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7 Steps to Make Large Flower & Ice Luminaries in the Winter
Flower and ice luminaries are a beautiful fun and creative way to add a special touch to any occasion. I’ve made these large flower & ice luminaries with flowers in them for 10 winters in honor of my late son, Luke. Which means bearer of light. He was also almost a Christmas baby born on the 22nd. It has always seemed so fitting to make them for all these reasons especially since I live in Alaska where we seem to have endless darkness a few months out of the year. As well as on the 21st we start gaining light a few minutes every day. So let’s light up the winter, but please…
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10 years in flowers celebration highlights
Our 10 years in flowers celebration all summer was up and down, round and round during the worst weather flower season we’ve ever had. Alaskans are kiddingly calling it “8 days of Summer’. May we had wind, June hardly ever saw 50 degrees. August and September, rain, cold and more rain. We only had a handful of temps in the 70’s. Then early hard frost. I’m calling it the summer I lived in rubber boots which did my ankles no favor. I’m so thankful at least our two dinner tours the sun came out which was so nice. But hey, I’ll take a mild sunny October any day. It totally made for easy…
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Flower Power Podcast Interview with Sarah The Market Maven
I was delighted when Sarah Jensen, the Market Maven of Washington, reached out and asked to interview me for her podcast. I first had heard of Sarah when we were co-hosts on the virtual Alaska’s Farmers Market Summit. She impressed me with her knowledge about marketing, a favorite topic of mine and was excited to get the chance to meet her in person. Something about when the interviewer’s favorite flower the dahlia, is the number one flower you grow comes to your farm makes for an incredible experience for the interviewee and the listener alike. Our interview was comfortable and cozy sitting at my dining room table. We talked about all things flowers,…
