to put down my laptop to pick up my tools and carry on creating gorgeous pieces for my clients I’m definitely benefiting from spending a full day on nothing but admin; creating socials posts, blogging, ordering supplies, replying to emails & DMs, sourcing new opportunities etc. is always a day well spent.

15/03/2024

First week of being back to work after being sick is done. I mainly did half days or if I knew I’d be working late for a workshop I’d start later. Still not 100% but definitely a LOT better so got to make sure that work / life balance is happening.

Finished some commissions that are now in their new homes, did a fab date night workshop with the loveliest couple, designed my ‘next on the list’ brides bouquet, fit in a new haircut by the always awesome Kelly at PVC and had a catch up with my favourites at Lovelocks. Not a bad first week back!

Tonight I’m going to press my gorgeous Mother’s Day flowers the kids gifted me from Funk & Bloom so I can frame them and hang in the studio.

Have a gorgeous weekend, we are off to Wales tomorrow for some relaxing 🖤