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Here we are headed into another new month,  that means First Friday Open Studio! I'll be in the studio with the door OPEN from 1-7 THIS Friday April 4th. I have to be honest, the past few months have been really hard. I know small businesses everywhere are struggling. Even folks who aren't business owners and felt like they had stable and secure employment are feeling anxious it seems. I feel like we need  creativity and community more than ever right now. It's hard to keep believing that flowers are important in times like these but I know it's more important than ever to slow down and find the beauty in the world right now.   

Flowers and foliage as both medium and muse can be a soothing meditation on the ephemeral nature of, well, nature. A way to truly immerse ourselves in the beauty available to us right now. We need to see and create beauty right now more than ever.     

Here we go again with the threat of ice and snow the day before Valentine's Day. Right now we are still planning on making deliveries AND still taking orders for both pick up and delivery. While the last minute orders can be more challenging I am here for it and I've GOT you. I'm a last minute girl myself, I get it. But please, please, please get your your orders in ASAP so I have the time to make your arrangements as EPIC as you are accustomed to seeing from me. You can also still sign up for First Friday Flower Club- subscribe to monthly flowers and get your first bouquet delivered for Valentine's! Your Valentine deserves a flowers EVERY...

What's this? Another blog post only a day later? Practicing using my words after speaking in flowers for so long. Pretty rusty on the typing and speaking bit and could certainly use the practice. Why not do it here where I imagine no one will see it. Anyone who does is certainly looking for it, there are not many places to find me writing even though it's something I feel I can be pretty good at. I think the problem is that anything I feel good at immediately falls prey to my perfectionism and overthinking. I'm going to try letting that go and practice it here. Not sure how long I'll keep it up as a daily practice but here...

Things are looking pretty bleak right now. Not that they haven't for awhile now but it suddenly feels like the unraveling of society at large has leapt into hyperdrive. Seems like there are so many horrible things happening I can't  even put words to my thoughts and feelings about it all. Makes doing a small thing like making pretty flower arrangements seem silly and inconsequential. You know, like that saying about rearranging the patio furniture on the titanic? I am trying to remind myself of the power that comes from finding beauty in everyday things; finding beauty in unexpected places where maybe nobody else would think to look. The hope that can be found in alchemizing the flowers and textures...