Woodland Style author Marlene Marshall

Photography by: Sabine Vollmer von Falken

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Seasonal Crowns

Anne created four distinctive crowns using bits and pieces from her collection. Each was constructed on a small wire armature to which the various elements were hot-glued.

sabine-photography6495The spring crown is made from birds nests filled with eggs from her neighbor’s French pullets and sprays of apple blossoms.

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sabine-photography7701For the summer crown, Anne used green moss, grass, garden-fresh strawberries, pink cosmos, pansies, roses, and lavender flowers.  Butterflies, moths, and dragonflies suspended on thin wire hover over the arrangement.

sabine-photography7731This autumn crown features the work of hornets. The base is a large papery nest, which Anne topped with honeycomb, wasp galls, elderberries, and flowers.

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Winter’s bounty covers this crown with sprays of white pine and spruce, rows of pinecones, kousa dogwood friuts, small hemlock cones and berries.