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02/11/2024

Breaking up our new studio content to wish everyone a happy ❤️💛 it's going to be an intense football 🏈 showdown today and we hope everyone has a safe and fun celebration ✨

Homecoming inspired photos by
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Vintage clothing and bronco

01/11/2024

"No way can she find local flowers in November"

WATCH US 💜⚔️🌸

Tonight's Bloom Bar is bringing local kale flowerettes from and some cleansing sage from my own garden, cut just before last night's hard freeze for your pleasure!

While we're at the point in local flower season where things are really sparse, we'll always highlight and design with flowers grown as close to home as possible 🤝

Join us for Bloom Bar in studio 104 inside of during the first Friday of the month (today!) and build a bouquet your ancestors would be proud of ✨💫

28/10/2024

It's giving late fall energy 🤎 🍂🕯️🌾🍎 🦉☕⚰️🍁

Cozy season is upon us, so we've been warming the hearth in our new studio 104 inside to welcome you all in for some festive flower goodness!

Studio 104 is getting closer and closer to being the creative space that will become the DSM hub for all things sustainable flowers 💁‍♀️✨💐

November 1st and December 6th join us from 5-8pm along with 200+ other artists for First Friday! Artists go all out for these open studio times so while you might come for Bloom Bar, make sure you stay to check out all 4 floors of artist studios!

November 30 we'll be open all day along with the whole building for small biz sat - we'll have fresh evergreen wreaths as well as other modern and unique varieties and colors you won't find anywhere else! 🌲💥

We know that the holidays are quickly overbooked and it's easy to order all your gifts directly to your door, but every time you choose to support a local business the majority of that spend goes directly back into your community, creating sustainable local economies where we all take care of each other ♾️ this is what it means to us to live out our ethics and if you agree, we hope you'll come say hi at one of our open studio dates this fall. 🍁

16/10/2024

HECATE | Goddess series II 🪦

Hecate, the goddess of the crossroads and witchcraft sits with her feet always in the darkness.
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She acts as a guide with her hounds at her side to anyone who finds themselves in the liminal spaces, needing to find their way through the darkness - like our beloved Persephone each season as she makes her way to usher in spring.
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She also connects us with the dead, with the power to commune with and call upon those that came before us. Hecate connects us with a time before modernity - to the old ways we're desperately yearning for in these times.

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When you start to learn about Hecate, it's easy to see why she is one of the most prominently worshipped of the ancient goddesses - spooky season is a great time to invoke Hecate's wisdom or protection into your life and ask what you may learn from the darkness 🖤

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08/10/2024

🚧⚠️ we've been soaking up all your kind words and excitement for the Violet Lane studio and while we're excited to welcome everyone in for a visit, there are many unknowns to navigate at this time.

To make things easier, here's what we know for now:

💜 Studio 104 will be a place for us to get work done! We have big goals to make 2025 an incredible flower filled year, and to reach the goals we've set, a home base is essential. We're dreaming up floor plans and researching storage systems, all of which will take some time to get fully set in place. Building a studio is a lot like building a bouquet, and right now we're in the phase of gathering all the amazing resources we need to create a one of a kind floral experience for you.

💜 During times of transition, it's important to make sure we're not pouring from an empty cup, so in an effort not to lose our sanity, we're suspending single orders on our website for now. We can't wait to share the offerings we're dreaming up for delivery (and pickup!) for you all!

💜 We will continue to take orders for your holiday parties! ☃️🎄 Wow your employees with the gift of year round flowers instead of a gas card or other impersonal (yet probably appreciated) item. If it is an afterthought, your employees can tell!

