Zoe Boyd Creative

23/12/2024

Our last two custom orders for the year (probably!) have been delivered in time for Christmas. These arrangements will each take pride of place as table centrepieces for some Christmas dinners.

23/12/2024

Mrs C wanted a simple affair at her local country church for her memorial service, which was held a little while after her private cremation.

Mrs C had been a dedicated member of many community groups in her local area, and in particular Landcare, being a volunteer for over 25 years. We chose to honour this life of community involvement and passion for the local environment in several ways with her floral arrangement, which consisted of proteas, Australian wildflowers and eucalyptus leaves.

All of the flowers and foliage were grown in the local area that she had dedicated so much time and effort to over the years and all came from within a few kilometres of her home, meaning this arrangement could have a minimal carbon footprint, minimising its impact on the environment.

This arrangement is 100% biodegradable, meaning in time it can break down to nourish the earth, helping something new and beautiful grow and help care for the land that Mrs C devoted so much passion to.

This arrangement is designed to be adaptable. It can adjust to any size cremation box that was brought to the memorial service, surrounding Mrs C's ashes in natural beauty, or straightened out to be a longer arrangement at the afternoon tea held after the service.
These two different placements can be seen as demonstrated in the second and third pictures.

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18/12/2024

I'm very excited to announce that some of my artwork will now be available for sale at Pure Gold Holistic & Wellbeing, from this week!
This gorgeous gift shop at 1 Spring St, Maldon has a range of divine body & bath products, candles and home fragrances, and now, floral art pieces.

I'm so proud to have them available for many people to enjoy as they're shopping, or in their own home, and I hope they can add some beauty to some spaces that will allow them to truly shine.

14/12/2024

This week only!
We have a very limited number of garden-safe Reindeer Food available this week!
This sparkly little bags are a tasty treat for you to sprinkle on the lawn or leave near your stocking for Santa's reindeer when they stop at your house this Christmas eve. Don't forget to write a thank you note for them on the paper scroll (those reindeer work pretty hard, you know!)

$5 each

Made with 100% biodegradable ingredients, including bioglitter.

14/12/2024

It's a very festive market day today! Any day is a good day when you've got fairy wings on! We'll be here spreading Christmas cheer and fairy magic until 1 🧚‍♀️🌸🌼

12/12/2024

It's going to be a busy weekend!

12/12/2024

It's been an exciting start to December, with these 2 artworks being snapped up and delivered to some happy buyers, and a few other pieces still available.

We've got 2 markets on this weekend, and will be taking orders for Christmas arrangements and wreaths for another little while, so if you have any last minute orders or gifts to organise, you'll need to get in quick!

Theres also some other very exciting news that I will be able to share with you next week! (But it's a secret until then...)

05/12/2024

Thanks for the love from the Talbot Farmer's Market team! This month's market is set to be a great one, with lots of exciting things happening on Market day!

30/11/2024

Fresh Flowers and gifts ready for sale at the Bendigo showgrounds market this morning!
I've got some new floral art available from today, too, fresh out of the studio 😍
Here until 2.00!

29/11/2024

Come see us this Sunday, in Bendigo!

28/11/2024

Maldon has turned the weather on for us for the shopping spree, come see us at the corner of High St and Spring St, Maldon! Get in quick, the shopping spree is only on until 8 tonight!

27/11/2024

We're having a cheeky little market stall tomorrow night!

26/11/2024

It's going to be a very busy month, so get in early if you would like to place an order for Christmas!
We have a great range of options to suit any budget, perfect for adding some festive beauty to your home or to gift to someone special. With options including Christmas wreaths for your door, beautiful bouquets, a colourful centrepiece for your lunch table, or fun fairy kits or seed bombs for those presents you forgot to organise (we promise you won't end up on the naughty list if you've missed one!) there's plenty of choices!

If you're after something, just send us a message!

16/11/2024

It might be a grey day, but we've brought lots of colourful things to the Talbot Farmers' Market this morning!

15/11/2024

11/11/2024

I had the privilege of being asked to speak this morning at Maldon RSL's Remembrance Day service, when the biodegradable wreath we provided was laid.

Usually, I use the details and the stories provided to me to design a wreath, but not this time. For today’s arrangement for Maldon RSL's Remembrance Day service I was asked to design it based on “what Remembrance Day means to me”.

It can be a difficult question to answer, especially for someone of my generation. We have never been called upon, willingly or otherwise, as other generations have. And honestly, I don’t know I’d have the courage to go, if I was. “What does Remembrance Day mean to me?” It means respecting those who have had to do things I haven’t.

It means knowing that some people, young and old, hate lightning and fireworks, and being thankful that I don’t have a reason to.

It’s the memory of standing at the edge of a field of poppies in Europe, knowing that so many people saw it very differently and never left, and feeling the weight of it in the air amid the irony, of the sun shining beautifully and the birds singing.

It’s knowing my grandmother couldn’t watch any movies about the war, because it reminded her of too many people she missed, and learning there was more to her than her tough exterior showed.

I don’t remember the war ending, or the parades that welcomed far less people home than they had said goodbye to, or Vietnam, or lots of things that many people associate with Remembrance Day. I do remember in 1997, when school stopped and we observed a minute’s silence; the first time I recall doing so. It’s about teaching the next generation why that is important, so they will come to understand it too.

It’s about giving our daughter her Dutch family name, because it had been so strongly fought for to survive, that it is now used with pride.

It’s about knowing there are far too many people with blurry old tattoos that were not the result of some young frivolous error of judgement, but of someone else’s making and that perhaps they’d rather forget them all the same, and about remembering those who we’ve lost who fought against such things.

It means honouring those who have had to see things that I haven’t, and being grateful for that.

It means that we dress a little nicer; more respectfully today.

It means that even though the younger ones may not understand some of these things, that we should teach them, and one day they will understand it more.

It means somber traditions, and history.

For all these reasons, I have included the following flowers and foliage in this wreath, as well as fallen sprig of Maldon’s own Gallipoli Pine.
I have included 11 main elements, each with 11 pieces.
Rosemary and statice, both symbols of remembrance.
Olive branches, a symbol of peace.
Carnations and yellow rose buds, both traditionally used to symbolize gratitude.

But the focus of this wreath is roses and bay leaves, as were in the wreath that was laid by King George V for the funeral of the Unknown Soldier in 1920,
And eucalyptus and French lavender, for our own unknown soldier who returned home from France in 1993.

Because Remembrance Day isn’t just about what it means to me. It’s about what it means to all of us, the people that we know, the people who have been lost, and the people who have made a difference, even if they are unknown to us.

08/11/2024

Market day!

08/11/2024

It's market day again!