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I sell home grown (in Crown Point, Indiana) flowers. Local, grown without pesticides and all that st Flower Farmer. That's YOU.

A simple plan of planting beautiful flowers and sharing them with each other. The dreamers, the realists, the designers, the florists, brides and grooms, moms and dads. Flowers bring beauty everywhere we go, and I'd love to be a part of bringing something beautiful to the memories you are making.

09/25/2024

For the first 30+ years of my life I was known for my lack of follow through. As a child, I had packed my closet and underneath my bed full of started art projects, unfinished friendship bracelets, and 1 million crafts for projects that I never completed. Yarn for afghans I was going to crochet, stickers for scrapbooking, dozens of “how-to” and “self-help” books. None of my jobs were ever quite right. I worked at a gym, had a newspaper route, bartended, waitressed, was a sales rep for pet companies, a project manager at a factory, and even an administrative assistant at a church. I didn’t keep friends well, I would worry and overthink, I’d let text messages get away from me, I’d become bogged down in my own life and forget, and then experience debilitating guilt and shame.

There’s a lot that goes into the making of those above statements things like having a neurodivergent brain and being bullied as a child. Letting fear and loneliness control me. I have lacked consistency my entire life.

In 2014 my sister and I started Sunnyside Drive Flowers. A couple of years later and it was just me doing Sunnyside.

2024 marks 10 years. 10 years of spring subscriptions, 10 years of fall planting, 10 years of filing taxes, 10 years of social media posts, 10 years of weeding and planting, 10 years of sharing the same thing over and over with you all.

You are the one thing I have been able to be consistent in.

To all of my customers: I love you dearly.

This Friday at my place we are celebrating. My sister is back again this year. The kids have made some pretty amazing crafts. I’ll have flower pumpkins and flower bouquets and dried flowers and cookies and cider AND free gifts. I have free eucalyptus bouquets, and free coffee mugs. No strings attached- just swing by to say hello, tell me congratulations and grab some free stuff while supplies last (in the spirit of honesty of course I’d love you to purchase some flowers and some of the crafts the kids have made but you are not obligated!)

I’m hoping to see so many of your familiar faces this Friday!

Friday September 27th 8am-7pm.
12567 Gibson Street, Crown Point

09/18/2024

I snuck away to Florida with the family but we are prepping for ALL the things next week. Friday September 27th at my place:
🎃pre-order the amazing flower pumpkins now for pick up at my place NEXT friday
🎃Fall Kids Market Friday the 27th- stay tuned for more pictures and more details
🎃10 Year Anniversary Celebration ~ come get some fun swag, free eucalyptus bouquet, and more free stuff so again stay tuned keep your eyes out for more posts and more details

09/12/2024

Last chance to pre-order flowers for Friday pick up at my place or

Its gonna be a beautiful weekend! Enjoy the very last few weeks of flowers for the year.

Link in bio or below.

08/28/2024

The end of August and I find myself suffocating. Flowers are barely hanging on- edges of leaves crisp and brown, grasses and weeds overgrown, flowers buried beneath. The time is up-all the hope and promise that spring brought has turned into me realizing all the work that will not get done this season. I feel discouraged. I see goals I did not accomplish yet again. My mind wants to desperately label myself as a failure. I have been holding her (my mind) back- keeping her thoughts that I know are not true- at bay. Then it happens, all those little things add up, and all the good advice and good nutrition and good exercise - life brings challenges sometimes that push just a little too hard. I find myself in a crappy week with a crappy mood.

My sister and I talk about pause moments- constantly teaching ourselves and our kids to pause to stop to reflect on the moment before yelling, getting angry and reacting. But pause moments are for the good times too.

I barely got tonight’s flower picture in before the sunset. I updated the online shop and uploaded pictures and started typing to post about flower availability. And it just happened. I looked at the picture and marveled. I couldn’t believe the picture looked so pretty. If you could’ve walked with me tonight as I scrambled to cut the flowers. Weeds taller than my head scratching and itching me. Hundreds of flowers with wilted petals because I didn’t water and it’s been too hot. Flowers that never really made it because they weren’t fertilized or weren’t staked and they’ve toppled to the ground. You would’ve seen the mess and the disaster and the failure.

I had a good pause moment when I looked at that picture. Mess and disaster and weeds and even things dying do not equal failure. Hard times don’t mean I made a mistake. Life is hard. Growing is hard- growing plants, growing children, growing yourself all especially hard. Nothing about hard equals failure- on the contrary, it seems the good things come from the hard things.

Just maybe August isn’t so bad after all.

PS - the online shop is open for pre-order and pick up on Friday at my place or

08/21/2024

I love the way the eucalyptus drips from the bouquets. It was dark today at 8pm. The countdown to the end of summer has begun. Pre-order for Friday pick up at my place or . Link in bio.

08/17/2024

Sometimes simple is perfection. These bouquets still feel like summer, but definitely are transitioning to fall. Perfect weekend to treat yourself. 8am

Plus has amazing summer produce. In December you’ll be missing flowers and homegrown tomatoes so enjoy it while you can!

