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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
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.
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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