Flower Magazine - Artist in Bloom Feature

Late last week I received the winter issue of Flower Magazine. This is a wonderful magazine focused on flowers of course. I was contacted back in late September by one of their editors, who asked if they could interview me for the winter issue. The magazine is published out of Alabama and is distributed in 12 states. They have a special feature article they do in each issue titled, "Artist in Bloom". It focuses on artists who create in various mediums and art forms with the one central theme, flowers.I was so honored that the editors found me and asked to do a feature. With magazine editorial so tight these days, I was so lucky to get 2 pages in their magazine. This particular issue focuses on wedding flowers which is awesome and a perfect issue to be in! I was also very fortunate to use the photos from Stewart Pinsky Photography, Allure West Studios, and Debbie Friedrich Photography. Thank you to them who help bring out the best qualities of my clay floral designs!
If you don't get this publication in your area, you can order it online.

DK Designs Favor Boxes on TheKnot.com Homepage!!!

So this morning I received an email from my good friend, Cheryl Shoemaker of Orchid Isle Weddings & Events. She happened upon theknot.com and found my favor box photo on the home page!!! It's amazing out of the 550 plus photo gallery images they have on the site, they picked the one I did for Mae & Jeremy's wedding as the one they would show on the home page! I'm so happy, delighted and honored! :)

The nice thing too is Cheryl is the person who referred Mae & Jeremy to me so I think we both get some publicity out of this one as well as the wonderful photographer who shot this great wedding, Stewart Pinsky! So not only was it featured on the home page but also on the Favor Section of the Wedding Planning Resource part of the website! It's also pretty amazing how many people see this color combination and want to have it repeated for their wedding!

It's a wonderful way to end a great day! Today, also ended the full 5 days of teaching accelerated classes to Tracey and Vista. They learned a lot and we got a chance to build friendships and I look forward to seeing them back again in November and see how far they've come with all the practice they have to look forward to before then.

I wish I could offer more accelerated courses to interested individuals who want to be instructors, but for now, it's once a quarter based on my busy schedule. If you live out-of-state and are interested in the DECO Clay Craft Academy courses, please contact me and I can give you information.

New Order via TheKnot.com Real Weddings Feature

I was fortunate to be a part of Mae & Jeremy's wedding as a referral through my best friend and wedding planner extraordinaire, Cheryl Shoemaker of Orchid Isle Weddings. I recently found out that Mae & Jeremy's wedding was being featured on TheKnot.com's Real Weddings site!

The feature had lots of great pics of my detail work! Great exposure and the favors I did for their wedding made it into the Wedding Favors photo gallery! The photographer for this wedding was Stewart Pinsky Photography.

Cheryl called me earlier this week to let me know that a bride down in Southern California had contacted her because she LOVED the favors from Mae & Jeremy's wedding and wanted to know who did them. Veronica saw the slideshow pictures from Real Weddings - "Mae & Jeremy, Maui, HI.

I contacted the bride and she LOVED the wedding details I did for Mae & Jeremy. Her colors were green and orange but she was torn because she loved the Teal and Orange I did for Mae & Jeremy. So I created two comps for her over the weekend. Even though I already have a hectic next several months, I felt that I had to do my best to accept the order. The order has now gone from a wedding favor order to wedding favors, reception programs and water bottle sleeves. The bride is trying to convince her fiance to let me do the table cards too!

Anyway, we ended up changing a few things - switching the names so the groom's name is first and then the bride's, switching the cardstock so the green is more predominant. Veronica's flowers are green cymbidiums and white roses, but her centerpieces are orange cymbidiums. Her bridesmaid dresses are green as well. They got engaged in Hawaii so naturally she wants to bring a little bit of "Hawaii" to her wedding day!

Which one do you like best teal and orange or green and orange? Either one is nice, but it is a tough call! In the end, Veronica had to go with the color scheme of oranges and greens