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05/12/2022

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02/18/2022

Client sketches…

11/14/2021

And just like that, the season comes to an end… This morning I got up at 7:00 and went downtown to dismantle this behemoth of a chuppah. Now that it’s safely tucked into a corner of the shop, I can focus on my full time task for the next few weeks: taking care of my adrenal system. Cortisol depletion anyone???
This beauty for Lori & Sean with

10/19/2021

When the end-of-the-wedding-season fatigue is really real, pictures like these are what remind me why we chose (and continue to choose, every day) this crazy industry…
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08/11/2021

Demain matin on quitte Montréal pour quelques jours pour participer au festival Anthologia, qui se déroulera au Jardins de Métis… Ça fait pas mal d’heures de route pour un week-end, mais j’ai trop hâte de partager avec d’autres amoureux de l’art floral pendant quelques jours!
Et merci pour le chouette article 💛

04/17/2021

Wintery vibes for this still-not-quite-spring weekend...
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01/22/2021

Tranquil tones for a tranquil morning. How’s your confinement going? Feels lime forever and it hasn’t even been two weeks... I have a feeling like this coming spring is going to be a rebirth in so many ways. 🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍 📷 📓🖊

01/18/2021

CONCOURS 🎉 CONTEST
Les Quatres Semaines du Confinement 💚
Pour essayer d’égayer un peu ton confinement, je ferai tirer un prix par semaine jusqu’à ce qu’on soit sortis du bois! Seriously, c’est primordial qu’on fasse tous notre part et qu’on prenne ça au sérieux, et peut-être que c’est un tantinet plus facile de rester chez soi si on a un nouveau livre à lire ou de jolies choses à regarder?
Cette semaine, je fais tirer une copie de mon livre L’Atelier des Bouquets, parfaite lecture hivernale pour te préparer à l’arrivée du printemps! (Prévoir un ramassage à Montréal sur le Plateau).
Pour participer:
👉🏼Enregistre + Partage ce post.
👉🏼Tag dans les commentaires la personne dont tu t’ennuies le plus pendant le confinement et dis-lui ce que tu as hâte de faire quand vous aurez le droit de vous voir.
Nombre de participations illimité, chaque commentaire = une chance de gagner!
Tirage dimanche le 16 Janvier.
Bonne chance!!!

The Four Weeks of Confinement Contest 🎉
To make your time at home a teeny bit easier, I’ll be giving away a fun prize each week until restrictions are over! This week I’m giving away a copy of my book L’Atelier des Bouquets, perfect winter reading to get all hyped about spring! (Plan on being able to pick it up in Montréal on the Plateau).
To enter:
👉🏼Save + Share this post
👉🏼Tag in the comments someone you’ll miss during confinement and tell them what you can’t wait to do with them.
No entry limit, each comment = one chance to win.
Draw on Sunday the 16th.
Good luck!!! 📷

01/11/2021

CONCOURS 🎉 CONTEST
Les Quatres Semaines du Confinement 💚
Pour essayer d’égayer un peu ton confinement, je ferai tirer un prix par semaine jusqu’à ce qu’on soit sortis du bois! Seriously, c’est primordial qu’on fasse tous notre part et qu’on prenne ça au sérieux, et peut-être que c’est un tantinet plus facile de rester chez soi si on a un nouveau livre à lire ou de jolies choses à regarder?
Cette semaine, je fais tirer cette cute couronne de fleurs préservées (malheureusement je ne peux pas poster cet item, donc prévoir un ramassage à Montréal sur le Plateau).
Pour participer:
👉🏼Enregistre + Partage ce post.
👉🏼Tag dans les commentaires la personne dont tu t’ennuies le plus pendant le confinement et dis-lui ce que tu as hâte de faire quand vous aurez le droit de vous voir.
Nombre de participations illimité, chaque commentaire = une chance de gagner!
Tirage dimanche le 16 Janvier.
Bonne chance!!!

The Four Weeks of Confinement Contest 💚
To make your time at home a teeny bit easier, I’ll be giving away a fun prize each week until restrictions are over! This week, this cute preserved flower wreath (unfortunately I can’t ship this item so plan on being able to pick it up in Montréal on the Plateau).
To enter:
👉🏼Save + Share this post
👉🏼Tag in the comments someone you’ll miss during confinement and tell them what you can’t wait to do with them.
No entry limit, each comment = one chance to win.
Draw on Sunday the 16th.
Good luck!!!

