Christmas, Churches, Back Roads, and Old Barns

I love living and working on the rural route, the backroads, the Farm to Market roads, the small communities... 

This week, my adventures (work) have taken me to several small communities on the rural route and I carried my camera with me to capture some of the fall foliage along the way. 

Country road take me home - Monday version... 

Tuesday afternoon, I headed back out again - 

I delivered Christmas flowers to the Perryville Cemetery. In all my years in the floral business, I had never been in this cemetery. 

Cemetery vases and saddles were placed for the holidays. 

I've passed this church many times, but never stopped to take a picture. Since I was at the cemetery next to it, I walked to the church to finally take a picture! 

My schedule was quite for the rest of the afternoon, so I wandered home slowly, stopping to take lots of pictures. 

Wednesday adventures had me 12 foot high, decorating western Christmas trees! 

Tip: When decorating a tall tree by yourself, confiscate an Easter bucket from the decor closet, load it with an assortment of ornaments, before going up the ladder! You'll be glad you didn't have to go up and down the ladder 1,567,384 times! 

Thankful for friends and customers who ask me to create arrangements and decorate their homes for Christmas! 

I've been by the Glade Creek church before, but decided to take a picture of it, on my way back to town. I love the old churches and fall foliage! 

I passed this barn and had to turn around and go back for a picture! 

Hmmm, now I wonder where we will wander tomorrow?!? It's Thursday, so that means we will be Gone Junkin' with Angea! No telling where the road will lead us or what we'll find! 

Cheyenne and Brant's Wedding

I recently designed flowers for Cheyenne and Brant's Wedding. 

Their chosen colors were light pink, white, and deep purple and I used roses, dahlias, astilbe, cushion mums, and assorted greenery. 

The boutonnieres were made from deep purple callas. So thankful that they shared pictures from the wedding! So much of the time, I work from behind the scenes, so I love getting to see actual wedding pictures. 

The wedding party! I love that all the bridesmaids didn't wear the exact same dress and they were in various shades of pink and purple. 

Here's a close up of the bridesmaid bouquets. 

Boutonniere close up.

Thank you for letting me design flowers for your wedding and be a part of your special day! Sending my congratulations and best wishes to the new bride and groom!

Sophisticated Swamp Bayou

"Sophisticated Swamp Bayou"

That was the theme for an event I designed fresh flowers for this weekend! It was a new theme for me and I loved all the textures, flowers and foliage that was used to create these arrangements. 

My customer was taking them out of town, so I haven't seen them all displayed on the tables at the historic plantation setting. 

When a friend heard the theme, she said "I didn't know the swamp could be sophisticated."  When I sent her one of the pictures of the completed arrangements, she replied "Yessss! You really can be SSB!" 

Bells of Ireland, green hydrangeas, trick, fujis, trachelium, silver dollar eucalyptus, amaranthus, alium, explosion grass, curly willow, pussy willow branches, lotus pods, and Spanish mosh created the swampy bayou look. 

These where fun to make and I heard everyone liked them at the event! Makes me want to have a swamp party- how about you?!? 

Big Trucks and Flowers!

I had the privilege of designing flowers for a recent Trucking Technology Program at the civic center. 

Yes, that is a big Peterbilt truck inside the building! The arrangements had red roses, gladiolus, ginger, white hydrangeas, larkspur, and snapdragons and assorted greenery. 

Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your special event!

A Sneak Peek!

Here's a sneak peek of what I've been working on lately -

New Curtains

A French Country Bench Makeover

French Country Signs (its from a florist)

Burlap Wedding Orders

Demolishing lots of dust bunnies for this photo shoot ;)

Up to this point, I would have never considered my decorating style French Country. I've always liked the look in magazines and on Pinterest, but never had a French influence in our home. This past weekend, I browsed the Funky Junk link up party and was inspired to makeover this bench (its been in the shed over a year.) That led me to the Graphics Fairy website and I made use of several French advertisements and graphics.

 I'll  share lots more in the next few days - Stay tuned!