Osborne Farm Semi Truck

The Osborne Farm semi truck. I would have loved to have seen this truck in its glory days with my grandpa, "Bud" (can you see his name written on the door?) driving horses to and from the race track. But as you can see this truck has been in this exact location for a very, very long time. There is a tree growing through the middle of it! Thats kind of incredible. I would love to have this truck, tree and all, if I ever get a big piece of land. I just completely love it!

Outfit Details

Top || Kohls

Skirt & Necklace || Forever 21

Shoes || Target

Flora Focus || Lilac

Lilacs are probably the best smelling flower that bloom in the spring. If you bring a small bouquet of them into your house, you will soon be smelling the sweet, fresh scent in every room, they are that fragrant. And I love it. You can see them in the wildflower, roadside bouquet I made last week. They are quite the statement flower!

Lilac
Botanical Name: Syringa spp.
Flower: Blooms in spring and can be white, purple or pink. Large clusters of small tubular flowers. Clusters can get up to 8 inched long. Very fragrant.
Leaf: Leaves are oval to heart shaped with a smooth margin, 5 inches long.
Meaning: First emotions of love

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Backyard Spring Bouquet

Hello! I hope everyones weeks are going good so far. Yesterday I spent some time in the yard picking flowers and decided to make a little tiny arrangement out of them. I have been loving experimenting with different flowers and figuring out what I think goes together and different color combinations. What you see in this little posy are really the only flowers blooming in the yard right now.

If you wanted to create this yourself, the recipe is..

3 stems anemone

3 stems ranunculus 

4 stems scabiosa

1 branch of a dogwood

1 stem snapdragon (its hiding in the back)

And I don't know the name if that little pink flower with the variegated leaf in the bottom right…

Have you created any arrangements or bouquets lately? If you have link them below, I would love to see!

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April in Review

So yeah, 1 photo a day is hard. I really didn't think it would be that difficult, but it is. I just must be to lazy to whip out my phone and take a picture of those mundane activities. So instead here are the few photos I posted to Instagram in April. I also just realized that all of the pictures have to do with flowers. Floral obsessed maybe? Yes.

Favorite posts from last month…

Whats the Big Deal?

Flora Focus || Anemone & Ranunculus 

The Rome Dress

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival 

Roadside Bouquet

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First Taste of Summer

I feel like its been a long time since I have posted an outfit. Not cool. So here I am! Last week we had some gorgeous weather! Like mid 70s, low 80s weather. I even got a little tiny bit of color. When the temperature hits 80 degrees in western Washington, it becomes too hot. Im one of those that just cannot handle the heat. I am definitely from the west side of the state. While western WA is dying in 80 degrees, eastern WA is thriving. Its a desert over there. Normal summer temps are in the 90s. I don't know how I spent 3 summers over there.
So, who is like me out there and can't handle the high temperatures?

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Outfit Details

Dress || Target

Vest || Thrifted

Sandals || Forever 21

Bracelet || My mom made it

Fresh From the Field Wedding Flowers || Giveaway!

I am so excited to write this post for you guys but have no idea where to start, I have so much I want to say! So I'll just start from the beginning :)

I know that some of you are new readers, (Hello there!) and may not know that I have a degree in Landscape, Nursery and Greenhouse Management and a certificate in Organic Agriculture from WSU... Go Cougs! So, I love watching things grow and creating gorgeous outdoor areas and working with flowers and plants of all kind. I thought I wanted to work in a nursery, and I did for 3 amazing summers, but during that time I realized I had some major love for the flowers and desperately wanted to create gorgeous bouquets and arrangements and garlands and flower crowns and anything else I could. So I started researching floral design and different florists. I came across the incredible world of farmer florists that I had no idea existed. And I became obsessed with this idea.

The first farmer florist I came across was Erin Benzakein from Floret. I was so unbelievably excited to find out that she was a florist that grew her own flowers, she had a blog and she was from Skagit Valley. 1 hour away from me! Its always amazing to find someone local. This discovery led me to many other flower farmers and floral designers and just fueled my desire to learn all I could.

I was so ecstatic to hear that Erin was working on a book with Lynn Byczynski for aspiring flower farmers, floral designers and DIY brides, Fresh From the Field Wedding Flowers. I fit 2 of those categories! I waited patiently for its release and was so grateful when they sent over 2 copies, 1 for me to read and review and 1 to giveaway to one of you! I read the whole book and watched all of the 75 minutes of video (yep! it comes with a DVD!) the day I got it.

This book is all about the local flower movement. Buying and designing with local flowers. It is more geared toward that DIY bride who wants to create her own flowers for the big day. If that is you, I cannot recommend this book enough. I am helping a friend with her wedding in August and this book answered so many questions, some I didn't even know I had. Seriously, you need this book if you are doing your own flowers or helping a friend or family member with theirs. It has everything you need to know about finding, buying and designing with local flora.

If you want to know more about the art of arranging, it covers all of that too. All of the tools you need and the techniques. The DVD is SUPER helpful with this aspect of the book. And have I mentioned the insane amount of gorgeous photos? So much inspiration.

They end it with information on a lot of the popular cut flowers and with a list of different farmers and florists across the country using and growing local flora.

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Flora Focus || Bluebells & Honesty

Remember that bouquet I made a couple days ago with the wild blue and purple flowers? Im here to tell you a little more about them :) Im pretty sure wild flowers are my favorite. If anybody knows of any wildflower meadows, please point me in its direction. Im dying to find one.

Bluebells
Botanical Name: Hyacinthoides
Flower: Each stem produces 5-12 long, tubular violet-blue flowers with the end of the petal curved backed. Some have a very sweet scent.
Leaf: Long and linear, producing 3-6.
Meaning: Constancy

Honesty
Botanical Name: Lunaria annua
Flower: Violet to white flowers, with round petals in the spring, followed by a showy translucent disc that is the seed pod.
Leaf: Large and oval ending in a point and with serrated edges.
Meaning: Honesty