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Lucy Richardson Travelling Florist

Creative freelance florist, national demonstrator and workshop tutor for Nafas. Professional florist with 37 years experience. Freelance wedding florist.
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Artisan floral and planted designs. Floral art demonstrations and creative workshops. Qualified National demonstrator and teacher for NAFAS.

20/06/2024

"Floral Anthology" my demonstration this week was a joy to share because I had the most beautiful seasonal flowers to use. Some were harvested from my garden, which is crammed with perennials at the moment, funny how I always find room for one more plant...I know I am not alone when it comes to plant passion, as I admitted this to the audience there were several murmers of agreement 🪴

I had to share the stage with an interesting array of stage props including a chaise longue and a piano as they had scheduled the demonstration in the middle of rehearsals for a play! 🎭Several of the props can be seen in the background, it looks like I'm demonstrating in a Victorian drawing room!

Each piece was designed around the flowers, such as "Toxic" all about beautiful but deadly flowers ☠️ inspired by the poison garden at Alnwick Gardens and "Wild" which is about appreciating the abundance of wild flowers which are everywhere at the moment and so important for the ecosystem and biodiversity of the dales meadows 🌿 and "Folkloric" which delves into mythology and why some flowers have quirky common names my favourite is Nigella damascena known as love in the mist or the Yorkshire version is snog in the fog ☁️ 😆 all about unrequited love and lost love 💙

02/06/2024

🌸 w o r k s h o p 🌸

Gorgeous sunny Sunday morning spent outside teaching a flowercrown workshop to these lovely girls at their hen weekend in a lovely countryside location.

26/04/2024

So lovely to visit Morpeth Flower Club again on a glorious spring evening with my demonstration Dales Life.

16/04/2024

✂️ w o r k s h o p ✂️

Hello! I haven't posted on here for ages! So sharing a few pics from my foam free workshop this week at Loftus flower club, a great bunch of creative ladies and so lovely to see Emma a floristry student from years ago! 🌸✨️

I also wanted to say that this is my last year of demonstrating and teaching floral art workshops as I have decided to keep local and work freelance so no more travelling around the country next year for me. I have a handful of demonstrations and workshops scattered across the year ending in Cornwall in October. I started my Nafas journey in 2014 (can't believe it is 10 years!)🌷

24/12/2023

Happy Christmas everyone!

It's the end of a very busy month making wreaths, table centres and festive bouquets at the very lovely and

I am really looking forward to some days off catching up on some TV, a beach walk, some sitting around doing nothing, letting my hands recover (not a pretty sight - they never look clean at this time of year!) Having a gin or two or even a cuppa that doesn't get cold or pine needles in it, having a lie in (yes miss .en_pointe no 6.00am starts for college for a while 🙂)
Did you notice I have missed out housework!

Merry Christmas!

23/10/2023

Festive workshop with the lovely and very talented Ripon Flower Club NAFAS last week.

06/10/2023

🍂 d e m o n s t r a t i o n 🍂

It was so lovely to go back to Cestrian Flower Club last night where I had my last demonstration for this year. I think it was my third visit to them! Such a lovely audience. They are now in a new venue which is always "hope I find it OK..." I did drive past it twice mainly looking for the parking place 🤣 which was a tight squeeze...but lots of help was on hand getting all my gear into the venue, it really does help!

Just 2 workshops to go then it's work work work...up to Christmas 🎄

21/08/2023

✂️ w o r k s h o p ✂️

So lovely to work with the creative ladies and gentleman (yes 1 gentleman 👏) of Vanguard Contemporary Design Group in Kent. We spent the day working with paper and card making foam free structural pieces.

We managed a few days away from home to stay at the very pretty Whitstable, such a picturesque part of the Kent coast 🐚. Found a wonderful vintage styled florist with a gorgeous selection of flowers, so nice to chat to them 🌿

10/07/2023

Looking forward to seeing the lovely ladies at Ilkley flower club this evening. I have been busy preparing some origami butterflies with some gorgeous japanese chiyogami paper for my demonstration "Oriental Infusion" 🦋🎋

05/07/2023

🌼 b o u q u e t 🌼

Summer garden birthday bouquet for a lovely friend in my village (ordered by her husband as a surprise) which I delivered yesterday. I haven't seen her for ages and when she opened the door she hugged me and invited me in for a catch up! 2 hours later and a few glasses of chilled rosé I walked back home feeling happy!

30/06/2023

Olivia Richardson ready for prom 🤍🖤 looking so grown up and ready for her next chapter....

30/06/2023

.en_pointe ready for her prom 🤍🖤

A new chapter awaits....
♠️

30/06/2023

🌸 p r o m f l o w e r s 🌸

More of the same....

30/06/2023

🌸 P r o m f l o w e r s 🌸

Pretty blooms for gorgeous girls heading out to the year 11 prom tonight! I've known many of them since they were 5! So grown up now!

27/06/2023

🌻 d e m o n s t r a t i o n 🌻

A few snaps of my demonstration for the very lovely East Riding Flower Club over in the Yorkshire Wolds. Completely without floral foam and seasonal blooms were in abundance, a couple of first time new designs were added (love a risky moment when they don't go quite right 🙃) and it's always fun seeing ladies walking across the carpark wrestling with armfuls of floral art at the end!

