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The best place for artificial flowers (in london)?
« on: January 26, 2009, 06:18:25 PM »
Does anyone know of any good places in London to get cheap, yet reasonably convincing, artificial flowers and foliage??!
I'm hoping to make some garden-themed fairy wings to wear for the electric ballroom & ths will probably require a fair amount of artificial leaves. I also plan to be handing out flowers, amongst other items, & i am but a poor student.
Any advice most gratefully welcomed!  O0
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Re: The best place for artificial flowers (in london)?
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2009, 06:30:27 PM »
I don't think that you can get reasonably convincing ones that cheap, but for just cheap ones (which I do not think could look that bad), try places like Poundland and 99p stores and other bargain store places...There's a place in Camden that has fake roses (Raliel bought a tonne of them there and they were fairly alright)...it's like...£1 for a thing with about 4 or 5 of them...
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Re: The best place for artificial flowers (in london)?
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2009, 08:11:52 PM »
Ah -that's really quite good!
I bought some fake roses in one of the many, many pound shops in ilford a little while back, just to brighten up my room, & they were £1 per rose if i remember rightly. Which would just add up rather quickly if buying roses en masse!
I was thinking i could maybe hand out little ladybird buttons too - i've found someone who makes all sorts of garden-insect-based-buttons in grantham.
I am rambling; I apologise.  :uglystupid2:
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Re: The best place for artificial flowers (in london)?
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2009, 04:17:32 AM »
rambling is good if it leads to something good...... I might be able to get quite a few of the little ladybirds from work as well
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Re: The best place for artificial flowers (in london)?
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2009, 04:18:23 AM »
p.s. with the fake flowers, it is useful to buy big ones from pound shops etc and trim off the individual flowers.....
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Re: The best place for artificial flowers (in london)?
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2009, 03:56:34 AM »
oh cool - i just ordered many ladybird bugs from someone in buckhurst hill, so hopefully they should arrive sooner than from someone in grantham. i can but hope anyway.
i am going flower hunting today!
i hope my costume lives up to your expectations / the overall standard of everyone elses.
diud you have anything specific in mind for the garden mask?
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Re: The best place for artificial flowers (in london)?
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2009, 03:57:17 AM »
ooh & sorry - i didn't mean to add even more to the complications of organising by creating another thread....  :-\
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Re: The best place for artificial flowers (in london)?
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2009, 10:50:14 AM »
eBay's great for that kind of thing, but delivery time might be an issue now...  :-\
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Re: The best place for artificial flowers (in london)?
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2009, 03:53:14 PM »
got some ladybirds from work today so if you run short you have may spare.....
also got glow star stickers for Audrey and some letters for whoever wears the dictionary mask
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Re: The best place for artificial flowers (in london)?
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2009, 04:51:18 AM »
oh that's great about the ladybirds raliel!
i have around 50 ladybird buttons, & about 50 fake roses tooo. the roses are not the best looking however, but nevertheless, roses they be.
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Re: The best place for artificial flowers (in london)?
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2009, 01:02:41 PM »
perfect!
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Re: The best place for artificial flowers (in london)?
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Re: The best place for artificial flowers (in london)?
« Reply #12 on: June 25, 2010, 08:04:57 AM »
Hi......,

So many artificial flowers sites vying the customer base..But it is difficult to find best ...so i would suggest you www.bloom.uk.com/
Hope this site would serve you the purpose ...


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Re: The best place for artificial flowers (in london)?
« Reply #13 on: June 25, 2010, 09:25:54 AM »
another on-topic-if-a-bit-late spambot...what is the world coming to?! :o
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Re: The best place for artificial flowers (in london)?
« Reply #14 on: June 25, 2010, 04:18:17 PM »
...or possibly (I suppose) an actual person searching the web for places to
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