Sunday 8am
Smalltown Coffee
306 E. Goldsborough
Crown Point

08/08/2024

Some of the prettiest flowers for one of the most beautiful summer weeks. Pre order and pick up on Friday at my place or

It’s a glorious week for sure!

Link in bio or below.

www.sunnysidedriveflowers.com

07/31/2024

We made it till almost August with no mosquitoes, and now they are out with a vengeance. Definitely doesn’t stop all my favorite flowers from blooming. A rainbow of lisianthus, double rose lilies, and so much more. Its truly summer and the flowers know it! Even the pint size arrangements are in pink flamingo shaped jars! Pre-order and pick up at my place or at Steamwhistle Coffee on Friday.

PLUS its a Smalltown Market Sunday. Lots of options and lots of beautiful flowers.

link in bio or below

www.sunnysidedriveflowers.com

07/26/2024

When I look at this picture of zinnias, it’s really easy for me to feel all kinds of good things. I feel success. It feels like everything is going well. It feels like flowers are beautiful and easy and I’ve got everything under control. I feel hope.

I’m standing outside right now however, the weeds are everywhere and there are flowers that are dying because I don’t have irrigation set up. The dogs have destroyed their fenced area and have dug holes and created runs full of mud. The chicken coop needs painting. The pond doesn’t have enough aeration and algae is creeping in. Weeds are everywhere. They are just everywhere -in the flowers in the landscape in the yard around the mailbox everywhere I look I see weeds.
I feel hopeless.

The thing is, neither statements have anything to do with hope because hope is a choice. Whether I look at the happy pictures or the sad pictures, I can have hope because hope is a choice.

I regularly and consistently choose hope, irrelevant of my feelings.

I’ll be honest sometimes that choice is a heck of a lot easier -like on a cool summer night with a picture perfect sunset.

No matter what though, I hope you choose hope.

07/19/2024

When the Lisianthus begin blooming, it feels like all is right with the world. In typical fashion it’s been one week for the record books. But it’s Friday, and the weather is absolutely glorious. I am celebrating Christmas in July this Sunday with amazing bouquets and of course pint size arrangements. Come visit me and this Sunday. 8am.

🌸Get flowers.
🌸Get produce.
🌸Get coffee.

Can’t wait to see you!

06/26/2024

Oops! This week totally got away from me! A limited amount of flowers are posted online for pre-order and pick up on Friday at my place or

Enjoy! Link in bio, or below…PS you can always just go directly to the website and click on the online shop too!

www.sunnysidedriveflowers.com

06/21/2024

Whatcha doing on Sunday? Kicking off this summer with these hot bouquets, and so many more at

Come try some thing fun off of their summer menu like a Berry Bliss latte or Peaches n’ Cream latte.

PLUS will be there, and rumor has it he’s bringing snap peas and strawberries and cherry tomatoes!

Mark your calendar and stop by it’s like a mini farmers market but better- pop in, get food, get coffee, and flowers. Sounds like a perfect Sunday to me.

Smalltown Coffee
Sunday, June 23rd 8am-noon
306 E. Goldsborough Street, Crown Point

06/14/2024

Before I turned 18, I moved out of my parents home. Obviously when you move out at 17 it’s not on good terms. I wanted it to be -but I was doing things my parents were not okay with, like A LOT of things…. I had a couple of jobs and a car and had moved into an apartment complex with a friend. At some point my car got a flat tire and I didn’t know how to change it. I’m not sure how my dad found out my car had a flat- I’m going to guess one of my brothers or sisters told him but I know it wasn’t me. One morning my friend told me someone was in the parking lot changing the tire on my car- my dad. He didn’t come in to say hi, and I did not go out to talk to him. We weren’t exactly on speaking terms. But there he was changing the tire on my car. Of course there’s a whole ton more details and things to glean from the story but today the point is.

No strings attached generosity.

In celebration of my dad for Father’s Day weekend, and in the spirit of “no strings attached generosity” I have four dozen mini ranunculus bouquets - each tagged with everyone’s favorite word “free.”

It might be a really good day to go grab yourself a coffee and a bouquet of “no strings attached generosity.”

Of course, when they are gone, they’re gone, but the good news is you can always buy yourself a cup of coffee or heck- buy someone else a cup of coffee, and spread the generosity!

Happy Father’s Day Weekend!

06/12/2024

It’s going to be HOT!! Lets blow out some HOT! $20 Bouquets! Big and bold bouquets this week! Featuring dainty daisy like feverfew, sweetly scented snapdragons and sweet William, Bells of Ireland, buplureum and delphinium. Online shop is loaded for pre-order and pick up this Friday at my place or

Link below or in bio!

PS everyone’s favorite Bells of Ireland are featured in Bouquets this week- don’t miss out.

www.sunnysidedriveflowers.com

06/03/2024

The Summer Subscription starts this Friday! Today is the last day to grab a 12 week or 6 week subscription for pick up at my place or - Head to the website for more details! (Link in bio)

www.sunnysidedriveflowers.com

05/29/2024

It’s not the glorious giant arm full of peonies with the golden hour sunshine sparkling on them. I know that those are the photos that get my customers excited. I know that those are the photos that increase my sales. But sometimes ….there are these other moments- these other places that are just as beautiful and just as magical. It’s easy for me to become engrossed and almost obsessed with flowers during the flower season. And while inherently, there is nothing wrong with that I find I soon take a tumble into a downward spiral as all the world around me crumbles (dinner, my children, my husband, my family, my exercise, my health, my pets.)

