What's up buttercup!

Hellooooo...is anyone still out there?  Long time no blog.
Well if you are wondering, "What happened to Fiori Del Sole?" here is an explanation and a plan.

I lovingly ran Fiori Del Sole with the help of my Husband and Family and many others along the way...for all of my married life.  My Husband and I throughout this have always wanted a child, but the business was always our child.  One day we decided to try to cut back to have more time for ourselves, but that was hard because not only were we running Fiori Del Sole full time for weddings and events we also had a retail flower shop in my home town of Seguin.  About the time that all of this was going through our minds a wonderful opportunity came my way to work with a charitable organization that I had been on the board of for years.

To my amazement I was chosen for this job, which is part time, and thus began the juggle of essentially three jobs.  I know, I know...trying to cut back remember.  Well that was the tipping point.  It became clear that something had to go, the retail shop was my least favorite and so began a transition of either closing or selling.  Whelp we are definitely being looked after because our prayers were answered and we were able to sell the retail shop a year after seeking out a buyer.   We were actually within two months of closing the doors if we did not have a buyer and selling off what we could and storing the rest.  It couldn't have happened at a better time.   The moment however was bittersweet.  The shop had become a tribute to my late Grandmother so on that note I was sad to let go of it, and it was something I was doing with my Mother so that also made it hard to see it sold.

Now onto Fiori Del Sole, I LOVE wedding and event floral. I LOVE being a part of the special days of soooo many wonderful people.  Typing this right now I MISS it sooooo MUCH!  But my Husband and I had NEVER in our married life together had a multiple weekends off in a row together.  If your job doesn't involve you working weekends, think about what you do on your weekends...those things, we never had done those things.  I longed to do those things.  Then the stress, I took each wedding and each event with me at all times, I agonized over each detail and labored over every petal.  Because you  only have "one change" to have the "perfect" day.  I needed to give that to each client I worked with.
It became obvious, without taking some time off we would never have the child we dreamed of...the child that I had wanted every since I played house as a little girl, thinking of what it would be like to have a family of my own "when I grew up".  With that I stopped taking on new clients.
In January of 2010 I did my last wedding for a dear high school friend.  I have not taken on a new wedding since.  Our plan was to take a year off and evaluate at the end of that time and see where we are with the baby plan and go from there.

Currently, as of this post I am not pregnant.  But we are actively trying.  Your happy thoughts on the matter are greatly appreciated!

I hope that in a year I can come back into taking on a wedding here and there because we have been able to get on track with a baby plan.  Luckily I have the charity management job to help in the household.  But I do miss the creativity of Fiori Del Sole.

This past week I started brainstorming a plan to put Fiori Del Sole to use again in the meantime.   I want to make it a place for people with floral questions to come and hopefully I can answer, if not I will work to find the answer and we learn together.  Do you think that will be helpful?  If so what would you like to see on a helpful floral website??

Any comments, suggestions are welcome.  Thanks for checking in with me and I hope this explains things...