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2022 Floral Trends Report

2022 Floral Trends Report

2022 Floral Trends Report edited by Charlotte Argyrou, with contributions from florists, growers and wedding industry creatives

Modern Vintage Style with dressmaker Rose Savage

Modern Vintage Style with dressmaker Rose Savage

Modern Vintage Style with dressmaker Rose Savage Interview and "New Moon" Collection Showcase Introduction Though heavily inspired by the 1930s and 1970s, Bristol-based dressmaker Rose Savage says any era can inspire her modern vintage style. Previously a costume...

Valentine’s Bouquet and Gift Card Collaboration

Valentine’s Bouquet and Gift Card Collaboration

Valentine's Bouquet and Card Collaboration 2021 To celebrate Valentine's 2021, or indeed all things LOVE, I've teamed up with two of my favourite London wedding suppliers, Gemma Hales at Iris & Co and Grania O'Brien at Ink & Paper. We've launched a Valentine's...

2021 Word of the Year

2021 Word of the Year

2021 Word of the Year Words to Inspire your Best Year Ever It's a funny thing, to reflect on a year and plan for the next when it feels like you are in the eye of a storm. For many years, I've set goals and challenges for myself, to various levels of success. I've...

Dear Award Winning Botanical Illustrator

Dear Award Winning Botanical Illustrator

Dear Award-Winning Botanical Illustrator A Letter to my 15 Year Old Self Hey Charlotte, it's Charlotte,  Just wanted to get in touch from the future with a bit of good news: everything is going to be ok.  Any day now, you are going to meet a careers advisor. In your...

Creative Living Blog: How to Make a Dried Citrus Garland

Creative Living Blog: How to Make a Dried Citrus Garland

Creative Living Blog How to Make a Dried Citrus Garland  and Celebrate at Home, the Festive Edition, with Rust Bloom  This year, I'm extremely mindful to not to let my to do list swamp my enjoyment of the festive season. I'm saying no to jobs that feel like work for...

Behind the Scenes of my new Luxe Letterpress Stationery

Behind the Scenes of my new Luxe Letterpress Stationery

Behind the Scenes of my Luxe Letterpress Stationery Introduction Meet Grania O'Brien, founder, Ink & Paper London It's a blustery February day on a yoga/business retreat in Arundel, West Sussex. Letterpress stationery designer and calligrapher, Grania O'Brien, and...

Flower Blog Series – Flowers with Friends: Blue Sky Flowers

Flower Blog Series – Flowers with Friends: Blue Sky Flowers

Flowers with Friends: Blue Sky Flowers A quickfire interview with founder Liz Inigo Jones It's high time for a flower blog update, with another in my Flowers with Friends series. Today, I interview Liz, founder of west London based Blue Sky Flowers. Liz serves up...

The Most Unique Wedding Gift Ideas

The Most Unique Wedding Gift Ideas

Unique Wedding Gift Ideas My Creative Community Shares Inspiration from their Real Life Experience Introduction Truly unique wedding gifts are hard to come by. I have experienced a massive discord between the love I feel for my friends and the items on their gift...

Inside a London Botanical Illustration Home Studio

Inside a London Botanical Illustration Home Studio

Home Studio Tour Introduction Working from home is a big deal right now. I’m very familiar with the perks and pitfalls of creating and maintaining a productive home workspace, as my botanical illustration studio is on the top floor of my skinny London townhouse. As...

Celebrate at Home, with Rust Bloom

Celebrate at Home, with Rust Bloom

Celebrate at Home, Delivered to Your Door New Floral Delivery Service from Greenwich florist, Rust Bloom I celebrated my April birthday in lockdown. Zoom and FaceTime were a savour, as I feared the day might fall a little flat. Punctuating the funny videos and...

Flower blog – How to Flower Your Life while Staying at Home

Flower blog – How to Flower Your Life while Staying at Home

My floral home and flower blog during Covid 19 As a self-employed botanical illustrator, my work schedule has been shaken about by Spring 2020’s most unwelcome visitor. Though I am used to working alone in the “isolation” of my home studio, like almost all of us who...

I want a Fabulous Floral Illustration. How does it Work?

I want a Fabulous Floral Illustration. How does it Work?

I want a fabulous floral illustration. How does it work?  Here's a step by step guide to my Wedding Bouquet Illustration Service, so you know exactly what to expect.  1. Get a married and have a ridiculously incredible bouquet you want to celebrate and...

