Flowerona Links: With festive designs, gingerbread men & a calendar…

Are you sitting comfortably? It’s time for Flowerona Links…

General 

Step-by-steps

• How to make a Christmas wreath by Kirstie Allsopp
• DIY: Simple Advent wreaths made from foraged flora
• Make your own gifts : Flower seed packets

Festive designs

• The 10 best Christmas flower bouquets
• The best Christmas wreaths for 2013
• 10 Christmas table decoration ideas

Stationery

• Beautiful floral calendar with designs by Saipua

Simply flowers

• Thistle fact sheet on Design Sponge

Weddings

• Fabulous wedding flowers at this Portuguese wedding
• Eclectic West Australian wedding with wonderful photos
• Beautiful white and green florals by Lindsay Coletta
• Edwardian inspired bridal shoot with lovely florals
• Pale apricot and white wedding flowers at this St Louis garden wedding
• Blush and gold Anthropologie inspired wedding
• Gorgeous pale pink, cream and white wedding flowers by Fairynuff Flowers
• Island idyll shoot with white and green blooms

Video 

Prepare to be wowed by this video from McQueens! A wonderful Christmas installation at The Grove, using a flock of 2,000 faux birds, 5,000 baubles and an army of 1,500 gingerbread men.

I hope you enjoyed that little escape into the world of all things floral and that you have a lovely Sunday!

(Images : 1. Hodder & Stoughton / RTRP Ltd, 2. André Teixeira, Brancoprata)