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The Annual 113 First Ladies Luncheon in D.C.
I had the most great and honorable opportunity to be on the floral design team for the 113th First Lady luncheon in Washington DC! How fortuitous it landed on the same year as our countries 250th birthday. I’m not sure how words and pictures can convey just how meaningful it was for me. But I’m gonna give it a try. A friend of mine, Kelly Shore of The Floral Source suggested I submit an application to join the team. And I am so glad she did. It was thrilling to be notified I had been chosen to be a floral design volunteer. I literally cried especially due to security reasons I couldn’t talk…
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Stay Flower Happy All Year
As a professional self-proclaimed flower-freak and farmer I see flowers everywhere I go. I purposely seek them out 365 days a year. Can you relate? The winter months especially here Alaska can be kind of tricky. Our local greenhouses are closed for the winter and the grocery store flowers are really not that fresh. Weekly I eagerly scour the discounted “old” bouquet corner in hopes to find something I can rescue for the dinning room table. Of course in the summer, May-through 1st. hard frost I’m surrounded by all the blooms I grow here on the farm. So by the time November rolls around I can hardly wait to start amaryllis for indoor…
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Flowers kept showing up
There it was, Bloom Imprints Slow Flowers Journal, “Botanical Couture Summer 2022 edition” with my article Flowers From The Heart; The purple Dahlia within its 88 pages. I can’t even begin to describe seeing my words published where thousands of eyes will take a sneak peak into how I started the business of my dreams, sharing the blooms I grow and their messages of love with the world. I wrote, “They say grief comes from not being able to receive love from the departed and lack of being able to express ours in return. But I’m here to tell you, death doesn’t stop love and a flower showed me.” To read the article…
