Downtime & Networking

So, currently I am without a full-time job. Due to the economy I have not been able to invest fully into my floral business. So, I have always relied on a full-time job to pay bills and to live off of. Through this down economy though, finding a full-time job has proved to be quite difficult...I'm almost to the point of pulling the fact that I have a bachelors off of my resume to at least be considered for an administrative job.

Fortunately however, with the down time I have naturally had a lot of time on my hands to concentrate more on promoting my business! This so far has basically included finding facebook friends, updating my website and looking into taking more design classes to enhance my skills. I have also been feverishly researching other floral designers to ensure that I'm in constant knowledge and ensuring that I'm harnessing any new techniques!

I am very excited for August as well! My niece's 2nd birthday party is coming up and my sister is doing a minnie mouse theme. My niece absolutely loves minnie mouse and we are excited to be putting a hot pink and zebra print spin on it all! For the centerpieces we are going to be creating minnie heads out of Styrofoam with the base surrounded by fresh cut flowers. So, I will soon be working on figuring out which flowers to use (probably gerbs and roses mainly).

In addition, I have my last Gallo Wines event for the year! This last event will be at the Hollywood Bowl again, and that night will be John Williams and the music of the movies. Now, as most of you know I LOVE movies probably as much as I love flowers! I'm still not sure what color scheme Gallo wants to go with...but I'm hoping something adventurous and creative!

Knowing my luck, I'll get a full-time job just before both of these events...which means the pressure of balancing time will be on!

Hope you are all having a great summer and be sure to stop and enjoy the flowers!