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Floral Art for Snohomish Art Showcase

Ioana Diaconu Floral Dress - Botanical dress for a woodland fairy

Fleurs Creative Studio participated in the 2023 Snohomish Art Showcase. Fleurs Creative aspires to support and inspire floral designers while simultaneously sharing flowers as an art form with the public. On display at this public event were the works of six local floral design artists. We are pleased to share them with you here, along […]

Get to know Eugenia Harris of Nicewicz Peonies

Peppermint Peony from Nicewicz Family Farm

I first met Eugenia Harris via instagram this past spring. I was in search of Peonies in Massachusetts and put out a request online, a few people in-the-know of local farmers suggested I reach out to Eugenia of Nicewicz Peonies. She and I had a great connection online and I could hardly wait to visit […]

Fabulous Florist :: Grace Flowers Hawaii

Grace Flowers Hawaii - tropical flower bouquets for a wedding

I first met Alison Higgins of Grace Flowers in Hawaii back in August of 2018. I was on the island working on a project with Hitomi Gilliam AIFD and as we were pulling together components for a conference we leaned on Grace Flowers for local support. I was familiar with Grace Flowers because a dear […]

Colorado Flower Collective

Bringing you a guest post today from Mandy Hess of MJM Designs in Denver, Colorado. Mandy interviewed Stefanie Hofmeister, owner and founder of the Colorado Flower Collective in Denver, Colorado. The Collective brings together many flower farms throughout Colorado to one location for local floral designers to be able to source from without driving to […]

South of France ~ An Idyllic Flower Journey

South of France ~ An Idyllic Flower Journey Somewhere down a winding country road, an hour south of Toulouse, there lies a tiny medieval village where copper artisans are hard at work on their wares. It is here, in Durfort, among unspoiled scenery of the Pyrenees mountain range that we discover a slow-living, authentic French […]

Make More Money Doing What You Love by Alison Ellis

The quickest way to make more money in your floral business is to do more of what you love and less of what you don’t love. There is always going to be some aspect of running our business that we don’t love…some things we simply MUST do (either because it’s the law or because someone […]