going daffy...

 

our little town LOVES daffodils...right now they're blooming all along the bayou and at the turn you make to come into town. last week i picked a few and couldn't believe how many different kinds were blooming....i really thought that there were two kinds...white with yellow centers, and yellow with yellow centers. wrong!

 

they're my favorite signs of the coming springtime...it turns out that I DO NOT have a knack for arranging flowers, (ask anyone who's seen my previous attempts) BUT this time, I think like my own arrangement better than this one

too bad i have to leave the warm, spring-ish weather for detroit, michigan this afternoon.... i hear it's 20 degrees there right now. hmpf.

garden club material?

love. this.


this week i (really..ME! biz!) was invited to our new little town's garden club. of course i can't go because i've planned meetings ALL day on Wednesday...but just to be asked is pretty fun. honestly, i'm probably not the delta garden club material...but my mama is a 1st place winner at the garden club of america's flower show (she did the MOST FANTASTIC dolly parton arrangements with cantelopes), so maybe arranging flowers and cultivating bulbs is in my blood, after all. ;)

either way, i'd love to have these pretty things by one of our windows... if i could pull it off i bet i'd be garden club material. thoughts?



















image here.

flower power...

i found these soft spring photos over at joe's blog... i thought they were the perfect homage to the pollen wars being waged (and won) by flowers all over atlanta this week.



we're laying low this weekend...hope your time off is just what you need.

beaucoups of bottles...

love the beaker!






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introducing...sweet p flowers!

apparently all the creative people i know are in the wedding business...

my dearest friend kathryn is a super-famous wedding blogger, my new friend erin is the toast of the wedding invitations world, my mom is getting into calligraphy of all sorts, and now palmer and her pretty mama are kicking off sweet p, what promises to be a really successful floral endeavor! palmer's work has been shown in house beautiful and atlanta homes and lifestyles magazines and her mama has tons of experience designing lovely arrangements.


i'd be lying if i said i didn't feel a little bit of jealousy that i'm not in on the wedding-related action (although the plan is for me to help my mom a bit after graduation) if only i could sew well enough to make gowns or something...

anyway, if you're in the southeast and are looking for a totally talented floral team (they think to put thistles and hydrangeas together! who else does that?) check out sweet p's portfolio... you won't be disappointed.

happy weekend...

just wanted you to know...


from ffffound

undeserved birthday bliss...

a little birthday update:
dancing on friday night was absolutely WONDERFUL. in fact, the whole weekend tops my list of birthdays by far... i wish everyone had been there to enjoy the hospitality and kindheartedness of the regular contra-folk.
thanks boone for being so, so good to me. (and for making me funfetti cupcakes and finding me a bike!)


and to my mom for her perfectly hand calligraphied birthday card...


and thanks to all you sweet friends for the wishes, and to those of you who were my dance partner on friday night, and to esta for the unexpected basketball tickets (in GREAT seats),

to ABC for the pizza date and goodies, to carli for hosting a birthday dinner and being flexible about the plans. plus a big thank you to jon for the delish chocolate pound cake,

and to palmer for these lovely flowers (can you see the thistles? isn't she brilliant?)


it was a truly magical birthday and i didn't deserve it. and i don't deserve my wonderful friends, but i'm sure thankful for them!

have your cake and eat it too...

y'all, will you indulge me just a few more wedding photo posts? I know it's narcissistic and frivolous, but it's so FUN for me to have photos of all our stuff in one place. ;) anyway, don't worry.. there's can't possibly be too many more after this one... and now, for the cake!

i think that the groom's cake was one of my fav details about our reception...

so, boone wanted little apple pies instead of a traditional cake, and my parents (who are brilliant and generous) and this sweet lady, Tex (who's like a great aunt) made this incredibly huge apple pie from scratch plus a zillion teeny bite-size apple pies. they were fantastic...




and here's the wedding cake... i didn't want one at all, but i couldn't get off the hook about it. we had to go with a professional for this one which was disappointing, but in the end it was delish and v. pretty.


photos from esta and joe.

our flowers...

i realized that i never posted pictures of our flowers... they were gorgeous, y'all. we don't have a ton of direct photos of the arrangements and bouquets, but i'll share what i've got. basically i asked for everything to be loose in feel and classic in style... to be as locally-grown as possible. it was all perfect.
here's a two-for-one photo... the baby's breath wreath on the door where we stood to say our vows and the men's boutonnieres. one single gardenia and a leaf.

here's my bouquet... gardenias from my neighbor's garden, peonies, verbena, rosemary, and oak leaf hydrangeas. i think everything but the peonies were locally grown.



and my maid's bouquets (they were the same as mine, but a little smaller) and here you can see the rosemary garland that our flower girls carried... it was so sweet!

randy, our florist designed this incredible floral chandelier to hang above the dance floor... can you tell from the photos how INCREDIBLE it looked?


we had lovely arrangements on the banisters of the staircase.. the day before we went on a hunt around town for local smylax and elaeagnus, plus we had hydrangeas and baby's breath... We had similar arrangements on the dining room table and around.



and here are a few other images of arrangements... same flowers as before but we used small mirrored glass votives to hold the smaller ones on the tables and all the tables were covered in burlap and battenburg lace tablecloths. :)





photos from joe, abc, and esta.

happy weekend!

have a great weekend everyone! i wish you all a bunch of daffodils and plenty of sunshine!

i don't really like roses...

i know. this is strange... and by "i don't like them" what i mean is that i have a strong preference for other kinds of flowers, but will GLADLY take any flowers that are given to me and will love and cherish them as a gift. but, given the choice, i'll pretty much always pick something else.
which is why i was pretty thrilled when my mom and i met with the really great small town local florist, randy, and he noticed that not once did i mention roses when we talked about anything. i was more than thrilled.. i was impressed.

anyway, we're going with something really loose and organic and classic looking. and we're sticking with things in season (and that hopefully we can get most of it locally) all white hydrangeas, large and small gardenias, baby's breath, sweet pea, and maybe white peonies.
something like this, maybe?

or this?


and the boutonnieres will be just one single gardenia. they just smell like magic to me and will be blooming all over my hometown in may...mmmmm.


ps-- i have no idea where i found these photos. eek! sorry.. i saved them ages ago. let me know if these are yours.