Vintage Vase Club is an online members site that celebrates flowers and vintage vases while teaching members how to design and decorate via regular video content.
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Low horse shoe vase with snowball and achillea
A beautiful low horse shoe vase, perfect for display on a table and with a candle placed in its centre, is the vessel for this week’s vintage vase club. The flowers include viburnum snow ball and achillea.
Blue owl vase with white Waratah
This video was recorded in late October and features white Waratah, a special bloom that can be challenging to grow and so we see much fewer of them than the red varieties. The vase is a tall blue vase in the shape and design of an owl, it is a vase hard to find flowers to compliment it as the vase is so striking, and so the striking white waratah are the perfect bloom.
Cookie jar style glass vase with lupin, sage, carnations and sweet pea
This cookie jar style glass vase is available for purchase from Apple’s Annie’s stall, # 330, in the Castlemaine Bazaar. The flowers I design with are Jerusalem sage, lupins, sweet pea and carnations.
Fowler jar with bok choy flower
Taking advantage of my bok choy going to seed, I pulled out a plant and show you how you can display such a specimen, displayed here in an old Fowler jar.
Orange and red ranunculus using chicken wire
In this episode of Vintage Vase Club we use chicken wire as the floral mechanic to design orange and red ranunculus in a trough shaped compote vase.
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This video explains what Vintage Vase Club is, what you'll get out of it, and shares skills in designing into a beautiful circular vessel using white ranunculus, pear blossom and pittosporum foliage.
Crystal bud vases with poppies, gium and ranunculus
In Vintage Vase Club this week we designed using crystal vases and bright spring flowers of poppies, gium and ranunculus. The vases were later used with other vases to decorate for a spring lunch event catered by the Maine Foodstore.
Tulips with bulbs in Fowler's Jars
Ali celebrates the beauty of tulips with their bulbs still attached in the incredibly versatile Fowler's Jars. Glass beads or small pebbles are also used to help prop the bulbs up out of the water to avoid root rot.
Crystal jug with purple hyacinth
Vintage Vase Club for this week demonstrates how you can use any small vessel that you have to display florals. It is a small crystal jug with fragrant purple hyacinth.
The First Vintage Vase Club! Pottery vessels with wattle and eucalyptus
This is the first Vintage Vase Club. The vessels were made in 1980 by Bendigo Pottery. Wattle and eucalyptus are the florals that Ali designs with, the display is curated to be displayed in Wild, a local restaurant.
Scalloped trough compote with kale and stock
This Vintage Vase Club is using purple kale, lemon stock in a scalloped trough compote.
Glass bottles with white freesias
Using a collection of vintage and reclaimed glass bottles, I display white freesias in a simple yet effective display.
Shell vase with white kale using a Kenzan.
This week’s vase is a low shell shaped vase. I use a kenzan as my mechanics and the fowers are white ornamental kale.