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How to Choose Art for Your Home
“Well, I know what I don’t want…” I share seven principles to help you choose art for your home
Charlotte Argyrou Creative Business Mentoring
My new private Facebook group is open for aspiring creative business owners. Read about how my community can help your business grow.
3 Ways to Choose Unique Wedding Gifts
Stick to the registry list or go rogue? Three wedding planner share their ideas for truly unique wedding gifts
2022 Floral Trends Report
2022 Floral Trends Report edited by Charlotte Argyrou, with contributions from florists, growers and wedding industry creatives
Goals vs To Do List: My 40 before 40
Read my list of 40 goals I’m aiming to complete before I turn 40, along with my gang of best school girlfriends
Grow and Gather with Grace Alexander Flowers
My interview with “Grow and Gather” author and gardener, Grace Alexander, in celebration of the book’s publication.
How Do I Figure Out My Personal Style?
Stacey Hartley, founder, To Be Revealed, discusses how she found connection to her intimate personal style.
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...
Wedding Bouquet Illustration Reviews
Wedding Bouquet Illustration Service Reviews The National Award-Winning Wedding Gift Service Despite all the extraordinary challenges of 2020-21, the Wedding Bouquet Illustration reviews prove love is not cancelled. Micro weddings, intimate weddings, ceremonies in...
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...
Wedding Gift Idea – Wedding Bouquet Illustration Service wins National Award
National Award-Winning Wedding Gift Idea Wedding Bouquet Illustration Service wins "Special Touch" Category at The Wedding Industry Awards 2021 Every January, the wedding industry unites to celebrate all the brilliant businesses that offer exceptional customer service...
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 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 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...
2021 Floral Trends Report
Disclaimer: At the time of this post’s publication, weddings are not permitted in England. The only exception is so-called “deathbed weddings” – a heartbreaking and tragic phrase I’d never heard until verifying the current standing on the official government website....
2020 Edition: Ten Tat-Free and Eco Friendly Stocking Fillers Ideas
Eco Friendly Stocking Fillers Ideas: Big Magic, High Style, Minimal Waste Introduction 2020's been a bit of a shocker, hasn't it? We've juggled, we've pivoted, we've hustled, we've survived and thrived the very best we can. And now we want to end the year by serving...
How do I Gently Grow my Unique Wedding Business in a Pandemic?
How do I Gently Grow my Unique Wedding Business in a Pandemic? Five Mindset Lessons I Share on The Wedding Business Podcast Introduction Renowned wedding photographer and industry business coach Faye Cornhill came into my life through a mutual client. I was booked to...
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...
Flowers with Friends: Sarah Diligent, author, A Guide to Floral Mechanics
Sarah Diligent of Floribunda Rose shares her floral tips and inspiration As a creative living and flower blogger, I’m always excited to cover industry news and beautiful launches. This one has been brewing for some time, with a false start Kickstarter campaign in 2018...
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...
How to Step Up when the World Locks Down
How to Step Up when the World Locks Down Three Creative Business Owners Share their Lockdown Pivots Introduction As my family and I ever so cautiously emerge from lockdown, I wanted to take some time to reflect on the personal and professional rollercoaster we’ve...
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
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, 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
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? 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
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
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
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
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
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...
How to Document Your Life: Low Maintenance Ideas for Busy but Soulful People
How To Document Your Life: Introduction My efforts to document my life are heartfelt and enthusiastic, but sometimes short-lived. I’ve got behind on my journal and photo albums. There are photos on my proper camera that haven’t been transferred to my laptop yet. I...
2019 Year in Review: Wedding Bouquet Illustration Service
Wedding Bouquet Illustration Service By botanical illustrator Charlotte Argyrou It's been a beautiful year for the Wedding Bouquet Illustration Service, my signature offering designed for both newlyweds and wedding industry professionals. Here are a selection of my...
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
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....
Flowers with Friends: Up Close and Personal with Artisan Florists Fleur Provocateur
A blog series in conversation with artisan florists and creative business owners Welcome to episode two of this blog series, where I’ll be unearthing floristry hacks from my very favourite artisan florists. How are the inner circle styling their tablescapes this...
Flowers with Friends: Creative Floristry Hacks with Loulabel Floral Design
A new blog series with artisan and creative floristry business owners Welcome to a new blog series, where I'll be unearthing creative floristry hacks from my very favourite flower people. What are the inner circle hanging on their own front doors this festive season?...
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
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...
5 Reasons a Bouquet Illustration Makes a Perfect One Year Anniversary Gift
I'll take a guess that you've found this blog post because you've whacked "what do I buy my wife for our one year anniversary gift?" into Google, hoping for inspiration. You may not of considered a wedding bouquet illustration - it's not an obvious choice, after all....
Celebrating your Uniqueness and How to Stand Out in a Crowded Industry
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...
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?
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
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?
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
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
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...
2019 Floral Trends
“Trends” is a tricky word, isn’t it? Stubborn as I am, my instinct is always to turn away from trends like a bad smell, but simultaneously, I also want to be entirely clued up on who and what’s happening. Into my thirties, I’ve grown more confident in my ability as an...
Living My Floral Dream: My Floristry Business from Idea to Launch
In Summer 2018, a bright and bubbly florist caught my eye who was on the cusp on launching her unique floristry boutique in Poundbury, Dorset. I was instantly impressed with the passion and precision with which Lauren Hooper set about opening...