Flowers With Friends: Luxury Surrey Florist Kate Avery Flowers

Flowers With Friends: Luxury Surrey Florist Kate Avery Flowers

Luxury Surrey florist Kate Spicer and I have a lot in common. I'm a Surrey girl too, and over the past couple of years we've bonded over charity shop floral dresses and mad botanical wallpaper. My Flower with Friends blog series wouldn't be complete without her and I...

Modern Container Gardening with The Balcony Gardener

Modern Container Gardening with The Balcony Gardener

The Balcony Gardener: In conversation with queen of small space gardening, Isabelle Palmer   Let's talk about small gardens Our small garden works really hard. It's a 4m x 4m plot and contains a playhouse, table and chairs, mini trampoline, water butt and several...

Best UK Florists – Flowers with Friends: Jenni Bloom

Best UK Florists – Flowers with Friends: Jenni Bloom

A blog series for the best UK florists to share their flower power As a botanical illustrator and flower blogger, I’m always excited to draw for the best UK florists and uncover their favourite flower stories and inspirations. Here, I welcome Jen Prosser, founder of...

Creative Living Blogger: 5 Hashtags I Follow to Spark Creativity

Creative Living Blogger: 5 Hashtags I Follow to Spark Creativity

Ever seek to spark creativity? Over the last six months or so, I've dramatically reduced the amount of time I spend ideally scrolling on Instagram. We've all fallen into an online black hole, but sometimes the effect is unsettling where it could be uplifting. Instead,...

Flower Blogger – Flowers with Friends: Girl Flower Podcast

Flower Blogger – Flowers with Friends: Girl Flower Podcast

A blog series for artisan florists to share their flower power As a creative living and flower blogger, I'm always excited to cover industry news and beautiful launches. So I'm delighted to welcome artisan florists Victoria Vaught and Jessica Naish to this blog...

The 2020 Floral Trends Report

The 2020 Floral Trends Report

2020 Floral Trends: Introduction When the idea for a blog report about 2020 Floral Trends popped into my head, I loosely marked out three areas I knew I wanted to cover: Dried Flowers Installations Species and Colour Palettes It then took me about 20 seconds to...

10 Ideas for Tat-Free and Eco Friendly Stocking Fillers

10 Ideas for Tat-Free and Eco Friendly Stocking Fillers

Eco Friendly Stocking Fillers: Big Magic, High Style, Minimal WasteIf you are anything like me, you're already keeping your eyes peeled for eco friendly stocking fillers. And it's not just environmental creds that are weighing on my mind. Our house is full. Seriously....

A Love Letter to my Wedding Anniversary Present Customers

A Love Letter to my Wedding Anniversary Present Customers

Dear Lauren,  Dear all my wedding anniversary present customers,  I wanted to write to thank you for inviting me to be a tiny part of your anniversary celebrations. I don't take it for granted that you, or your partner, or maybe your partner having been heavily nudged...

Let the Light Out: Dried Flowers Wedding Inspiration

Let the Light Out: Dried Flowers Wedding Inspiration

In celebration of autumn's arrival, I'm delighted to share this dried flowers wedding editorial photoshoot I contributed to. The shoot was devised and curated by brilliant Valentina Ring of The Stars Inside, and realised by photographer Carla Blain, alongside a team...

Beyond the Evidence: Self Belief for Creative Entrepreneurs

Beyond the Evidence: Self Belief for Creative Entrepreneurs

In celebration of the all-new charlotteargyrou.com, I’ve invited seven brilliant founders to share their expertise in seven areas of creative business. These are subjects I have found especially fun or challenging in my first 18 months since launching Charlotte...

How can I use Design to Communicate my Core Values?

How can I use Design to Communicate my Core Values?

In celebration of the all-new charlotteargyrou.com, I’ve invited seven brilliant founders to share their expertise in seven areas of creative business. These are subjects I have found especially fun or challenging in my first 18 months since launching Charlotte...

Balancing Business and Life for People who Work Alone

Balancing Business and Life for People who Work Alone

In celebration of the all-new charlotteargyrou.com, I’ve invited seven brilliant founders to share their expertise in seven areas of creative business. These are subjects I have found especially fun or challenging in my first 18 months since launching Charlotte...

How can we use Tech and SEO in Creative Business?

How can we use Tech and SEO in Creative Business?

In celebration of the all-new charlotteargyrou.com, I’ve invited seven brilliant founders to share their expertise in seven areas of creative business. These are subjects I have found especially fun or challenging in my first 18 months since launching Charlotte...

Why Community is an Essential Part of my Creative Business

Why Community is an Essential Part of my Creative Business

In celebration of the all-new charlotteargyrou.com, I’ve invited seven brilliant founders to share their expertise in seven areas of creative business. These are subjects I have found especially fun or challenging in my first 18 months since launching Charlotte...

