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For me, floral design is all about making magic and telling stories. Of course there’s quite a lot more to it than that — a whole world of conceptualization, planning, stem calculating, flower ordering, logistics, processing, keeping blooms fresh, building mechanics, hauling buckets, a zillion things that fall under the term ‘labor’, and more — but those two things, magic and story, are the lighthouse, the heading, the goal.
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Floristry offers a medium through which we can craft and invite experiences. Through the rich process we also go through our own experiences, hit walls, reconfigure, find grace, lose hope, find hope, take risks, heal, evolve, and expand into deeper understanding both of craft and of self. Being a guide for my students in this process is incredibly rewarding for me.
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This moment is from a recent 1:1 Floristry Class on foam-free floral installations for my lovely student designer Romina, a concept crafted to celebrate the early September heat blaze we experience here in Southern California through creating a realm of hanging floral suns (which, by the way, stayed fresh through the night and the next morning, even in the blazing sun).
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Huge thanks to my amazing friend @mandyfordphotography for her stand-out photography skills and talent that she brought to the class and this photo as well as her zest for life and creativity. 💛 #nectarandbloom #poetflorist #nectarpoems #poetryofflowers #notesfromnectarandbloom #nectarandbloomclasses #nectarandbloomworkshops #floristryclass #floralworkshop #nofloralfoam

Little box of wonder //// Happy Saturday, sweet friends! #nectarandbloom #poetflorist #poetryofflowers

Life is a trip. A wonder, and a trip. When you need something, look for it. Seek it with curiosity and gratitude, trusting that it is coming to you already.
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If you feel panic or impatience, have compassion with yourself. Do something grounding. Nature is the most patient, persistent, enduring, and beautiful example of groundedness, and she’s everywhere all around us.
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If you lose faith, turn your attention to trust, and trust that you’re not actually lost. What you seek wants to find you, wants to flood in and join you where you need it.
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I’m working on all of these things myself, and I want always to share them with you because I believe we have such an innately relatable humanness in our deepest level of experience.
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It doesn’t matter the thing you seek or need — it’s that you are seeking, so look for signs of it, instead of looking for how it’s lacking. Make little shifts in your mindset and huge waves of positive change appear.
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The biggest trip of all is that what you need you already have inside you, and often the seeking is really just our quest to find the way back home to ourselves.
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Photograph by the lovely @pineandsea_photo from a 1:1 Class this summer 💛 #nectarandbloom #poetflorist #nectarlovenotes #notesfromnectarandbloom #poetryofflowers

//// Symbols within symbols, such // are the amulets of language, pearls // on floss, stones on gravity, we stack // and string meaning, a whole weather we // sound out the way sun // writes its name on water //// #nectarandbloom #poetflorist #nectarpoems #poemsbynectarandbloom #poetryofflowers #poetry
Photograph by @elinejacobine ✨

Intention + action = doing what matters. What you do matters. You matter. Whether everyone sees what you share or nobody sees what you accomplish in solitude, what actions you take with intention and heart move energy, make ripples, impact others, inspire, matter.
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You matter to me. Your support and comments and messages that I get to hear and feel matter to me. Your creative brilliance and flawed humanness and beautiful heart matter to me. Thank you for sharing that kind of natural amazingness with me and everyone around you.
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Even if, especially if, doing what matters means taking time to recharge and fill back up, or reflecting for a moment on your next move or step forward into your calling, it matters, and it’s worth it. Have an amazing Tuesday 💛🙌 #nectarandbloom #poetflorist #nectarlovenotes #notesfromnectarandbloom #poetryofflowers

//// Of pearl, gong, and gold // bells, of story braided from silk and // melon, impossible, and yet happening, each // second a splinter // of possibility, colossal and tuned // to the chord of C, which // you can visualize if you just // try to behold it ... //// #nectarandbloom #poetflorist #nectarpoems #poemsbynectarandbloom #poetryofflowers #poetry

A lot of healing can happen in learning about beauty, allowing yourself to be with beauty, permitting yourself to make and seek beauty and just *be* the beauty that you are.
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Imperfections, uncertainty, frustration, and loss are all part of beauty, just as much as joy, discovery, inspiration, and radiance are.
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All of wisdom — another of life’s ever-unfolding beauties — is gathered through experience, no matter whether perceived as good or bad, pleasant or difficult. The beauty of wisdom comes as we lean in and see what happens when we walk forward into the richness of life.
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Working with flowers teaches me constantly, and as a practice it often shows me where I am hardest on myself or, when I peel back the layers, where I am hurting. This practice, like yoga, also shows me that I have strength and ability yet to discover as well as healing to allow, which I need to see in order to move through it.
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There is such beauty for me in seeing how wisdom comes walking in with one hand holding pain and the other hand holding empowerment, both equally — and such is beauty.
#nectarandbloom #poetflorist #poetryofflowers #nectarnotes #nectarlovenotes
Photograph by the loveliest @mandyfordphotography 💗