💜 Finally, the first thing that goes when we get busy is our excellent communication - in today's world, we're so used to constant access to people; you can always let us know if something is of an urgent priority, but this is a gentle reminder that it is rarely as urgent as we believe ✨

Although we may be a bit more incognito than usual, we plan to remind you here on socials exactly who we are, what we're about, and the wildly curious community we're building 🌸 stay tuned, friends, it's going to be a wild ride 🎢📈

01/10/2024

This post is for me ✨

× not for the algo 👾
× not for the sales 🤑
× not for the haters 🫰

This is a post for me to remember this moment, this day, this feeling ✨🌸

I wish I could bottle it for you and share, but it's the stuff that real life is made of 😊🌌

Today I mentioned to a friend that though life has never felt more precarious and risky, it also feels like everything is falling into place. If you're not risking something, then you're not making gains either ♾️

I took a risk a few weeks ago stepping into the role of photographer for a styled shoot to highlight Fall Collection of vintage tailgate and collegiate inspired fashion, modeled by

We set out to create throwback era photos set against the backdrop of Kaylee's red and white bronco. As you can see I enjoy playing with light and texture in my photography just like my floral designs 🌸

HOCO inspired bouquet sourced from bc we'll never stop talking about the benefits of local flowers 😍

I'm sitting on an absolute gold mine of beautiful content that I can't wait to share with y'all. The coming weeks are going to be insane for Violet Lane so I do ask for your grace as I am just 1 person wearing every hat, but I wouldn't want it any other way 😍🫶

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29/09/2024

It's my birthday today, so here's a couple cute birthday facts about me (Megan Lane):

Growing up there were so many Sept birthdays we'd fight over who could have their party on Friday night which consisted of: "getting ready", hometown football game (double bonus pts if Homecoming), and pizza and cake that kept us giggling through the night 🥳🥳

When I turned 12 my gma let me decorate my cake with whatever I wanted so I chose yellow frosting and m&ms and skittles and it was actually terrible 💛😅

Some of my favorite cakes through the years:
- german chocolate
- yellow with chocolate frosting
- coconut cream pie (it counts)
- butter pecan
- kentucky butter cake
- texas sheet cake

This year we took the afternoon and went to see the bison at the Neal Smith, picked up a DQ ice cream cake and are going home to watch Shrek bc I found out this year my husband has never seen it 💚✨

A few years ago I decided to quit my corporate job and start a flower company and it was one of the best choices I ever made. I make artful botanical florals under the brand Violet Lane and I'm so happy you're here ✌️♾️🌸

24/09/2024

In the wheel of the year, Fall offers us a pivot point - in the sky, the sun drops below the horizon earlier each day, and we must scrounge around in the backs of our cabinets and drawers for the candles, flashlights, and headlamps we've stowed away.
Many of our tasks are performed by lamplight (or the glow of a screen), but not so long ago, our ancestors struggled to keep the lights on during the dark parts of the year.
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Our biggest invitation this Fall is this: in your quest for balance, remember, perfect equilibrium is rarely attained in practice. It may occur as often as the equinox, the perfect balance of light and dark and the rest of the days it'll be somewhere in between.
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We've shared our bloom bar schedule for the coming season as well - we hope your Fall smells like fresh flowers!
Finally, in our effort to bow to the seasons, we've included some seasonal flower updates to keep you in the know about what you're likely to see from our designs 🫶

26/08/2024

2️⃣ years snuck up on me so quickly ✨🥂 A couple weeks ago I was struck by the marked change that's taken place in the last 2 years.

If year one was categorized as the "CHAOS of CREATION" then year two will be known as the year of calm - something so much closer to what sustainable reality can look like for me and for Violet Lane.

In year one I hustled - as one must when you're building something new. This year I moved in silence like lasagna (iykyk) - I took incredible care of myself and spent more time than I would have liked to tending my bodily needs and demands and getting really clear on how much I can do sustainably. Sustainable growth is what I hope to be the mantra of year 3. I'm ready to put my head down and create some amazing things.