Personal Branding for Solopreneurs with Maria Ure, Luminate PR

Personal Branding for Solopreneurs with Maria Ure, Luminate PR

In celebration of the all-new charlotteargyrou.com, I've invited seven brilliant founders to share their expertise in seven areas of creative business. These are subjects I have found especially fun or challenging in my first 18 months since launching Charlotte...

Why is it so Hard to Write About Me?

Why is it so Hard to Write About Me?

Working on a new website has been an existential ordeal, and nowhere more so than writing my "About Me" page. I've sat at my laptop unravelling my own personality, juggling my desire for authenticity with what and how much personal information...

How To Start A Supper Club

How To Start A Supper Club

I didn't start my supper club Creative in Residence by logically thinking "How to Start a Supper Club" and working methodically through the list. Rather, I focused on my goals, which thankfully were a shared a vision with my co-host - wellness...

How Does the Wedding Bouquet Illustration Service work?

How Does the Wedding Bouquet Illustration Service work?

"How Does the Wedding Bouquet Illustration Service work?" is a question I am asked regularly. I'm asked if I attend the wedding and draw live in situ. I'm asked if I am sent the bouquet by courier straight after the wedding. I have even been asked if I...

The Personal Development Book That Changed My Life

The Personal Development Book That Changed My Life

I don't think I had ever picked up a personal development book before 2018. Formally known as "self-help books", it was a section of Waterstones I had never explored, put off by the strange stigma that surrounded the kind of people who sought...

How Does Creative Living Help Combat Feelings of Overwhelm?

How Does Creative Living Help Combat Feelings of Overwhelm?

Six years ago, in a small meeting room in Kensington, I said to my line manager, "I don't have a creative bone in my body."  I was working in a fast-paced brand strategy agency, where my role as a Fashion PR Director had me working at London,...

I’m Dreaming of a Green Christmas

I’m Dreaming of a Green Christmas

For this post, I interviewed three stylish entrepreneurs who are each dreaming of a green Christmas. If you are still searching for gift ideas, but looking for something a little unusual with a big heart, please have a read and let us know if...

3 Tips for Environmentally-Friendly Gift Wrapping

3 Tips for Environmentally-Friendly Gift Wrapping

At some point during the 35 degree heat of Summer 2018, I boldly declared that my Christmas 2018 would be Sellotape-free. Christmas is a time of huge wastage in terms of packaging (amongst other things) but as December draws near, I'm very...

The Creative Process: Behind the Scenes of a Styled Shoot

The Creative Process: Behind the Scenes of a Styled Shoot

"I love to create," says Victoria Vaught, founder of Ivy Amelia Florals. But in business, our creations are usually subject to a client brief. It's a complex creative process and one that fascinates me with its subtle twists and turns. We are...

Five of the Best Instagram Accounts for Autumn Inspiration

Five of the Best Instagram Accounts for Autumn Inspiration

After a few weeks of wardrobe despair, eagerly dressing in cashmere in the early morning and stripped down to a vest by lunchtime, it happened. It got cold. Things can officially get cosy. Here are five of my favourite Instagram accounts that I...

5 Floral Styles Inspiring Me Right Now

5 Floral Styles Inspiring Me Right Now

I love looking at imagery from exquisite floral designers and events companies to find inspiration. It's fun to see which trends may filter through into my own home, and indeed my client's commissions and wedding bouquet illustrations. Here are...

My Prickly Pear Illustration in The Pink House

My Prickly Pear Illustration in The Pink House

Stepping into The Pink House is a curious combination of being on the set of a magazine shoot and visiting any of my mum-friends at home. And it's oddly familiar for somewhere I've never visited before, because for the past year I've been an...

How Do I Create a Unique Botanical Wedding?

How Do I Create a Unique Botanical Wedding?

Are you hoping to create a unique botanical wedding, but struggling to find new ideas? I speak to three wedding industry experts who aim to innovate, not imitate. USE PLANTS IN SURPRISING WAYS Natalie Drage, founder of Flamboyant Invites,...

Why I Started My Creative Business For Me

Why I Started My Creative Business For Me

A creative business may be born for many reasons. Redundancy, frustration, impulse, illness, lifelong ambition, the need for flexibility, or change in circumstances such as the arrival of babies - all reasons I've hear over and over again. In...

Behind-the-Scenes: My Home Studio Tour

Behind-the-Scenes: My Home Studio Tour

Come and join me for a quick look around the home studio. My HQ space is a former guest bedroom, south-facing, blessed with a floor-to-ceiling window. A few months ago, we decided my little empire had grown too large to exist on the dining...

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