Flowers!

Spring is slowly returning (what? it's snowing outside?) and with it my desire to be surrounded by fresh flowers. I may even be able to get a job in a flower shop that is hiring to fill summer vacancies. That would be a good use of my last summer of freedom right?

I signed up for a flower arranging class on Thursday nights taught through University of Utah's community outreach program. It's taught at The Rose Shop in Sandy-ish and is lovely so far. Haley is kind enough to join me on this adventure.

For our final project we get to choose exactly what we want to do. We tell her which flowers we want and bring pictures of some type of arrangement we like and she helps us make it happen. I'm quite excited for that. I really hope the wholesaler has peonies in stock by then...

I had to reshape my parrot tulips once the arrangement started to fall apart and all the greenery died. I picked up some ranunculus at the wholesaler which I arranged in a tight bunch that I plan to dry once they've all fully bloomed.
This class is a lovely way to spend some Thursdays between now and May.



This certainly isn't the comprehensive update you all deserve, but it's a step in the right direction. Part of my reluctance to post over the last few weeks stems from the fact that my life was filled with so much of this:

and this:

and this:

so posting in a completely positive light is a challenge...

I will post this photo of a flower arrangement I saw in a Las Vegas casino. What? Rachel went to Las Vegas? Why yes I did. Details to follow...




***Please forgive the general grainy-ness of all these photos. They were taken with my phone. I don't need to remind you why...***