04/06/2023

Perfect Bloom.....

04/06/2023

🌿 w o r k s h o p 🌿

Demo pieces from the seasonal floral art workshop with the members of Stokesley Flower Club yesterday.

We made a wire form covered with tillandsia, making the most from blooms from the garden including my favourite allium, aquilegia and sanguisorba.

14/05/2023

Loved being back to teach the very creative ladies at Cutting Edge today who were celebrating 25 years of the group. We worked on simple wire forms highlighted with seasonal blooms.
and props

01/02/2023

🌿 d e m o n s t r a t i o n 🌿

First demonstration this year! For Darlington flower club where I was introduced as a local girl!!

A Lovely, friendly group trying a new venue out, so many clubs are learning to adapt to rising costs which can be challenging but certainly worthwhile and achievable, as it's as much about socialising as it is the flowers. Many members look forward to their monthly meeting catching up with friends while appreciating beautiful blooms.

Its great to see how friendships blossom, one lady told me she has been a member for 30 years and has made so many friends through the club and Darlington will celebrate 65 years this year!

27/01/2023

🌿 B e a u t i f u l N a t u r e 🌿

Stunning scenery of the Swale Trail, a special place to walk all year round.

18/12/2022

☃️ What does a florist do on an unscheduled day off?
❄️ Make more wreaths!

I was due to work today but the lane and road were covered in ice, I could hardly walk on it let alone drive, so I used the time to make wreaths for friends and family.

This one is mainly foraged from the garden and the lane and will go on my shed door 🎄❄️☃️

17/11/2022

Lovely festive day spent creating with East Keswick flower club.

This is my final Nafas event this year and what a year its been.... demonstrating up North, down South and East and West!

I'll soon be very busy working at both and as the Christmas door wreaths are calling.....

05/11/2022

C h r i s t m a s w o r k s h o p

🌲This was a Nafas floral workshop which was a no floral foam twinkly tree design. The members of Embsay flower club did a great job managing to complete their designs and take them home, with a procession of illuminated trees in the dark crossing over the road to the car park at the end!🌲

22/10/2022

My final NAFAS demo this year was an open meeting for the lovely Ripon Flower Club, which has a fantastic dedicated and talented commitee, it is a club that enjoys both workshops as well as demonstrations and I'll be back there teaching next year.

It's been a marathon year of demonstrations travelling all over the UK. I recently took a decision to no longer do Christmas dems due to my freelance work which I am really enjoying at the lovely and . I spend a phenomenal amount of time to create and prepare designs for my demonstrations and there is sometimes not enough time to do everything else....so it's a good feeling to know I can now at least find time to do the ironing or not.....🙃

08/10/2022

🍂 h a n d p i c k e d 🍂

Early start this morning off to demonstrate at Sleaford, gathered a few bits and bobs from the garden and made this for a birthday gift all home grown apart from the clematis.

My garden needs a lot of work now so will need to make time......

16/09/2022

Another demonstration today for the very lovely ladies of Roker flower club who will be closing soon so I feel privileged to be one of the last demonstrators, the demo was in Whitburn, such a pretty village close to the seaside so of course I did "Flotsam & Jetsam" beachcombed pieces inspired by our beautiful coastline.

There are six pieces in this demonstration and I managed four without foam, pictured
1. All done in tin cans inside the container
2. Structure made from card using reusable plastic tubes, I always give this structure away complete with flowers
3. Traditional design in foam
4. Handtied in frame also give this away complete
5. Flowers all in reusable plastic tubes, leaving the stems long helps the design to flow and can make a pretty bouquet to give away at the end
6. Traditional piece in foam

13/09/2022

One of my foam free designs from the demonstration for "Together Again" weekend in Leicester. It was a big demonstration for me, a lot of work in preparing for it especially as I gave myself the challenge of doing everything without foam, but it was an honour to have been asked and I know it was appreciated!

04/09/2022

Just back from delivering two workshops called "rediscover, reconstruct" at the NWR conference at Newcastle University today.

Such lovely groups of women who are connecting through the organisation. It states on their website that they are interested in everything and talk about anything, which was certainly reflected in their conversations today! There were women from all over the UK attending and it was wonderful to meet them.

We constructed a large kusudama flower from glossy magazine paper and made it into a vessel to hold some garden grown dried flowers to be enjoyed over the Autumn and Winter.

03/09/2022

This design popped up on memories and I had completely forgotten it! I was experimenting with handmade paper and it was a design I taught at a nafas workshop around 5 years ago I think.

I have spent virtually every spare hour in August making designs and structures for my demonstration at the "Together Again" nafas weekend in Leicester next week, my "workspace" aka dining room has disappeared under an eclectic array of pieces all created specially for the event, some involving more hadmade paper made from raffle tickets i have collected at demonstrations this year! My husband said he will be glad to have our table back and not eating off our laps!! 😁

28/07/2022

Getting inspiration.... although it puts my houseplants to shame..... always squeeze in a visit to Kew Gardens, every time I go I do a little bit more!

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