Lovelight Flowers

02/02/2025

24/01/2025

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20/01/2025

Love this!!!

It’s that time of year again! 🗓️
Every January, I take a desk calendar apart and stick the pages to the wall of my office. 

Seeing the entire year laid out in front of me, divided into Quarter 1, Quarter 1, Quarter 3 and Quarter 4 is incredibly inspiring and energizing. 😍🙌

It allows me to see the “Big Picture” and plan my projects accordingly. 

Instead of writing on the calendar, I use color-coded sticky notes. 

I love using the sticky notes because if plans change (and they often do!), all I have to do is move the sticky note.

I use these sticky notes to indicate things like:

-Vacations
-Personal events
-Classes or events on the farm
-Important tax filing dates
-Days for planning, reviewing and reflecting
-Writing and creating schedule
-Shipment arrival dates
-Scheduled farm tasks (like pruning shrubs or turning compost)
-Seed sowing schedule
-Project deadlines

I’m just getting started on this project. 

Once I’m done, the wall will be covered in sticky notes… and then I breathe a HUGE SIGH of relief because I have my entire year mapped out. 🧭

Now all I have to do is FOLLOW THE PLAN.
The main road markers on the map are set in place.

Underneath the calendar, I have 2 sheets of paper to help me stay on track with the monthly, weekly and daily routines. 

One has a list of activities I must do monthly, weekly and daily to keep all the plates spinning 🙃

The other is a sample time-blocked “Ideal Week”, which blocks out time to actually DO the activities.

*I also use an online calendar system for our family, a monthly family calendar on the fridge and a paper planner. So basically, I have multiple systems set in place. It’s a lot… but our life is a lot right now and requires some serious orchestration. 😳

No calendar system is “perfect” for every personality type, but the giant “year-at-a-glance” wall calendar has been a game changer for me!

What system works best for you? 🗓️

19/01/2025

…Starting this year with a grateful heart. I am excited to see what creative endeavors the garden will bring in 2025. While this will be the last year growing at the North Farm, our footprint will forever walk this land… I am grateful for each sunrise and sunset here at the garden. Each seed planted gave me hope and continues to help me grow. These are the lessons I will forever carry with me. ✨💚🌱

21/12/2024

Blessed Solstice, dear friends. ✨✨✨🕯️❄️❄️🎄

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath ..

Margaret Atwood ❄️

Artist Credit : Dana O'Driscoll

15/12/2024

✨🌱 wisdom…

How to get stuff done. I had a guitar teacher who said "No matter how bad it sounds, pick up your guitar every day and play it for at least a little while, and you'll progress." I've faced big tasks before, like hand-weeding an entire field of corn, and what I find is really no different from my guitar teacher's advice--If I do a row or two every day, the work gets done. Later I look at the field as the sun goes down, and the little green leaves wave at me. "Thanks," they say. So there you are in your greenhouse, and that pile of used pots is looking at you again. If you just pick up a couple of pots every day and repurpose them--wash them out, up-pot an aloe or whatever, then random ugliness will soon become beauty. This is my approach to the matter. Yes, all of nature is composed of circles and cycles, but the human can find purchase in the cycle through linear accrual. I had a monumental book project (Growing Plant Medicine Vol 2) to accomplish. It loomed. So I made it more reasonable by just doing a page daily. From the beginning story to the last addendum, all in order. The entire process took 190 days. And here's the crux of it, perhaps. When I was done, I felt more lively than when I started. Like the guitar, the melodies became more melodious with practice. I felt a little better about myself. There were a lot of stupid things I would have done with my time if I hadn't been focusing. Its quite a ride, people. Do a few little, good things every day. Dedicate the merit to all sentient beings. Your little efforts make a big difference in a world fraught with nonsense. Keep going.

13/12/2024

Grateful for every moment that wakes me up on this journey! And thankful for those of you that have supported my artistry and dreams along the way. Here’s to the rest of the 2024. ✨👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Let us remember to love ourselves MORE. Big Love to you and yours this holiday season and always… xoxo

08/12/2024

I love this time of year- mostly for the reconnections I make with my friends and family. Last night, I had a wonderful spontaneous visit with Joe. He is my brother from another mother 😏and one of my best friends since middle school. 🥰Our paths and missions have always aligned. We attended the same schools and both embarked on organic farming journeys 20 years ago. I am so lucky to have a friend like Joe to talk to. I love spending time with you, brother. Our visits always nourish my soul and leave me even more inspired. Thank you!! ✨🥰

26/11/2024

In fall, we tidy up, declutter, donate, rest, restore and get ready to bloom…

24/11/2024

Made these cuties for a client yesterday. I absolutely love the fall colors and accents this time of year. Happy Thanksgiving, Flower friends!
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17/11/2024

Beautiful day today @ Lovelight Flowers 💐 ✨💕🥰 I am so grateful for the mild weather. The flowers are still blooming in the greenhouse. Amazing! 🤩 Have a lovely weekend, flower friends!

14/11/2024

Nothing beats garden roses especially from my own garden… 🤤🤤🤤

13/11/2024

Grand rising, flower friends! 🔥🔥✨💜

01/11/2024

Happy November!! ✨🍂🍁 #111

27/10/2024

My favorite ✨🎃🩷💐🔥💘

23/10/2024

The only constant is change… I am grateful for where we are and hopeful for where we are going… onward and upwards!! ✨💦💦💦