Meant to Be

A lot of you have been asking about life in Boone, what it's like and how Jesse and I like it.  So I wanted to take a minute to tell you!

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When we moved into our little country house I felt like I had moved home.  I don't know how else to describe it!  Everything just feels right here.  I think it's easy to get disconnected from the natural world — like trees and birds and sunshine.  So many of us spend our days behind a computer in a cubical, and it throws of the natural rhythms of the seasons.  It's really calm and refreshing here, and it was just "meant to be."

You were meant to be too.  

Meant to be touching the lives you touch

Meant to be here making this world so much more that it would be without you in it

Meant to be bringing the gifts you bring

Meant to be singing the songs you've been given to sing

You are perfectly, wonderfully, beautifully meant to be

You were meant to be.

Today I was sitting in "the green chair," our favorite living room chair, and Steven Curtis Chapman's song "Meant to be" came on and I was just swept away in the Lord's great love for a few minutes.  The Lord has done great things, friends — in my heart and for Philosophy Flowers.  God has fought every fight and He has given me unusual favor (in the world's eyes, but normal favor in the eyes of someone who knows his heart!), paving the way for me and this work He started in my heart a long time ago.  I've only needed to be still, follow the feathers and trust Him.  His work is so beautiful.

Listen to this song before you leave the blog today.  Don't be distracted by the talking cucumber (this song was written for a children's movie, which actually, I think is really cool, cool as a cucumber, because every child should know this).  Just close your eyes and know, you, right now, today, you were meant to be!

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P.S.  If you feel compelled to visit — do it — do it in May for the "march of the rhododendrons."  That's an event I made up, and it's going to be awesome.  The CRAAAA-Z weather should pass by then.  If you want to come now, come, but hooooooolie molie!  Bring hip boots, mittens, goggles, a parka, and most importantly..."leotards" also known to normal people as long underwear.  This was last week...

Floods...

Floods...

Blizzards...

Blizzards...

P.S. If you like pinterest, follow Philosophy Flowers so we can follow you back!  I looove ideas and I get so many from my friends!

From blue mountains to bigger blue mountains!

I have really exciting news to start 2013 off with a bang!  

I'll cut to the chase — WE'RE MOVING PHILOSOPHY FLOWERS HEADQUARTERS TO THE BOONIES!!!  (a.k.a. Boone, NC)

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No worries Lynchburg fans, we are keeping our workspace in Virginia!  And now we'll be able to source even more unique flowers for events in the 'burg.  The road from Boone to Lynchburg passes by the largest floral distribution center I have ever seen!  Not to mention all the farms and roadsides, where I will undoubtedly spend the majority of my time.  

I'm excited about the new friends and farmers I will meet in North Carolina.  I've already got this place called "Big Bloomers" on my punch list.  :)  Jesse and I will be living in the country next to a rooster and a man that has an awesome vegetable garden.  I have every intention of picking his plant-growing brain.  And his chicken-growing brain.  

Our yard is flat and there are all kinds of interesting plants living in it!  Chiefly, rhododendrons and azaleas!

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I read all about them last night.  

I'm most excited about moving into an actual studio, a room full of windows dedicated solely to styling the most beautiful flowers we can find!  (Kitchen rejoices).  My dad spent Monday painting it the perfect shade of white.  The studio is attached to a massive storage area with shelves, shelves and more shelves.  I no longer lack for space.  I also don't lack woods for foraging or a lawn for planting!

Oh, and remember Millie and the mountain?  Well, now we will be neighbors and I will get to visit her and her huge blue, rhododendron-covered mountain all the time!

Now, I've gotta pack and do some planning.  Our first wedding of the year is in Pennsylvania and it's coming up soon!