The behind the scenes work I've been putting in to plan the next 3-5 years of Violet Lane has been incredibly difficult not to share - anyone who knows me knows I'm a yapper 🤓🥰

Good things are coming and to celebrate the hard work I've put in I'm taking a big break. I'm traveling, visiting with friends and family, and taking in so much inspiration to bring back home to create artful botanical florals for anyone who's Wildly Curious like me ⚔️😘🌷

See you in September, friends 💜

21/08/2024

Whether you're getting married in a lux spot downtown Des Moines or a back road far away from the city lights, your bouquet will be your favorite accessory ✨💍

We were 🥹🥹 when we saw H & A snuck away for a private sunset dance -- and only their bouquet from Violet Lane (and the stellar team ) was there to witness 🫠

We're drawing up designs with couples planning weddings of all sizes and aesthetics but H's garden party bouquet will always live rent free as one of our favorites ⚔️

If you're getting married in Ames, Des Moines, or at any countryside venue in Iowa, we want to build a floral plan that brings your vision to life ♾️

We're currently matching with couples getting married in:

Winter 2024/2025 🌹
Spring 2025 🌷
Summer 2025 🌻

and rumor is we're offering a hefty thank you (in the form of a credit) for any couple booking before November 1st 🤫🤑

01/08/2024

🚨🌸🚧💐 BLOOM BAR ALERT ⤵️

Local Iowa flowers
in sunset colors 🍒🍊🍋🫐🍇
sold by the stem 🌻
make a bouquet or we can build one for you 🤠
wrapped up for you to take home or gift 🫶

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🆙 to the 2nd floor studio 200 .quinn.art
August 2nd AKA First Friday
5-8 p

Food, drinks, photography exhibition, music, art installation dedication by

& good vibes throughout the building
Perfect for lovers and frands 💃

24/07/2024

Confession time: 🫣😱 I haven't done that many weddings.

Let me tell you what I have done:

x I stood on the side of the interstate with a college student after their first car accident

x I have helped parents bury their children after tragic accidents

x I have gone to a home crushed beneath a tree to assist the family in packing what is essential

x I have been able to share with a grieving wife that her husband had paid for life insurance and she wouldn't have to worry about her and their children's future

x I've spent countless hours wading through flooded basements

The uniting thread throughout my career is my dedication to serving others and helping them transition through big life moments.

So yeah, I haven't done that many weddings, but to me that's my superpower 🚀👩‍🎤🤘

My portfolio may be limited, but I'm about impact - if you agree, I'd love to discuss your wedding dreams and create something beautiful together💍💐

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19/07/2024

Bloom Bar is back and heading to Highland Park this Sunday to for a high-key good time! 🌸

will be there with refreshments 🫖 and in honor of the absolute genius of Brat album 💚 - we seriously can't stop listening - we've scoured the countryside for all the green, white, and "black" local blooms we can find!

We'll share all the inspo for the theme and sneaks of the gorgeous flowers themselves throughout the weekend in stories 👀, but plan to stop in and build yourself a bouquet on Sunday as part of the incredible 💐

17/07/2024

True love doesn't always mean you want to drop $50k on a party or have an 18-month lead time to plan and frankly most of us break out in hives thinking about planning a Pinterest level luxury wedding 😅🥵😶‍🌫️

We're big fans of small, intimate affairs - weddings with just you and your crew are our specialty 🫶🥂💍

If you are keeping your wedding circle small, you still deserve the florals of your dreams - we offer a la carte options for you!

Whether you're looking for just a bouquet or a few extra floral moments to make your day full of flower goodness, all we ask is for 2 weeks notice 💌💚

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04/07/2024

7.4.15 ✨🎆🖤🤍⚜️

We threw a Great Gatsby themed wedding on a DIY budget. The irony hits harder every year 🤓

Our moms, aunts, and grans did most of the decor. I still use the votives we all painted together during my bridal shower 🕯️⚜️

Half our wedding party + our officiant, worked at the where we met - which contributed heavily in the decision to get married on a holiday ♥️🤍💙

My wedding dress was purchased online from a non-wedding retailer.

