Fragments
Some lovely open orange and pink asiatic lilies have been sitting in a vase on the dining table since last Friday. They started opening up over the weekend (while I was away). They had accidentally been left out of water for a while, so, since I was unsure if they would recover, I decided it'd be safer if I just brought them home. If I were home more often I'd have more time to marvel at their beauty.
Sounds strange, doesn't it? I'm around flowers now all the time, and yet I'm still amazed sometimes by how gorgeous they can be. I think I should start sitting some flowers next to my desk at home, near the computer. Perhaps they'll soothe me or something =)
I went to two weddings in Sydney over the weekend. One Saturday, one Sunday. They were quite lovely. My favourite part of weddings is usually the speeches. This time, it was the groom on Sunday that gave a very sweet speech, in particular what he said about his bride.
hehe, I started paying more attention to the flowers during the weddings =P
ok, brain just stopped working and eyes closing...
Til next time.
Limits
I think it's safe to say that I've been pushing my limits lately. I've been operating on between 4 and 6 hours sleep for most of the last 3 weeks or so. The one day I could sleep in? I woke up after 7 hours. I've been a person who can get by on 7 hours sleep, with 8 being preferable, but perhaps my body will readjust. Or maybe I'm just taking years off my life.
Sleep has been the key physical limit tested. Mentally there has been a lot of testing too, with so much to learn in both the fields of floristry and business management. Apparently I'm a fast learner. At least in the field of floral arrangement anyway. It's nice to know I have a sense of colour and shape. Unfortunately it's going to take a while for me to work at an adequate pace, in part because I'm a naturally careful person.
Part of the reason sleep has been so scarce has been my non-shop related commitments/responsibilities. 'When it rains, it pours' is an apt way of putting it. That is, after a bit of 'drought' in my life (meaning a fairly uneventful several months) everything has been happening all together.
Too tired to make this entry read well. Oh well.
I'd like to tell you all a bit more about how things have gone with the floristry and all, but in brief, it's been hard work, but engaging and parts of it enjoyable. The days have been long, but the time has passed quickly because there's always so much to do. I miss the time I had available before, but I don't question the decision to make the change. As I had considered beforehand, the change has been a huge learning experience, and perhaps at last I will grow more as a person.
More later. For now, time to sleep.
Flowers everywhere
Hi guys... I know it's been a while. Things have been rather hectic, both because of the business as well as other areas of my life.
Apart from having a lot of things I need to follow up on and process, I have been short of sleep. Hopefully this will normalise in the near future.
Today will be my first day as the owner of the business, though the previous owner will still be there for a lot of the week.
Anyway, just a quick post this time, and a photo of an arrangement I made up yesterday. Not a great photo, but I didn't have time to take one in a better spot.
Take care.
