Winter Warming Windows
Imagine it’s a cold winters’ day in a Covid-free world, you’ve been shopping all day and you’re ready to drop. Wouldn’t this cosy-looking window lure you over and inside? The perfect place for a glass of wine, a tasty snack and to relax with friends. What started as a request for last minute Christmas decorations 2019 has remained but evolved slightly too. ‘Christmas sparkle and garland,’ in a small independent bar couldn’t be the ‘usual’ Christmas decorations, I don’t do that. So as always, I looked at who they were and the service they offered… it had to be vines! The decorations have remained a permanent feature as they proved so popular, yet the plan to replace with green vines in the spring, then to add bunches of grapes in the summer, Autumnal red grapes and leaves then into Christmas has taken a back-seat for obvious reasons. However, we did manage to add a deliberately rough and tatty trellis and to bring the sprigs of leaves ‘alive’ by adding some stems and branches to give more drama and impact. So by re-using the vines, raiding a neighbour’s skip for old tile laths for the trellis, rescuing dead branches from our local wood, and by adding sparkle to discarded corks to turn into Christmas decorations it shows how you can create WOW without a huge budget. And of course, fairy lights make a huge difference all year round…like puppies, they’re not just for Christmas! Helen Goodwin FBDS Vice Chair Made You Look!
