My youngest employee

As I have been sorting through pictures there have been so many memories from the summer that when I found this one I had to blog about it right now :)

We had a wedding at the Wildflower Center this summer where we had to hang floral balls in the butterfly garden. Whelp, I hate ladders but yet I always find myself agreeing to do things in high places (there is a really good story about this I will share later).
Now Richard (my husband) will always step up the plate and go to the highest of highs to achieve my ultimate designs. But we always end up fighting about it....
For some time now Richard's Sister and Brother-in-law have been offering to help out with wedding deliveries. So on this particular day I called them into help. Knowing that if Jim went up the ladder Richard and I might have a peaceful wedding delivery :)

Here is Jim's action shot!


So you are probably wondering why this post is entitled "my youngest employee"....
Although Jim would probably love to have the title it actually goes to his daughter Madison.

Madison is the newest addition to the Supervisory Team at Fiori Del Sole.

Here is Maddie with the Scorpion Sculpture at the Wildflower Center. (Badge Photo?!?)

Maddie came along to supervise and help out where needed. She was an incredible help and even carried around that flower all afternoon in case I needed it! She also handed me ribbons and I feel that she gave her seal of approval as she smiled when she saw the different arrangements.

Now I know you can make the argument that she is too young to be employed, we did treat her very well by ensuring she take her mandatory breaks. Here she is checking out the frogs in one of the many ponds on the grounds. (She still has the back up flower!) Oh and with her is her assistant Karen (Richard's Sister), yes Maddie has an assistant...she is a very important person in the ranks of Fiori Del Sole.

Now she is telling us to wrap it up! It is wedding time!!

Thanks Jim, Karen, and Maddie for helping us delivery a beautiful wedding and keeping us entertained in the process.

Here is the finished project of the ceremony site.

More to come...

So I haven't fulfilled my promise of a new blog but I am in the process of sorting through pictures from the summer months and I will do a summer blog extravaganza ~ Promise, Promise!

But until then, here are some of my favorites from the summer:

This was from the KNOT party in Austin just a few weeks ago. It was a lot of fun decorating for this "Green" Event. One of my favorite aspects was this moss table complete with succulents and sanded Manzanita Trees which had Yellow Cymbidium Orchids blooming from the branches.

We dropped off this wedding in Round Rock a few weeks ago and found this bench outside the venue and I loved how this picture of bouquets turned out. These bouquets smelled so good, I can still smell them from looking at the picture (and I never notice these things anymore, people always tell me how good the shop or studio smell and I just take their word for it but I could completely smell these!) Bouquet have Tulips, Thistle, Freesia, Stock, Hypericum, Scabosia, Yoko Onos, Scented Geranium Leaves, and other herbs and pods.

Chuppah at the Four Seasons, I love getting the opportunity to work with Mancino's Iron (http://www.mancinoiron.com/ ) and in the last couple of months I have gotten to on several occasions. This turned out so delicate and soft, and we used chair sashes to tie off the material covering the iron so it wouldn't flow away. We used Hydrangea, Tulips, Peonies, Roses, Callas, and Greenery.

What a fun Flower Girl basket! The vibrant colors make me happy. The basket contains Anemones, Stock, Tulips, and fresh moss.

Now the Bride didn't order this exactly but I loved her so much and there was a meeting that I went to the wrong place and it was kinda of a disaster so I made some little "extras" for her the day of the wedding. I loved this arrangement so much that the week after the wedding I made a replica of it for my own home. Now for being a floral designer I hardly ever have flowers in my house (but I have been changing that this past summer)! It was so pretty for so long, I amazed myself. Vase contains Tulips, Gerberas, Roses, Seeded Euc, and these AWESOME hot pink Freesia out of California - (PS. I love California flowers).

Sorry to leave you guys hanging...but till the next time...hope someone makes your day with flowers :)

Terri