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I struggled with this design, because I wanted it to be perfect. More than perfect. Show-stopping. I didn’t have a recipe or guidelines to follow, just piles of things to choose from. Unlimited options. The harder I tried, the more frustrated I got, because the pride and perfectionism got in the way. I wasn’t motivated by wanting to make someone smile... I was wanting to impress. What a yucky thing to realize. Design is so connected to my heart, and when my heart is bound up by fear, pride, and selfishness, it chokes up that I create. I couldn’t finish this piece til I acknowledged the pride and ate a slice of humble pie. Crazy how flowers are a mirror for my soul, a heart gauge. It’s exposing, but needed at times. I’m thankful that God is always using people and things and even flowers to reveal places in my heart that need to be cleaned out. Thankful that he doesn’t leave me in my mess. He loves me enough to bring me out and make yucky places new. One dahlia at a time.

Studio pups 🐾

Sea Oats from @wollamgardens - such floppy, dancing little things. They aren’t by the sea, but they sure do sway like they are in a sea breeze!

The most beautiful fall backdrop for Audrey and Christian’s wedding celebration 💛

Made with love and 100% local ingredients for my dear friend @audreyged . I love how it turned out! It was also a fun design challenge to work with different ingredients- not one single rose, and very minimal greens! I also struggle with using dahlias, but this beauty was packed with them, and that was really freeing. I couldn’t turn to comfortable, “safe” ingredients and had to push my limits. The result was worth it. #srvgreywall @wollamgardens @sweetrootvillage

Happiest of birthdays to this girl! Her hard work, persistence, and sense of humor are such an encouragement to me. She SEES light and darkness, and how the two interact with and through each other, better than anyone I know. She’s a ray of sunshine not because she is bouncy and bright and cheery all the time, but because she cuts through the darkness. Like a sunbeam, despite the gray of dawn, or dusk, or just cloudy times. I really can say that my little sister has taught me to see with different eyes. What a gift. Love you @bekah_seiler

Oh hey there, beautiful. Love how this one came together for a @cristinacalvertsignature wedding last weekend. Thankful that @sweetrootvillage puts beautiful things like this in my hands.

Working with a counselor to dig up anxiety and fear, and they explained that all fear has the same three roots- safety, control, and certainty. Part of getting it out of your life is figuring out which root it is coming from. It’s been interesting and convicting to think about this week. Too often I just see fear as fear and don’t go past that, getting bogged down in the fear itself. And then fear wins. And I’m not a fan of that. . Safety-the condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury. Welfare, well-being Denoting something designed to prevent injury or damage. . Control- the power to influence or direct people's behavior or the course of events. A means of limiting or regulating something. . Certainty- a firm conviction that something is the case. The quality of being reliably true. A fact that is definitely true or an event that is definitely going to take place. Confidence, sureness

This stem of tricolor leucothoe was so pretty I literally couldn’t use it. I kept putting it back in the bucket, not wanting to chop it up. We go through thousands of stems, but I love when one just stops me and makes me look at it. I hope I never loose the wonder... the ability to see little beauties, little rays of grace, even in the hustle of bustle of work.

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