I didn't know anything about flowers at that time, but the masters took my one note of "I like peonies" and set me up with a chic bouquet filled with David Austin Roses ✨

We smoked stogies and watched the fireworks over the Cedar River from the rooftop 🎆

Zach let me choose our first dance song so I chose the first song I ever heard about love, still popular after all these years 🎶

As time goes by it's such a delight to go through these photos again and again - you cry for the smiles you miss seeing everyday; you laugh at how much the little ones have grown; you cry and laugh at every one of your friends drawing 🍆 in the sparkler photos;

It reminds you how special love is: something definitely worth celebrating 💍✨

02/07/2024

July is always a special month for us because my husband and I celebrate our anniversary on the 4th 💍🎆

This year marks 9 years married and we're def going to share throwbacks in celebration of a holiday announcement for our couples! If you're getting married in 2025, you'll want to 👀 check in here while you're out making mems 🧨🏊‍♀️🏖️🎆

In addition to our anniversary we're celebrating the 80th birthday of my grandmother next week, so I've made the decision to suspend single orders for the first half of July. Designing for y'all is so special to me, but it's important to model sustainable rest practices which are part of my ethics. I hope your schedule allows for some rest time, too. 🌸

We'll be back in the 2nd half of the month with a Bloom Bar
hosted by to celebrate the with the - it's going to be such a fun party! 💐🫖

And finally, we'll start August with a Bloom Bar at at my flower friend .quinn.art studio for First Friday! This is one of our favorite DSM events so we're extra stoked! 🌸

The times are wild y'all so kiss the ones you love, kick off on an old back road, and get lost on the wild side this holiday weekend. 💚💜

23/06/2024

This song has been so healing 🍓🌸☀️
We hope these designs are healing, too 🙏🫶🌸

We say our designs are "artful botanicals" because we use nature as our muse and aren't afraid to think outside the flower. Each design takes nature on a fine art adventure, and our inspiration expands far and wide. For example...

Slide 1 reminds us of those potluck salads that have jello powder and marshmallows in it 🍨

Slide 2 is the song Country Roads by John Denver

Slide 3 is Bridgerton season 3

Slide 4 is a purple cottage garden

Slide 5 is a bowl of starburst candy 🍬

Slide 6 is one of those frothy Starbucks pink drinks 🍓

Slide 7 was to commemorate the spring solar/lunar eclipses 🌠

What do you think? Which arrangement are you putting on your dining table this summer? 💜🌸🫶

10/06/2024

💐🚨 G I V E A W A Y 🚨💐

We had to cancel an event this week due to that darn Midwestern wind 💨 so we're sitting pretty on the most stunning local flowers from SO we're spreading the love and giving away one Wildly Curious bouquet to a lucky winner!

We're also using this opp to celebrate 1200 of y'all in the wildly curious gang! This is one of the first milestones we set when starting out and we are so touched anytime we talk to someone who has been impacted by our flowers 💐✨

H O W T O W I N 🌈🫰🤠

Today and tomorrow (Mon and Tues) answer ANY of the polls in our stories ⏫ and that's one entry! Enter as many times as you like! We'll post the winner Wednesday morning 🫶✨ Central IA fam only 💐✨

We want to build a community that reflects our values and give you the insider info you want the most. We're really curious 😉 to hear your thoughts!

Tag a friend that needs a bouquet in their lives! 🫶

05/06/2024

Bouquets lately 🍇🧈🕊️🫐 🥭

Ever wanted to make a bouquet yourself?

Bloom Bar by Violet Lane Florals is the best place to start! We're bringing our Bloom Bar to downtown Ames tomorrow (Thurs 6/6) during Art Walk!

