KJ Floral Designs

11/13/2024

On the mend, and ready to rock another week BTS in the Sunshine State….with my favorite long distance friends and colleagues 💚

10/26/2024

Oyster Shells and Wedding Bells 🦪 & 🔔

10/14/2024

A head table, graced with a silver lining of white fluffy hydrangea clouds

10/04/2024

5️⃣5️⃣ and thankful for another trip around the sun!

I’m not married, so I look at my Birthday as more of an Anniversary ….years (and years…👵🏼) of never giving up on myself, and decades of continuously working on this relationship I have with me. With my Birthday falling towards the end of the season, I usually assess and reflect. On this one, I realized that I’ve spent so much of my life worried about fitting into a proper societal box, that I lost years of feeling as grateful as I am today. Of course, great personal loss, and growing older, does magnify how fragile we are.

I’m midway through this decade of my life, and have crossed a lot off my bucket list. Understanding that “no one is coming to save me”, I’ve learned to do almost anything solo…and with that comes a fearless liberation and freedom, I can’t even explain to anyone 🩶🩶🩶

So thank you for the Birthday text messages, calls and posts…and for following along on this social media platform of my work/life journey. I’m really happy that you’re here! 😍

10/01/2024

Bring on the pumpkin spice…and everything nice!
October is here 🥰🍁🎃🥮

09/23/2024

09/23/2024

The most exciting part of being a Freelance Designer is stepping out of the usual, traveling, and doing something new. Most of the time, in Palm Beach, Florida, it’s uniquely colorful, bold and tropical: like this waterfall design that we executed here. So fun! 😍

I’ve been a freelancer for this great group of people for almost 2 years now, and this week, we are local! I am packing my tools and joining them for the week in Nantucket….for what I’m sure is another epic event! 🙌🏻

09/09/2024

PSA: A friendly reminder not to forget the es**rt card table, when planning your wedding or rehearsal dinner. This is the space that greets your guests, immediately after celebrating your ceremony: So make it happy…with flowers 😊

08/22/2024

Oh hey! 👋🏻 I know I haven’t posted much this summer. Truth is, I love my job, but after struggling through empty nest syndrome, and losing a dear friend earlier this year; I decided that 2024 was going to be a year of balance. Following decades of throwing myself into my work, and having almost no time to enjoy the summers on the Cape, or anywhere else for that matter: I went in the opposite direction, and traveled WAY too much last year, away from my family, my friends and my home.

So this season really has been the perfect balance of work, self-care, travel and time spent at home❤️Although we’ve had weddings just about every week, I haven’t taken the time to post much about it, and I’ll definitely play catch up during some down time in the off season. I know I’m not alone, when I say that social media anxiety got in the way of me just living my life.

Nevertheless, here I am….strolling into middle age, still climbing ladders, lugging buckets, carrying boxes, loving my career, and enjoying an awesome staff, who have stuck with me throughout the years, in this super-rewarding business.

….and I just wanted to say hello! 😉

08/05/2024

HYDRANGEAS! …and nothing more 💙

This bride chose a design that was a fitting nod to this beloved local flower, on a perfect Cape Cod summer day!

Due to a mild winter, and a lot of Spring rain, our garden hydrangeas are having quite a show this year. Match that to Cape Cod’s temperate climate, sandy/acidic soils, and coastal influences, which creates the ideal environment for these puffy blooms to thrive.

Of course, we didn’t hand pick all of these stems, but oh, what an honor for them to join the rest of the beautiful gardens chock-full of hydrangeas at Chatham Bars Inn

08/02/2024

Wedding time is here! Happy Weekend 😊

07/09/2024

We’re baaaaaack! 👏🏻 As good as it was to disconnect for the week, it’s a return to the studio today, to receive colorful florals and hundreds of gorgeous hydrangeas for our Lower Cape weddings and …It’s gonna be a hot one, so we’ve gotta take extra special care of our flower babies 😊 Pray for us!

07/06/2024

Have a safe, and happy holiday weekend!

07/02/2024

✨Out of Office✨

Connecting with nature, and family, on a northern camping trip this week, so response time may be delayed. Have a safe and happy holiday week!

06/17/2024

The rolling dunes of the Cape 💙

I had the pleasure of spending some off-time here this weekend, and took in every salty minute of it!

After the nightmare of the Covid lockdowns, and what I went through as a small business owner, (there’s a backstory there)…over the past few years, I have made the bittersweet decision to slow down and smell the roses (if you will).
Add that to the passing of my dear friend earlier this year, and my perspective of this tiny life we have, has shifted. It was 20 years ago this month that I purchased my first flower shop, not knowing much about it, but with the help of her, her work ethic, and beautiful soul, we built an amazing business together.

However, owning a business on the Cape comes with a sacrifice. Most of us have to do an entire year’s worth of work within 6 months, and then must budget to survive through the cold winter. Luckily, I’ve recently been escaping the cold, and am still able to flower in the off-season.

I grew up on the Cape. Summered here all my life, and moved here permanently in high school…a looong time ago ….(Go Blue Knights!). My babies were born and raised here, and I’ve had the best career anyone could ask for in this great town. Yet since having this career, I’ve hardly been able to take in all this place has to offer in the summer: but this weekend I did just that!

If we have done your wedding in the past, I actually want to extend a heartfelt THANK YOU for your business. Because of you, I’m grateful I have the choice to spend time with my friends and family, while doing the thing I love the most: creating florals for you! 🌸

06/02/2024

✨Wedding season has begun✨

05/28/2024

One year ago today, I returned home from the bucket list trip I never knew I needed. I was honored to be included on the invite list to design an epic wedding at this breathtaking ranch …. where our design tables overlooked endless mountains and valleys, and a paddock filled with hundreds of majestic horses: who ran up the hill to the barn, every day before sunset.

It was my first time, ever, in the midwest, and where I met new forever flower friends, hiked pretty trails, and took in the incredible untouched landscape of gorgeous Wyoming!

05/21/2024

Welp. THAT was a trip….in every sense of the word. After forging through the grueling drive back from Florida 🥴….I am SO happy to be home 🙏🏻

This winter season brought me to so many places, where I made connections with amazing new flower friends, and kept my hands busy doing the thing I love most.

From Palm Beach, to Tampa, to the Florida panhandle, and a good solid stay on Gasparilla Island. All while allowing me to enjoy my southern home-away-from-home and visit with an incredible network of Floridian friends.

The final round-up of finding myself again, after spending decades being a single mom, has been both challenging and fulfilling at the very same time. Anyone else hear me on that?

Soooooo, that’s enough me time for a while, because we are kicking off our #2024 wedding season this week…and it is time to get to the KJ studio!!! LFG!!