It is no secret that being a mom and a wife and having a ton of kids and running a business and trying to be a friend and completing projects and hobbies and exercise and dinners and kids and more kids and issues are all challenging and hard and complicated. I know life is hard and complicated but today that’s not my point.

I did something I don’t normally do. I popped a collar on my friend and we walked the pond trail slowly -just him and I.

There is no doubt that the flowers I grow are absolutely breathtaking and stunning and they’ll stop you in your tracks every single day. There is no doubt that regularly taking the time to notice the inherent beauty of each bloom is a soul nourishing experience. But if it stops there- if I’m only able to find beauty in flowers, and haven’t learned to let it transcend into my life and seep from my pores so that walks in the woods and dinner with my family and wiping snotty noses and deep breathing with a daughter and unplanned shopping trips on a holiday are all gloriously beautiful too- if I can’t keep taking the next steps, then I have failed. I’m so thankful you all see the flowers as beautiful and bring them into your home, but even more so I hope seeing beauty gets in your soul and drips from your pores.

This week’s flowers are available online and the summer subscriptions are available online too -but we can talk about that tomorrow. 😉

Until then…

05/21/2024

Did you see the glorious XLG peony bouquets this week? So so so very good. Pre-order now for pick up on Friday at my place or Steamwhistle Coffee. Enjoy!

Link below:

www.sunnysidedriveflowers.com

05/10/2024

Everything is set up and ready to go - If you ordered for pick up they are open 6 AM to 4 PM today. Kenney (hubby) is there with a master list to make finding your order easy- and if you missed out, he does have a couple of extras. Enjoy!

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12567 Gibson Street
Crown Point, IN
46307

Website

http://www.sunnysidedriveflowers.com/

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August holds some particular challenges. Finding time for the intensity of summer flowers, figuring out all of next season’s fall planting and somehow finding a way to get school started with the kids. But here we are a fantastic week for back to school flowers with pick up options @steamwhistlecoffeeroasters or of course my place plus its a Smalltown Sunday Market week. PS everyone’s favorite eucalyptus bundles are available this week too! Head to the website and pre-order for Friday pick up or come visit on Sunday at Smalltown Coffee.

It’s been a busy holiday week! Unwind tomorrow @smalltowncoffeeco grab a coffee and grab yourself some flowers. @fivehandsfarm will be there slinging the best produce this side of the Mississippi too 😉 Smalltown Coffee Sunday July 7 8-12pm (or soldout) 306 E. Goldsborough Street

The online store is loaded with this weeks options. of course there’s an extra large glorious peony bouquet and pint size arrangements, but this is a special you don’t want to miss out on … The Ugly Duckling Bouquets - I am not really in love with the color orange, so I created a bold and bright complementary bouquet featuring all the orange snapdragons and I’m blowing them out at 20 bucks! Pre-order now and pick up at my place or @steamwhistlecoffeeroasters on Friday. Link in bio.

Ordering closes today for pre-order and pick up tomorrow at my place or @steamwhistlecoffeeroasters The peony bouquets are outstanding. The exclusive ranunculus bundles are radiant. The flowers this week are magical. Link in bio or below.

ATTENTION Ranunculus Lovers! I don’t usually do straight bouquets of anything but today I decided I’m going to do 18 stem bunches of ranunculus for pick up tomorrow. Supplies are limited- head to the online shop to order yours now and come visit me or @steamwhistlecoffeeroasters tomorrow 😊 (there are a couple other bouquet options as well)

Spring is here! Week 1 of our subscription starts this Friday. A few extras will be available in the online shop tomorrow at 10 AM. Available for pick up at my place or at Steamwhistle Coffee. Sometimes in the dead of winter, I imagine myself picking these flowers, and when the day actually comes sometimes I can’t even believe it’s real. I really am so happy to be sharing these with you all. All you need is flowers…and love…and coffee…and sunshine…and tequila…😘

SURPRISE!! There’s just so many pretty things blooming- I just HAD to do some Easter flowers! Pick up will be at my place or @steamwhistlecoffeeroasters on Friday. Pre-order yours now before they are gone. Click on the link in bio or below.

Yellow: the color of happiness, the color of the sun, the color of warmth and joy, yummy bananas, and happy Pikachu. Yellow: the first color that comes after the cold. Yellow: bold and unapologetically in your face. The daffodils are blooming. I’m firing up the cooler. I’m getting ready for Easter and the spring subscription. I’m in love with yellow.

Always anticipated! (but I’m always running behind with releasing them.) Spring is coming (I promise.) Make sure you are signed up for our newsletter- don’t worry I rarely send emails so I will not bombard your inbox- head to the website, scroll to the bottom, fill in your email address and click subscribe- because emails are going out really really soon with all the information you want to know. Flowers make me happy! How about you? www.sunnysidedriveflowers.com