Mother's Day Flowers - Orders Now Open!

Treat your momma right this year! Mother's Day is May 8 - are you ready yet?

I'm really excited to be offering Mother's Day flowers this year, to help you show your mom how special she is. On offer this year are fresh, springy cut bouquets, in 3 sizes:

Mini ($15 each) - 1 stem of garden rose or peony with pretty touches
Standard ($25 each) - standard cut bouquet with springy mix of flowers
Premium ($75 each) - medium size bouquet with the addition of premium flowers (peony or garden rose)

Pick up available from our North Kildonan studio on FRIDAY, MAY 6 between 12-7 pm.
Delivery available to specified neighbourhoods on SATURDAY, MAY 7 starting at 11 am.*

*Delivery is available to: North Kildonan (free of charge!), East Kildonan, West Kildonan, Bird's Hill, and North Main.
$7 delivery charge plus applicable taxes. 

WE'LL ALSO BE POPPING UP AT JENNA RAE CAKES ON SATURDAY, MAY 7! BOUQUETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE BAKERY FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED.

ALL MOTHER'S DAY ORDERS NEED TO BE PRE-PAID AND PLACED BY FRIDAY, APRIL 29.
PLEASE NOTE THAT AS EACH BOUQUET WILL BE MADE FRESH, THEY MAY NOT BE EXACTLY AS PICTURED. 

Why I Will Always Keep Learning

It is so important to keep learning.

As a business owner, it can be incredibly easy to find yourself stuck in the day-to-day, working through invoices, wholesale orders, timelines, vase shipments, and so on. Sometimes, when you're stuck in those things, it can be hard to remember to dream. And if I never started to dream in the first place, then I certainly wouldn't be where I am now--so why would I allow myself to stop dreaming for the future? 

Becoming stagnant is one of the worst things that a company can do. Take the taxi industry, for example. Every taxi company did all the same things for how many years...until Uber came along. And with one little app, the company is changing the entire industry. Perhaps, if one of those other taxi companies had dreamed a little more along the way, they wouldn't be suffering so much now.

As a business owner, the last thing that I want to do is become stagnant--the idea of offering my brides the same things as every other floral designer, or the same style and offerings that have been available to Winnipeg brides for the last how many years--well, that thought just doesn't interest me at all.

So, how do I keep learning and growing? Well, I'm going to be out of the studio next week, heading down to Dallas to learn from one of my flower idols, Bows & Arrows! I love the opportunity to attend workshops and aim to do so once a year. For the last two years, I've gone down to North Carolina to attend Team Flower Workshop where I've expanded my design skills, studied business applications, and grown my mind in wonderful ways. I've taken online courses on bouquet design, centrepiece design, ceremony design along with wedding styling and the less-exciting topics of taxes and finances. And I've loved ALL of it. 

So, with that, I'll leave you all the promise that I will keep learning and growing, investing in my craft, always with the goal of providing my brides with the best possible wedding experience I can give them. 

Photos by Holly Carlisle Photography from my time at Team Flower Workshop last spring.

Thank You! ~ A Year in Review of Winnipeg Weddings

Wow. First of all, I can't believe that 2015 is already at its end. And secondly, what a year it has been! 

Photo by Holly Gillson Photography

2015 marked the first full year of Stone House Creative's existence. Since I launched SHC in June 2014, I've had such amazing opportunities. In 2015, I've had the pleasure of: 
Completing 32 weddings
Designing 166 bridal and bridesmaid bouquets
Using 1300 stems of roses (I always thought I didn't like roses...I was very wrong!)
Connecting with really amazing Winnipeg wedding vendors
Coordinating a tent wedding in a rainstorm
Playing the role of florist and bridesmaid, all in one day
Visiting a flower farm and building friendships with other local florists

I'm so thankful to all of my couples. Thank you for trusting me with your wedding flowers, thank you for letting me go wild with ideas, and thank you for your kind words and referrals. I have had so much fun. 

And 2016? I'm ready for you. I have some of THE most amazing weddings and couples lined up and I am so excited for them. I was just looking through all of my weddings for next year the other day - 35+ weddings, each beautiful and fun and unique. I'm a little overwhelmed thinking about the wonderful people that I get to work with: I was just telling a flower mentor of mine how I seem to have the kindest, most excited brides. And that, dear friends, gets me very excited.

This spring, I'll be heading to Texas to learn from some of my favourite flower idols, and over the winter I'll be taking a course on designing unique and detailed ceremony spaces. I'm looking forward to bringing those experiences into my designs next year. I'm designing for a handful of weddings at the Lake of the Woods, a wedding in a historic mansion in Winnipeg, creating unique hanging pieces for both ceremonies and receptions, and am also really excited about two brides who I'm working on their florals as well as their complete event design. It's going to be a great year!

Host Winnipeg Launch - Brand New Winnipeg Wedding Blog!

I'm so excited because this week is the launch of Host Winnipeg! Host is a brand new, local wedding and lifestyle website, created by a former wedding planner! Winnipeg has absolutely been in need of something like this - a platform for brides and wedding vendors to interact in a stylish, well-designed way. I'm so excited to see how the full launch of Host impacts the local wedding industry and how brides plan.

I was so thrilled to be asked to take part in the branding shoot, and my small part was to provide florals. I had a lot of fun with this palette and these pretty blooms. Photos by the lovely Brittany Mahood Photography.

Pop-Up Shop at Pineridge Hollow

I'm popping up at Pineridge Hollow! Their annual holiday Open House is coming up on November 28 and I'll be there, selling cut bouquets and a few wreaths. Hope to see you there!