I am a full-time teacher who enjoys making art. My preferred medium is floral art, primarily one-of-a-kind flower arrangements incorporating paints, a variety of modified fillers, ribbons, and artificial flowers. However, I also enjoy creating wearable floral art, including clips and barrettes.
Growing up with my grandparents, I went with them to the local cemeteries in my hometown where my grandparents always brought homemade artificial flower arrangements to place on the gravesites of our relatives. My grandmother made these arrangements herself and, when she died, my grandfather took over, adding her grave to his list of loved ones he made arrangements for each season of the year. When my mother died in 2011, I started making my own arrangements and my grandfather asked me to take over for him. Sometimes, we will sit in his basement, lovingly pressing fake flower stems into cemetery-vase-shaped Styrofoam together in memory of the people we love.
When my father died in 2022, people honored him by providing us, his daughters, with live plants in addition to gorgeous flower arrangements made from cut live flowers. Unfortunately, I was unable to keep the live plant in my home due to having cats and I lived in an apartment, so I didn’t have a yard to plant it in. So, I planted the memorial plant outside my father’s home. We had to sell the land where my father lived a few months later. If the plant had been pet-safe or I had a permanent place to plant my memorial plant in my home, I would still have this plant. Losing my memorial plant signified losing my father again.
Since then, I have created artificial flower arrangements for colleagues, friends, and loved ones to give them a gift that memorializes the big moments in their lives and I have honed my craft over the years, experimenting with ways to make my art more and more polished.
If you have a major life event you would like to memorialize or you need floral decor for a celebration or party celebrating a person or event in your life, please consider purchasing a one-of-a-kind artificial flower arrangement from me.
Understanding that cost can be a barrier while also seeking to provide a unique floral art experience to my clients, I offer a variety of types of vases with ranges of customization available with a range of prices. I offer the following options for vases and filler types:
- Transparent glass vases of various sizes and shapes
- Painted transparent glass vases of various sizes and shapes
- Small pebble/rock filler
- Fine rock filler
- Sand filler
- Hand painted glass stone or bead filler
- A combination of the other kinds of fillers
About the Name
“Take No Thought for the Morrow” is a quote from one of my favorite scriptures from the KJV Bible. It reads as follows: “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” This passage is from the book of Matthew, Chapter 6, verse 34.
There’s a lot in the world to be worried about. There’s a lot of evil in the world, but my God is bigger than all of those things. We can safely focus on the problems of today. Be aware of the problems that are longer-reaching, but we need to focus on today’s problems as we go through our days. Worrying about things that haven’t happened or may never happen won’t make it better. We can be the change we want to see in the world, but we can only control ourselves.
Another Bible verse, Philippians Chapter 4, verse 8, reads as follows: “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” So, I believe we can take some time to think on pleasant things, like the flowers, the trees, the oceans, the mountains, and the sky. Just as there is a lot of evil in the world today, there is a lot of good, a lot of truth, and a lot of virtue. Let’s take some time to think on those things, too.
I have loved flowers fervently over the years. I love looking at the live ones, sniffing the bouquets in the stores, walking into the floral section of an arts and crafts store, wearing them on my dresses and shirts, and manipulating artificial ones into a bouquet for myself or the people I love. My house is filled with flower arrangements I have made myself. Even my classroom has a flower arrangement I’ve put in the corner in the front of the room. It’s one of the first things visitors to my classroom see each day.
The chapter that “no thought for the morrow” comes from also says the following:
“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
-Matthew 6:25-34
Anyway, this business is my opportunity to create my art and share it with people who might need a little pick-me-up, who might need a little reminder to take “no thought for the morrow, for tomorrow shall take thought for the things of itself.”
No Thought for the Morrow Floral and Gifts 