I’m prepping for a mock-up this Friday for a September bride and snapped some pictures of the usual tumult of greenery and color overtaking my dining room table. I’m always sweeping, brushing, rearranging, only to get things neat for approximately 6 hours before doing it all again. My antique bottle collection is growing at an […]

Carolyn and Bob’s wedding on May 14 at Mercury Hall here in Austin was months in the making. They were such a delight to work with— gardeners at their own home, interested in learning more about the floral world, they were active collaborators in developing their floral scheme that centered around the stained glass windows […]

A fun little collaboration with Joy from Oh Joy! in the floral realm — ’twas my project to take any piece of art and re-interpret it in flowers. This little ditty [above] was the inspiration behind some really curious, yet beautiful, color combination. Check it out right over h.e.r.e.

The sunset, blazing red, orange, yellow — stretching across the sky with the sun, a ball of fire, just behind the tree tops. I cursed not having my camera, or even my phone to document such a sight. The beat of the song from the local radio station picked up and I squinted my eyes […]

Today marks many firsts, and many continuing traditions: a first day of work for my partner-in-crime ML at a new and awesome architecture firm here in Austin, our pup’s unofficial-official birthday [they found him in a box, in a field, out in the Hill Country, and I think mis-read their birth dates by a month […]