Stop by .distilled to build your own flower bouquet from 5-8 - we'll be right out front! 💐

If you've never been to Art Walk before, it's one of our favorite Ames events: over 45 local artists will be present in participating downtown shops 🤯 You can chat with the artist, buy their art to display in your home or office, and get a chance to see what the downtown businesses have to offer in the summer!

We'll have local blooms from farms across Central IA ready for you to build your own artful botanical bouquet to take home! 🌸

03/06/2024

Pride month is here and flowers are the q***rest profession in our opinions 😹 hear us out ---

Flowers are the reproductive organs of plants and my literal job is to pick the prettiest ones and arrange them for you to put on your table and stick your face in them ☠️😹🌸🫶

See? Super q***r 🌈

As for us, we're here for the g**s, the theys, and all those who feel most at home with the q***r community.

Dean Pelton from the show "Community" is one of our favorite q***r representations in media and a bit like us he refused to be placed in any one box of definition. Like him we're about 2/7s of the way out of the closet, but our defining philosophy is we are here to be love, create love, and celebrate true love in any form it shows up in this lifetime 🌸🫶

Scroll through our rainbow slide deck of flowers and let us know your favorite flowers to stick your face in 😉

31/05/2024

× I never thought I'd own my own business.
× I never considered myself an artist.
× I never considered my point of view worthy of sharing.

I was just a small town girl with a soft heart, why would my perspective matter?

⚖️ The truth is I've been training to run my own business my whole career, and I just didn't realize it.

🖼️ The truth is, I've been creating art constantly, not recognizing its potential impact.

🌸 The truth is, flowers were the first artistic medium I've felt safe creating in and it shows in my work.

🗺️ The truth is, when I share my story and my perspective new friends come from seemingly nowhere to meet me along the way.

It took me removing the elaborate mask I had created for myself in order to function in this society to realize that I'm the artist I've been looking for all along.

Even though I never saw this future for myself when I started my career, it finally feels like I'm exactly where I need to be: creating inspiring floral works to help you reimagine your relationship with nature 🌱

This spring my friend and colleague
joined me in my home and captured me and my collections with the most beautiful accuracy I've ever known.

I collect old things and new things and nature gifts me with little blessings every time I'm outside, and to share that with y'all feels intimate and appropriate. I don't have a fancy studio (yet) and every one of our designs is made in my home, surrounded by all the wonderful things that inspire me to be the best artist I can be 🫶✨

15/05/2024

🌸 P E T A L S L A Y ⚔️

What is petal slay?

When working with flowers that are completely stunning as individuals, instead of showing the whole bouquet or arrangement it's better to zoom in. Way in.

📸 Detail shots can

- show the nuances of a color palette 💛

- highlight the most precious details that would otherwise go unnoticed 💜

- exude the true personality and feeling of the moment 💚

Every Saturday in stories we share the week's best petal slays and put the stunners in our highlights ⤴️

Mother's Day had so many we thought we'd bring them to the grid this time ✨

Enjoy and let us know in comments which flower left no crumbs 🌸⚔️

12/05/2024

Mother's Day has always been an awkward holiday for me personally. Like many of us, I grew up in a non-traditional family structure and my mothering came from so many people, none of whom I ever called "mom". My own mother was a victim of cancer and lost her life in her 20s, when the American dream said her life should just be starting.

Since she left this world before I can remember, grief isn't crushing this time of year as you might imagine; rather, I choose to honor the people who don't have the title but show up anyway for kids who need it.

My mothers were my grandmothers; my friends' moms who opened their houses and hearts to this little girl who needed it.

My mothers were my teachers who I respected and admired.

My mothers were my best friends who taught me about unconditional love.

My mothers were my music teachers for finding the first thing I'd sit still for.

When I got married, I gained a friend and mother in my MIL.

Our mothers show up in our lives in a myriad of ways, if we just believe enough in magic to recognize them ✨

Now that I'm a grown woman with my own path, I want to be the cool auntie - the one who shows up for all my friend's kiddos. Society puts so much pressure on families to do it alone- we've forgotten it takes a village.

