craig cramer is an upstate new york-based gardener who scans blooms and plants from his home garden and archives them on his blog. the scans are categorized by month, illustrating what is happening during each growing season.
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Loretta Flower is Austin, Texas-based brand strategist, (retired) floral designer, writer, and stylist Mary Kathryn Paynter
all photos by mary kathryn paynter unless otherwise noted. all rights reserved.
Monday, March 7, 2011
craig cramer
craig cramer is an upstate new york-based gardener who scans blooms and plants from his home garden and archives them on his blog. the scans are categorized by month, illustrating what is happening during each growing season.
(via viet anemi)
Sunday, March 6, 2011
the lillies
amid the gray trunks of ancient trees we found the gay woodland lilies nodding on their stems, frail and fair, so delicately balanced the air held or moved them as it stood or moved. the ground that slept beneath us woke in them and made a music of the light, as it had waked and sung in fragile things unnumbered years, and left their kind no less symmetrical and fair for all that time. does my land have the health of this, where nothing falls but into life?
-wendell berry
(photo--very sentimental graffiti spotted this weekend in the cheer up charlie's bathroom)
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
loretta brides: theresa, part 1
theresa was referred to loretta by my very supportive friend kristin, and was looking for a small amount of flowers for her very small wedding in driftwood. initially, theresa wanted to do a color palette of black, white, and green. we discussed flower likes and dislikes, and i came up with an inspiration board of collected images that reflected the direction i was thinking:
after looking over some of my previous work, theresa decided that she loved the look of bright colors, especially reds, greens, and oranges, popping against her white dress. so we revised the color palette and inspiration board accordingly:
still keeping the loose style, but adding bright pops and contrasts of color. we decided that while this would be the color palette for the wedding, that we would keep costs down for her bridal portrait bouquet by being more flexible based on what was available that week. 
last sunday i met theresa out in driftwood for her bridal portraits--brightly colored springtime bouquet in hand. the weather was misty to drizzly, but it actually made the colors really sing in the photos. bonus: theresa also requested a flower collar for her sweet ten-year-old lab, juno, who begrudgingly obliged.
***starting the first in a series of posts featuring the lovely brides of loretta flower. i hope these posts can somewhat illustrate the process of wedding planning that happens here at loretta... please feel free to comment with any feedback***
stamps on all those letters
exactly what kind of amazing things can happen with a flower delivery...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
a very nice thing
march is off to a running start, but felt lucky to get a nice and somewhat relaxing weekend in before. big big thanks to refinery 29 and madewell for including me in their street style shoot in austin this weekend. everyone was lovely. you can check out my rad outfit here.
i'm excited to launch a new regular series of posts tomorrow on the brides of loretta, but for now, just wanted to share one of the many tiny joys that comes with being surrounded by beautiful things all day:
having flowers by the bedside.
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