12/31/2020

Well, what a year... Many, many times since last spring I’ve felt incredibly lucky for my natural tendency to see the silver lining in everything. I’m just wired that way, I’ve always been... And never has it been such a big part of keeping going. It’s always nice to see the world that way, but this year it became essential to my sanity. Is it always realistic? Probably not? Was I able to see the glass half full when it was in actuality pretty much empty? Probably. But I don’t care. We made it through 💚 So to finish this awfully difficult year on a high note, lets all find our own silver linings and dwell on them a little bit. I was able to spend some time off in the summer with Finnegan for the first time, and boy did we take advantage of that. We caught frogs, climbed trees, slept in the car, saw lots of lichen, ate at a lot of roadside cantines. The first confinement emptied the streets so much that I was able to practice driving on the highway, something I never, ever thought would be possible for me. Now when I can’t sleep instead of fake shopping for plane tickets I fake directions on Google maps and imagine all the road trips I can take once all this s**t is over. The complete lack of work gave me time to reconnect with my creative side and I did more photo shoots in one summer than in the past 5 years. It was nice to create for myself and to reconsider what this business is trying to put out into the world... So tell me, what about you? What was your silver lining this year??

12/15/2020

I MADE WREATHS. For your last minute Holiday needs or for a super sweet present that will last forever, check out my stories for more info and designs. Each one is different and I suspect they’ll be gone soon :)

11/30/2020

Fall and spring colliding... I can’t help seeing the positive side of things, my brain is wired that way and I just can’t view things differently. It’s an especially useful skill this year when at times (like those weeks when 20 clients call to cancel their weddings at once) everything seemed pretty bleak... So, one of the things I’m most grateful for is having the time to explore and create florals just for myself, and the immense luck to have talented photographer friends like who are always (almost) game to join in the fun. I hadn’t had the chance to indulge in this since we shot the book a few years ago...

10/30/2020

November doesn’t have to be all gloom and doom... Here’s fall done in a luminous, ethereal way ✨💛✨

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Floral design:
Creative direction: +
Rentals:

10/12/2020

Mood.

10/06/2020

Sneak peek at a special project from last week... The autumn anemones with the yellowed sorbaria foliage was 🤯🤯🤯 I can’t wait to see those rolls!!!

10/04/2020

Modern day alchemy... Parking lot “weeds” transmutated into a luxurious wedding ceremony backdrop. Ok, there’s also a few “proper flowers” in the mix, some from our friends and some leftover from last week’s wedding. I can’t wait to see the pictures took of this... If you’re curious about my thoughts on this installation, check out my stories...

09/25/2020

Details...
Boutonnières are one of my favourite things to make, you?
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09/21/2020

Wild asters.
This morning the news came that our last wedding of the season (in four days) would be scaled down from a small family affair to a simple ceremony in the parc. I felt for this bride who had to change and re-organize about half a dozen times since the spring... I remind myself about that when I find myself feeling sad that I won’t be able to use any wild asters this season. What a strange and stressful year it’s been. I’m counting on catching up next summer and using truckloads of these babies!

09/14/2020

Sometimes we class it up a bit... With and

08/07/2020

Such a classic this one... 📷 🖋📓

06/04/2020

Just a bit of beauty this morning...
📷 .weddings

06/02/2020

This is my child.
My beautiful, innocent, privileged white child. He’s nine years old. For the past few days (since he was born really, but sometimes the intensity swells) I’ve been wondering what I can do to make sure he’s part of the solution, not the problem.
As someone who grew up in one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in Canada, who grew up taking for granted that humans come in many shapes, colors, sizes, whatever...
I always thought that passing those values down to my child was my way of making sure things would get better in the long run. Now I’m realizing maybe that’s not enough. Maybe, hopefully, there’s more we can do. There has to be. It can’t take another few generations before s**t changes. Maybe it’s too easy to say that they’re the future; we have to be the future. NOW.

06/01/2020

It’s hard to find the right words in times like this. Saying nothing feels wrong, and yet, saying the right thing seems impossible...

05/29/2020

SIMPLICITY. This is where I’m at guys. Making arrangements from rehydrated seaweed salad. Not like “Oh this would be a fun thing to try!”... No I made it to EAT it and then then found myself unable to consume the prettiest pieces.
This month has been swell . Can you keep doing it? Please?

05/25/2020

This time last year when the spirea was in full force. Missing work right now, especially when I see all the flowering trees and I don’t have a reason to pluck from them 😭 📷 📓🖊

05/22/2020

This week!!! For the challenge... Theme was BALANCE so I played a bit of flower jenga. Friends, letting go of the expectations and not focusing on the final result is incredibly freeing. You should try.

05/17/2020

Missing May weddings and flowering branches so hard right now. 📷

05/15/2020

MOVEMENT. Prompt this week from . I can’t tell you guys enough how much I appreciate this weekly exercise in . Once again, I started with something massive and dramatic and ended up with something tiny... I posted the progression in my stories! @ Atelier Carmel

05/08/2020

Trout. Lilies. Some of the very first flowers to bloom here in Quebec after 5 to 6 months of snow... I have the fondest memories of these as a kid, walking through the woods and spotting their polka-dot leaves.

05/07/2020

Simple. Super simple. Find myself going back to basics, editing, trimming the fat... This guy I made for the weekly challenge inspired by their upcoming book with . The theme this week was “naturalness” and anyone who’s worked with me knows that that concept is very close to my heart and informs all of my design endeavours. I wanted this arrangement to look like I just scooped up a piece of forest floor, the trout lilies poking through last season’s dried leaves.

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