My American dream looks a lot like this: making flowers to celebrate anyone who mothers. I think my mom would be really proud, and I bet yours is too 🫶✨

We're building bouquets today for anyone who needs one - treat your mom or treat yourself to Bloom Bar in Highland Park from 10-4 💐😘

📸 By in

08/05/2024

We're pouring ourselves some espresso ☕ and going head's down to create some beautiful floral stories for your moms this weekend 💛🤍💜

Consider this your final call to order a bouquet for pickup in Ames or surrounding communities!

We're passionate about providing florals to the small communities in which we live. Our small towns are filled with hardworking and talented people, so let us help you celebrate Mom right with a wrapped bouquet from Violet Lane Florals 🫶✨🌸

If you live in Des Moines or don't see this post until after 5:00 pm on Thursday 5/9 - we're bringing one of a kind fresh floral arrangements to starting on Thursday through the weekend!

Better yet? Bring Mom to on Sunday 5.12 to build her own bouquet 💐💐💐

Catch you on the flip side friends! 🤙
- your wildly curious flower lady

06/05/2024

M O T H E R' S D A Y ⚜️🥂🦢🐚🍇👾

We know what moms want 🪩 📣 We know what moms like 🐚
They wanna stay up (till 9:15 pm) 🎆
and party all night (in their pjs not being in charge of anything) 💁‍♀️💁‍♀️

We also have a hunch they'd like flowers! Which is why we'd love to design something special for your mom this holiday. These bouquets would also make for nice grad gifts for the person in your life ✌️🫶💐

We've got an amazing lineup of bouquet pickup spots:

in greater Slater, IA - our hometown spot for coffee
- our fav local hangout in Madrid
- we order lunch to-go at least once a week here, a must try! Polk City
- Somerset Ames, right next to the distilled - our very first pop-up spot in Downtown Ames! Our recs: gua sha or jade roller if you're looking for a gift mom would love 😊
- THE place for plant moms (and dads) in downtown Ames!

We're also offering VIP Delivery options for bouquets and arrangements to get mom's weekend started off right! Snag one of a select number of deliveries we're accepting for Friday 5.10 and Saturday 5.11, we'll update ya'll in comments and stories once they sellout 😎

Lastly, we've manifested a Violet Lane pop-up Mother's Day experience that we'll post all the details for in the next post, so this might be a good time to subscribe for notifications - you're not going to want to miss this!

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Polk City: home of Saylorville Lake, Big Creek State Park, The creamery.polk city, the Neal Smith trail, and countless other places that make this little corner of the Des Moines metro area our favorite of all!🤸‍♀️🏕🚴‍♀️🍦⛵️☀️ In celebration of the Four Seasons Festival, we're spending the whole week in Polk City! We've got a wide array of activities planned - add them to your gcal now! 📅 🧿 Wed 7/12 - 5-8 - we're doing personalized tarot readings (30mins ea) at Nahla Thrift, 201 N 3rd St. DM me to secure your spot ✨ 💐 Thurs 7/13 - 4-7 - Bloom Bar will be open inside of Little Lion Eclectics during the Polk City Farmer's Market. Take home a custom bouquet suited to your taste's and budget. This event happens every week during the Summer and features many amazing local small businesses! 📸🛻🌸🌻 Sat 7/15 - ALL DAY - together with Little Lion Eclectics, we're creating a vintage photo booth of your dreams! Set up in front of Little Lion Eclectics, 103 N 2nd St. get an updated family photo or snag cute pics with your besties. Check out our previous post for more details! 💐Sat 7/15 - 1-4 - Bloom Bar will be back while Little Lion Eclectics is open! Stop in to check out the best in mid-mod home furnishings and build a bouquet to take one (and one to gift a friend). 🌸 📽 taken at local flower farm Wild Bird Farm in Madrid, Iowa 🫶

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