Mood lights

In a store, you can't always make the surfaces yourself. These tealight holders already form
a beautiful frame. To give them a slightly different look, a number of gold-colored
aluminum wires are incorporated around the base, some wrapped with gold-colored bullion wire. This is decorative but
also technically provides the possibility to attach tubes and Christmas baubles to the base. Some
beautiful flexible mini south wind lilies and Tillandsia leaves 'grow' nicely through the wires.

Christmas wreaths

Polystyrene wreaths were used as the base for the Christmas wreaths.
Holes were first drilled into these
to insert plastic tubes. After that,
molten candle wax was applied. The materials
were glued or placed on silver-colored aluminum wire
that was inserted through the candle wax into the polystyrene.
Roses,
orchids, Tillandsia, snowberries and
Alocasia leaves were placed in the tubes.

Natural wreaths

For the base of each of these wreaths, a polystyrene ring is
used on which prepared foliage is glued with hot glue.
A layer of bullion wire is wrapped around the foliage for
decoration - it also ensures that the foliage stays nicely
within the shape everywhere. All materials are glued with hot
glue, including a number of Christmas baubles upside down
so that they can also serve as water carriers for Gloriosa
and a number of small Phalaenopsis and Nerine flowers.

Golden drops

These golden drops can serve as
alternative Christmas trees, but they are also
very beautiful as objects. The stunning bases
are made of 5 mm thick gold-colored
aluminum wire wrapped with gold-colored
bouillon wire and can be re-arranged many times.
Gold-colored Ginkgo leaves and Christmas balls
have been used. Gloriosa and Bromelia flowers
are incorporated in a glass tube.

Christmas tree alternative

A simple wooden disc has a wire –
end as a central point, around which is a
prop of silver-colored aluminum wire processed
with the crush technique – kneading a number of meters
of wire into the correct shape. Numerous
decorative materials can be incorporated into this
alternative mini Christmas tree: small
Christmas balls, pine cones, Tillandsia leaf and Alocasia leaves.

Ode to Aruba

The base is a boat shape of Lunaria made using the glue technique. The boat is filled with zinc fern (Phlebodium 'Blue Star'), Brunia, pampas grass (Cortaderia), silver bush (Calocephalus) and reused roots of the Phalaenopsis. Cream-colored Christmas baubles and a petrified desert rose give the whole a Christmas touch.
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Inspiration for the materials used comes from Christmas in Aruba, where plumes of pampas grass always play a role. 'Brunia is reminiscent of coral, zinc fern leaves of seaweed, and Lunaria of shells.'