I grew up on big, wild land — pastures of clover beneath my feet, hackberry trees, walnuts, and starry maples all around me, poplar trees sounding like rushing water in the wind.
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I grew up on acres of farmland surrounded by acres of farmland, great rectangular swaths of soybeans and corn, their long and fragrant rows opening long sun-bright dirt paths as you passed, banks of trees like forests of giant broccoli bursting up between — wind blocks or markers of fence lines between farms.
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I grew up next to a horse boarding farm, and took apples and handfuls of the brightest high grasses to feed the big nodding heads on their tawny, muscular necks as they extended gracefully over the low barbed wire.
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I grew up shoulder deep in Queen Anne’s lace, picking wild blackberries, watching blue jays and the occasional blue heron glide overhead. I am in love with this world, the vanishing farm I left behind, and I know I seek to touch it as I create and teach with flowers.
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There are worlds inside each of us, some we came with and some we came into, and they speak, softly — a home that guides us back where we feel truth and belonging. Listen...
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Photograph by my talented friend @elinejacobine 💛

If you would like to have an immersive, empowering, color-story rich, wellness-infused, heart-opening, confidence-instilling, community building, flower-filled, environmentally-responsible, and hands-on creative experience, I want to hear from you.
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My 1:1 classes and group workshops are for you, and they provide space and support for you to dive into this gloriously inspiring medium and come back filled up, full of tools, tips, and tricks, and feeling more capable of accessing your innate super powers for creating beauty.
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Our #nofloralfoam intentional installations workshop is coming up on September 15th, 2019, and I would love to have you with us. Reach out! Give this experience to your yearning, creative self!
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#flowersareempowerment #nectarandbloom #poetflorist #nectarandbloomworkshops #nectarandbloomclasses #floristryclass #floralworkshop #poetryofflowers #floralladderbynectarandbloom #floralladder

//// Kaleidoscope, the soft walk of shining // options, each twist of foil caught in hot noon, each // syllable a skirt pleat falling in another direction, but I // nearly caught the dream by its ribbon tail, swim // as it did into the back of dawn, her // prism my window ... //// #nectarandbloom #poetflorist #nectarpoems #poemsbynectarandbloom #poetryofflowers #poetry #poemoftheday
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Pictured is my demo bouquet from our recent Abundant Summer Bouquets Workshop, featuring some beautiful local organic blooms from @psalterfarmflowers and also a burst peony or two, looking enraptured and romantic even days after the bouquet’s debut 💐🙌🥰🤸🏼‍♀️ #nectarandbloomworkshops #floralworkshop

I love self assessments. Little tests and methods of seeing more clearly (or in specific terms or circumstances) who we are I find fascinating, useful, and also just amusing. I love that you are here joining me on this creative and transformative journey, and I thought I’d share with you a few of my own assessment results so you can know me a bit better (or at least some amusing categorizations and intriguing details 🥰🙌💐) —
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I am ...
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Enneagram Number: 3 The Achiever
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Ayurvedic constitution of Pitta-Vata
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Myers-Briggs / 16 Personalities Type ENFJ: The Protagonist
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Hogwarts House: Gryffindor (this one I did for you @opheliafloralco 🥰😂🙌)
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Numerology Number: 8
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Astrological Sign: Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Gemini
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The 4 Tendencies Type: Upholder
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Birthday Tarot Card: The Magician
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Spirit Animal: Horse
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Birth Order: Middle
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Love Languages: verbal affirmation + physical touch (but really all of them)
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Ok what are your favorite assessments and self reflection tools? Which have served you best or brought you the most amusement?
Photograph by @mandyfordphotography 💗
#nectarandbloom #poetflorist #nectarlovenotes .

Happy September, lovers and lovelies! May the month be brimming with joy as palpable as that of our beautiful bride Vishwa and her remarkable family whose verve and adoration on her wedding day fully made me tear up—such is the radiance of joy. Seek it! Enjoy it. #nectarandbloom #poetflorist #nectarlovenotes
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Coordination/Design: @bluelotusinsights
Venue: @brick.828
Photo/Video: @kapsuleco
Florals: @nectar_and_bloom
Hair & Makeup: @dolledupbylulu
DJ & Lighting: @sodjLA
Entertainment: @ronobirla
Catering: @sumitsharma_mantra
Catering: @mihocateringco
Transportations: @hayneschauffeuring
Henna Artist: @hennasandiego
Dressing: @hennabyrupal
Rentals: @cedarandpineevents
Rentals: @platinumeventrentals
Rentals: @adorefolklore
Drinks: @BellaBeverageCatering
Desserts: @sweetcheecksbakingco
Desserts: @unclebiffs

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