Gretchen's Samples

In between Thanksgiving festivities, windy day walks down to the river to throw rocks with Alice, Client meetings and emails, building new galleries for our website, planning upcoming workshop dates, and (yikes) possibly beginning shopping for Christmas (oh dear!)...I have been admiring these pretty images of Gretchen's samples.

I just feel all warm and bubbly when I see those little cosmos whisping about. Don't they just make you smile?

James and Lynette!

A little summer reminiscing on this blustery cool autumn day. Big clouds in the dark and brilliant sky today. Something so special about the light on a day like today. It is cold/brilliant and warm/fuzzy all at the same time.

This sweet wedding at Saddlerock was featured on Wedding Chicks some time ago...photographs by the lovely Joy Harmon Prouty of Wildflower Photography. How's that? Yes our business names are almost identical...

I loved this couple and loved their approach to the day, which was very fun and frivolous. Picnic blankets at the ceremony, grape soda buttons, balloons, fun yellow bridesmaids' dresses from anthro. This one was actually hard to leave. Wanted to stay and celebrate with them through the night (if I wasn't so dead tired I might have). It was a fun group to say the least!
my favorite thing ever...BLUEBERRY greens!!! I wish I could have them all the time.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving all.

























a little personalized note straight from Pixar!

Temptress

That was lovely, marvelous, thrilling, fun, exhausting, and so fulfilling! The November Workshop has come and gone.
Now taking suggestions from YOU.


WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE US TO HOST FUTURE WORKSHOPS?




locations on the table...Napa, Chicago, Santa Fe, Australia...
no place too dull, no place too exotic, just throwing it out there. Let me know what you think!
image by Jose Villa

musings on teaching

I will be teaching our second workshop this week...and I must admit I'm pretty excited. This is better than Christmas, or goodie bags or jelly filled doughnuts. I'm not sure what to expect, how the days will unfold, unravel, how the flowers will come to be, what my attendees will teach me! There are lessons to be learned, fun to be had, wine to be drunk, flowers to be arranged, hours of creating just for the sake of it.
I have had great teachers. And some not so great. But isn't teaching the most dynamic experience? Isn't there one teacher in your life who truly made an impact, who changed the way you saw things, who believed in you, who showed you something you couldn't see all by yourself? I'm pretty sure I'm not that teacher - but I want to be! Who knows...maybe with a little help from my worldly little Alice(modeling a lovely hair wreath above) we will be in good shape. To top it all off some of my favorite people will be there. (though not all of them...you know who you are.) Can't wait to share everything here when we emerge on the other side!




some flowers for now...and later. I just love this clematis vine!

Catching up

Just a week until the Workshop!!! I am really looking forward to this and have a wonderful group of attendees and some amazing vendors- PLUS a beautiful location, flowers and so on to make it all so fun. I actually can't sleep some nights thinking about all of the possibilities. So...even though I have some more published work to show off I thought a few images from the studio would be a better fit for how I'm feeling right now. Really wanting to get back to my roots and explore how to show other people how to design, how to break it down, simplify it and make is accessible and enjoyable. Not actually an easy task, I find, as I start to take it all apart step by step, and begin to work backwards through my own process and evolution. But really that's just what it is...an evolution. Always changing, always altering my approach, maybe in a different mood, maybe just working with unfamiliar materials. Here are a few images from this summer's wedding which I really love.