December News: How to Make a Christmas Wreath
One of the most festive sights around this time of year is the traditional Christmas wreath hanging on doors and making a fabulous addition to your table setting. Wreaths in this form have a long history and much symbolism associated to them – they’ve been used by many cultures in a number of forms over many years.
The type of wreath typically associated with Christmas are usually made from evergreens which survive even the harshest Winters. Of course, here in Australia we have an abundance of native flowers at this time of year and our biggest problem is keeping the wreath fresh during the long hot days!
Making your own wreath is a great Christmas project. With the right tools, some patience and nimble fingers, and by following our steps, you too could have a great looking door or table decoration.
Of course, if you don’t have time (or the patience) just give us a call on 02 9451 9911 and we’ll be glad to have one of our award winning florists design one especially for you.
Instructions
Step 1.
Start with a vine wreath frame as shown in the image.
Step 2.
Use some Dodda vine to wrap around the top of the wreath frame and connect with wire at the back.
Step 3.
Gather the tools you need – good scissors and a glue gun for affixing the decorations.
Step 4.
Heat up your glue gun. Then cut up pieces of native flowers, nuts and general festive decorations that you want to place on the wreath.
Step 5.
Glue your chosen flowers and decorations onto the wreath frame.
TIP: Take some time to think about where you want to place them. Play around with the placement and see what looks best before gluing into place.
Step 6.
Make bows with wire (as pictured).
Step 7.
Glue bows onto the wreath frame for those final touches.
Archived News
2009 Business Achiever Awards
After being awarded "Best Florist" in the Manly Daily 2008 Business Achiever awards, our business was nominated again in 2009, this time in the Speciality Store category and Robyn's Nest has again received the winner's award. In congratulating us, the Manly Daily commented that "the outstanding result you have achieved is indicative of the success of your business. You demonstrated your merit through customer voting, rigorous judging and a mystery shopper audit to finish as the winner of your category. Congratulations to you and your staff for the effort you put into your business all year!"
We are really excited about receiving the award and we are determined to maintain our standards of quality and value for money for the benefit of our customers.
Robyn's Nest would like to say "thank you" to all our loyal customers who nominated us.
The interesting aspect of this year's award is that we are the winner in the Specialty Store category which is very rewarding as we have been consciously building up our gift line so that it now represents a substantial part of our business.
Allambie Heights Shopping Centre
The Allambie Heights business community is endeavouring to make our shopping centre the place to go for everyday shopping. We have a number of advantages such as the wide range of shops and products, ample parking and that friendly Northern Beaches atmosphere. We are planning to have regular market days and special promotions.
Watch this space for further details!
