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Striving for sustainability in all things flowers💐
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One of my favorite things about being a seasonal f

One of my favorite things about being a seasonal florist is that our inventory changes each week. I sometimes work with a certain flower or color that I haven’t seen before or maybe only worked with a few times in my career.

Like these highlighter yellow dahlias. It’s such an intense color, even brighter than our Oncidium or Butterfly Ranunculus here, in person.

I love the challenge of making space for the unknown so experimentation can happen. I tried using this dahlia last week in an arrangement that just didn’t work. Unlike brain surgery, florists can just move things around if we don’t like it! This week I found it’s color combination, ah sweet success!

As the fabulous Tim Gunn says, “make it work”!

Flower crowns make excellent additions to Hallowee

Flower crowns make excellent additions to Halloween costumes 👻

Use code Halloween 2020 to get 10% off your online order!

Motherhood and entrepreneurship are a lethal combi

Motherhood and entrepreneurship are a lethal combination. We can simultaneously extract splinters while handling scheduling issues and budget without calculators while taking our kids for a walk in the park. We get shit done.

The issue is that neither job is ever done. There’s no finish line to parenthood or barometer of what’s “enough” in business. That is, often times, until our bodies start saying what our minds won’t recognize.

My eye started twitching this past weekend. Twitching like one of those future robots you see in a movie starting to malfunction. “But everything’s fine! I’m not stressed at all!”

You can fool your mind but you can’t fool your body. This time, after lots of practice rounds of where this can go, I listened to my eye twitch.

Moms don’t take mental health days. Bosses don’t take mental health days. At least, that’s what my guilt so effortlessly tries to tell me.

Now we might take off from mom life to do a work thing or take off work life to do a mom thing but never, ever, ever, do we take both off to do an us thing (at least in my experience).

So today it’s time to do something radical and take a freaking break. For folks that take care of others all the time we certainly are bad at doing it for ourselves. Like how they say “doctors make the worst patients”.

I often think our self induced guilt is tied to worthiness and control, more on that for another day, today I rest.

Love yourself, take a nap. Fuck the guilt.

Fall, “but make it weird”👌

Fall, “but make it weird”👌

Solidarity Sunday⁠, a monthly give back initiati

Solidarity Sunday⁠, a monthly give back initiative ✨
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This months' event will be a collaboration!⁠⠀
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Join @flowersforthecause on Halloween 10/31 @shopstayforever to support @bushwickayudamutua. There will be spooky dried and fresh bouquets donate by our team available for purchase 👻
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All funds will be donated to @bushwickayudamutua ⁠⠀
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Bushwick Ayuda Mutua is a grassroots, volunteer-led network of volunteers working collaboratively and connecting neighbors to respond to the needs of Bushwick neighbors during this time of crisis, including groceries deliveries, PPE and mask distribution, medicine and other supplies to those impacted by Covid-19 with an emphasis on vulnerable communities, elders, undocumented people, low-income families with children and those sick or positive to Covid-19.⁠⠀
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Show up, shop small and help out your direct community <3⁠⠀

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It’s been a defining year for everyone. Our wedd

It’s been a defining year for everyone. Our wedding clients have been rolling with the punches just like the rest of us.

Some folks have postponed, cancelled, or moved forward with a different plan! Like B+E whose psychedelic dance party at Liberty Warehouse turned into an very intimate gathering upstate at @audreysfarmhouse.

This stunning table scape (more like dreamscape am I right?) up cycled the florals from the ceremony chuppah design.

Little pieces of hope that love brings help us all look towards the future. As the night closed the wedding party was able to witness some resemblance of normal, watching the newly married couple sway into the moonlight ✨

Incredible design work by @stemsbrooklynweddings and a special thanks to our rockstar team @zahlias, @andrayamendez and @shannon.cowan for traveling upstate!

Our local season is winding down, now what? ⠀
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Every year I beat myself up because I start importing more flowers during the cold months. UGH the fossil fuels! We don't know all the farmers! I'm a SHIT PERSON AND FLORIST. ⠀
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If you are struggling with this let me bend your ear.⠀
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In my heart of hearts I would be a real purist and only source local flowers when we could, sell dried flowers in the winter months, and reopen in February. One day, maybe this will be a reality. But for now, I operate a business in one of the most expensive cities in the world, and personally, I am the sole breadwinner in my single parent household. REALITY CHECK.⠀
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Our signature style makes space for incorporating local and imported flowers YEAR ROUND. This was not accidental. I want to make sure we are supporting local flower growers not just during the summer months but throughout the entire year, and to be able to do that in any way possible, we have to successfully maintain our designs in the winter season as well which takes a lot of flowers from a lot of different places! ⠀
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Each week I am sourcing from six different vendors on average. If you are a florist you probably just threw up. The logistics can be daunting. ⠀
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So how do we try balancing the scales when winter hits? Well, we prioritize sourcing sustainably driven farms to import from and buy domestic with care. We are not perfect and sometimes have to buy what we have to at the flower market to fill the week's orders.⠀
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The point is, give yourself a break. I truly believe that to rock this industry towards sustainability then we must take the steps as we can.⠀
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So, to sum it up: ⠀
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1. We have to be real with the fact that we are trying to be BETTER not perfect. If floristry is your livelihood, it has to work on a scale that can sustainably support you and your team, all year round. ⠀
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2. It took me years to create what I feel comfortable calling an "eco conscious" business model that works towards being more sustainable as a goal through fair wages, composting, sourcing responsibly, recycling and composting materials, and creating systems that allow our team to have a work life balance. And I’m still learning!

The shop is open all weekend 💐 * hours 11am-4p

The shop is open all weekend 💐

* hours 11am-4pm
* masks required
* 4 guest limit at a time

Restocked on candles by @architectystudio and bath goodies by @among.the.flowers 💐

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