Getting Closer

Earlier this week, I mentioned how much I miss working in the flower shop and yesterday, I found out I could be one step closer to filling that void!  No, I'm not quitting my job.  A few months ago I read this article in our local newspaper and today I finally stopped by the store and got a little more information. 

For those who don't want to read the article, Roots and Bloom is a floral wholesaler who just opened up to the public.  They offer wholesale prices to anyone, not just flower shops and designers, on flowers, supplies, and containers.  They also sell green plants.  They work directly with the growers so they are able to get any flower with at least two weeks notice.  Pretty awesome huh?

It gets better, though.  They have opened up space in their building for freelance designers to come in and work at NO CHARGE!  And, as long as the designer purchases their flowers from Roots and Bloom, they can store their arrangements for free.  The stations include floral knives and shears and then all the designer has to pay for is the supplies that are used and the flowers.  The staff is also willing to help arrange if the designer needs extra hands.  This would have been so nice to have when I did my friend's wedding a few years ago or when I worked on some arrangements for a destination wedding reception last summer.

However, I left my little tour feeling pretty excited about the possibility of getting back into the floral world in some form.  So, I started making a mental list of things I could do "on the side":

• Party/Shower Arrangements - birthday, anniversary, baby, wedding
• Small Weddings
• Church Events
• Holiday/Seasonal Arrangements
• Dinner Party Centerpieces

Of course, I still need to figure out how to spread the word and how to charge for my time, but those are just "minor details"!

Bucket List

Last night we had our weekly small group get together.  We are currently in between studies, so we played a Jenga game that Brandon and I made up a couple of years ago.  Basically, its the usual Jenga game, but we wrote questions on each block, so when each person pulled a block from the tower they had to answer that particular question.  The questions ranged from favorite vacation to most embarassing moment to biggest fear.  One question that I had forgotten about was to list one item on your bucket list.  As we got to talking, we found out that one guy in our group has a goals sheet that he keeps in his wallet.  This goals sheet is quite worn and has several things crossed off and a few left to be crossed off.  I thought it was so sweet that he had even written "Marry Christy", which was obviously crossed off now.  Another friend in our group said she was cleaning out her storage room yesterday and found her bucket list that she had made several years ago and she was able to cross a few things off that she had forgotten about. 

After all of this discussion, I realized that I've never really made a "bucket list". I mean, I have set goals for myself, but never physically written them out and kept track of them.  So, starting today, I'm going to begin writing down items for my bucket list from this point on in my life.  Some may be obvious and some may be lofty, but that is the purpose of the list, right?

So, here it goes:

1. Have a family
2. Move to a bigger house
3. Visit Europe with Brandon
4. Own (or partially own) a flower shop

I'd be intersted to know what other people have on their lists.  I think you can learn a lot about a person by their lists!