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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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When Slow Flowers & Farm Girl Flowers Visit Your Flower Farm
While the Peony flower put Alaska on the map in Floriculture. For over a decade Debra Prinzing of Slow Flowers and Christina Stembel of Farmgirl Flowers are leading the way in making sure American grown flowers are not forgotten and top of mind. *Slow Flowers, the voice of the slow flower movement of making the conscious choice for buying and sending flowers. *Farmgirl Flowers, Purchasing 10+ million dollars worth of American Grown flowers annually for their iconic burlap wrapped bouquet online delivery service. If you love flowers be sure to check out these two floral Queens. Combined with knowing what flowers truly mean for these two floral professional women and the fact…
