LATEST NEWS...........

In May, Lynn Sleet came to give a demonstration entitled Rings and Things. It was the first time Lynn had come to the club. She is a very experienced floral designer and teacher. She gave an amazing demonstration of novel and practical ideas for flower arranging which included a torch-like holder with pockets made entirely out of pinned asbedestra leaves into which she slotted some beautiful large pink spider gerbera. Secondly she created a 'handbag' shaped flower arrangement using 2 wool covered 10 inch wire wreath rings with a third of a block of foam tied in between them at the bottom and the rings tied together at the top.  This was a favourite among the audience and many came to the sales table for wire rings at the end of the evening. Lynn also demonstrated how asbedestra leaves could be quickly wrapped around a half block of oasis to cover it up. Then into a carpet of pittosporum she added a simple wigwam arrangement of twisted hazel and wove beautiful double tulips through the structure, folding some of the tulip petals back to present the flower in a different form. In a further arrangement Lynn used a 12 inch wire wreath ring covered with a network of neon coloured wools and showed us how by placing this 'grid' over a group of simple 'food' jars a cohesive and interesting arrangement could be created as you threaded flowers through the grid into the jars. A similar 'grid' was used as a holder for a hand-tied bouquet which used statice, peach gerbera, green dianthus, hard ruscus and gyp. It was a thoroughly interesting and informative evening. The audience were very enthused by Lynn's ideas and excited to go home and try them out for themselves.

COMING UP...............

On June 2nd at clubnight we have our own in-house group of 5 arrangers called The Sweeties giving a demonstration entitled 'Pick and Mix'.  Each will be presenting one arrangement. As you can imagine they are a little nervous of being in the limelight. Please come along and support them.

Schedules for our Summer Show on Saturday July 11th came out last month. There are some really inspiring class titles. If you have never entered a show before members can enter the novice class and as many of the open classes as you like. It would be lovely to have a hall full of entries. The closing date for entries is June 26th. Please contact Joyce if you want to enter stating which classes you want to exhibit in. The show will be held at English Martyrs Church Hall. Visitors are always welcome to the show so do plan to pop in and see what we get up to.

No Bring and Buy Table in June however, our Show Tombola this year is going to be a Bottle Tombola; all the prizes will be in bottles! We would really appreciate if you could donate a filled bottle for the tombola table or empty bottles that could be filled, or individually wrapped sweets/items for filling jars. It could be cotton wool balls in a jam jar, or sweeties, or even bottles of J2O or similar. Please bring items along to the June meeting.

Also, one of the raffle prizes at the show will be a hamper. We would like to fill it with some delicious items so if you are able to help out, Amanda is accepting donations of non perishable small food items in June. 

For all you church flower arrangers out there, a free demonstration of arranging church flowers in an eco friendly way is being held at All Saints Church, Merstham on Tuesday Morning 28th July at 11am. If this is you or you know someone who might be interested please invite them along but contact Janet Aslett to book places.

Regent Hall Refurbishment: June is our last meeting in Regent Hall. From July our clubnights will be held at English Martyrs Church Hall in Vicarage Lane, Horley. It will be same time, 7:30 pm on the first Tuesday of each month from then on for approx a year. There is plenty of parking at the hall. See you there.