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 Do I Preserve my Bouquet” and other Wedding Flower FAQs
Trends in floral design are always evolving. What seems fresh and exciting one year, can seem old-fashioned the next. I only have to picture my own wedding bouquet (a tight, rigid posey of antique roses) next to today's wildly abundant...
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?" 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
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?
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
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
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
"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
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...
My Hygge Rituals: Stylish Entrepreneurs Share their Cosy Autumnal Habits
One of my favourite hygge rituals at this time of year is to spruce my home - especially the walls - with little updates. Hanging new frames, switching around pictures, tweaking colour palettes - all help to refresh and bring cosiness to the...
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...
5 Tips for Creating a Natural Family Photoshoot
My husband and I have several shared To-Do Lists in the brilliant life-hack app Wanderlist. One list is titled "Fun Stuff", and it's full of ideas for when we are not in the mood for the dull list (inheritance planning, buy new parking vouchers...
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?
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,...
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
"It's the most wonderful time of the year," I sang merrily as I assembled the cafetiere for breakfast time this morning. "What's with you?" enquired my husband, but I'm pretty sure he knew. You see, September is my New Year as I love all the...
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
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...
Six Picture Frame Recommendations to Fit 40cm x 30cm Art Prints
A bespoke picture frame is always going to give you the highest quality finish for your artwork, offer reassurance about UV protection and give a perfect fit. But to reduce costs, give as a gift, or perhaps as a stopgap while you decide on your...
Four Picture Frame Recommendations to fit 30x30cm Art Prints
A bespoke picture frame is always going to give you the highest quality finish for your artwork, offer reassurance about UV protection and give a perfect fit. But to reduce costs, give as a gift, or perhaps as a stopgap while you decide on your...
A Wedding Bouquet Illustration for Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex
I love a Royal Wedding, the arrival of a Royal Baby or special Royal anniversary. Though I can see why some people challenge their privilege in a modern world, I love to get swept up in the excitement, goodwill and merriment of a Royal...
BEFORE and AFTER: How I Chose My Perfect Green Velvet Sofa and Saved Time and Money
Who can resist a Cinderella story? This is a tale of a much-adored sofa, in need of a little makeover. Well, in fact, no, that's not how this tale begins. We were thinking of buying new, but 2018 has been a year of implementing a mantra of...
How Do I Choose a Wedding Date?
For many couples, deciding how to choose a wedding date requires military-style strategy. Things to consider include the availability of the following: the legal/religious officiants your most important suppliers, including venue key guests,...
Ten Things I Did Right in the First Six Months of Building My Own Creative Business
I have created this list, partly as therapy, but mostly hoping to be helpful to other people who may be on the cusp of setting up their own creative business. I'm big on self-improvement and highly analytical (read: critical) of the progress...
Botanical Illustration for high street fashion brand Wallis
In January, I wrote down "2018 objectives" for my my business - including collaboration commissions with botanical, bridal and fashion brands. I fixed this list up on my pinboard, with all the open-hearted optimism the New Year offers. So I was...
How To to Start Spring Early At Home
In fact, this should be entitled, "How To to Start Spring Early Because You Suspect You Have Seasonally Affected Disorder and You Are OVER This #BeastFromTheEast". So I have this weird thing where I am very much in denial about January-March. I...
IN MY SQUAD: Lucy White, Co-Founder of Wedding Planner Duo Wiskow & White
When I started imagining myself as "professional botanical illustrator", I very much thought about the life I wanted to be living: how work would offer creative fulfillment, financial stability, and - most of all - work around my family...
Two Weeks of Creative Freedom: The £95 Project
I got in a January slump. I got so bogged down in goal-setting and resolution-making, that I forgot to draw anything for three weeks. And then I started thinking that I hadn't drawn anything and I hadn't sold much of what I already had in...
Things I Wish I’d Known About Wedding Planning
Seeing as it's a reflective time of year and many brides-to-be will be about to kick start their wedding planning as soon as the clock strikes midnight, I thought I would braindump I few things I wish I had know about weddings before my...
Floral Trends in 2018: Two Key Updates
Though I have always haboured a fascination with floristry, and fancy it as one of those dreamy careers (early starts and hours on one's feet aside), I have never been too impacted by floral trends. But since touching on the wedding industry...
IN MY SQUAD: Georgia de Lotz, Product Photographer
It dawned on my the majority of suppliers I have most engaged with over the past three months in business are young, female entrepreneurs. It wasn't a deliberate move, but perhaps subliminally I have found comfort and reassurance from building...
The Blogs I Really Read
Instagram and blogs are such a wonderful source of inspiration, but sometimes I find my resources need a refresh. As autumn turns to winter especially, I love to cosy up and have a nosy into other people's homes and wardrobes. So if Christmas...
How To Choose a Picture Frame on a Budget
How to choose a picture frame is a hot topic and I frequently receive advice-seeking queries from my customers. Framing can have a totally transformative impact on your artwork, but it's often a bit of an after-thought. Finding the right thing...
Featured in BBC 1’s DIY SOS The Big Build: Children in Need Special
I love Children in Need. Ever since I was teeny tiny, I can remember it being a really special night, where we could stay up late and enjoy all the Specials and watch the fundraising 'totaliser' triumphantly breaking its own record. Now, as a...
In Your Home: Part One – The Colourful Vintage Collector
It's been a real thrill to start to receive photos of my artwork in my clients' homes. In the hope that you will also enjoy a snoop around, I'd like to introduce a blog series showcasing how botanical illustrations may find a happy home in many...
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