A Sweet Floral Life

Learn how to create exquisite, lifelike sugar flowers and arrange them with fresh blooms in the floral arrangements of your dreams-regardless of season or availability. "A Sweet Floral Life is pure magic."-Ariella Chezar, author of The Flower Workshop and Seasonal Flower Arranging Rising Instagram star Natasja Sadi's floral arrangements have a sumptuous, old-world look straight out of a classical painting. But among the glorious profusion of fresh flowers, there is often a surprise twist: handmade sugar flowers (traditionally used in cake decorating) that are indistinguishable from real ones and last forever. In A Sweet Floral Life, Natasja guides you through her creative process of flower arranging and developing your personal style, along with tutorials for seasonal arrangements, living and entertaining with flowers, and how to photograph flowers. A former fashion designer, Natasja began making flowers out of sugar to honor her African and Indonesian ancestors who worked in the sugarcane fields of Suriname. In A Sweet Floral Life, Natasja provides steps for sculpting sugar flowers, a versatile medium with limitless possibilities-they can be used in fresh floral arrangements, displayed on their own as unique home décor, or used to adorn cakes. And whether it's the middle of summer or the dead of winter, sugar flowers are always in season and always in perfect full bloom. Capture the romance, set the mood, and be swept away by gorgeous and inspiring floral art with A Sweet Floral Life.

Natasja Sadi is a celebrated floral artist who composes fresh flower arrangements and sculpts exquisite sugar flowers from her home atelier in Amsterdam. Her cakes are lifelike resemblances of floral beauty and are some of the most sought after in Europe. She and her flowers have been featured in magazines such as Elle Décor, Victoria, Flower, and Dutch Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. She teaches floral design and the secrets of sugar flower artistry in Europe, Asia, South Africa, and North America.