Monthly Archives: June 2015

I honestly love everything about auctions Beyond drinking the coffee, buying non-banting sandwiches made by the wonderful fundraising ladies and seeing all the regular faces, I love the idea of re-using, re-purposing or re-finishing; the adrenaline-rush of going for someone’s granny’s old teapot and getting it, knowing that a bunch of rosemary or cluster roses […]

Because Petals is always evolving, I like to keep an eye on what’s happening at the very heights of fashion. Rather than being enslaved to them, I see trends as sources of inspiration, to which I add my own stamp of uniqueness based on what is locally and seasonally available – and where my creativity […]

Before I opened my shop in 2014, I had to completely transform the look and feel of the existing store in Nottingham Road. My design objective was to shed the old brand entirely to create a space that was unique to the local market. I drew my inspiration from European florists such as Odorantes in […]