Going to Haiti!

I’m going to Haiti with 32 SMU college students through a college ministry with my church, Watermark Community Church this Sunday. We’ll be partnering with Mission of Hope Haiti (MOH), an evangelical holistic ministry that has been operating in Haiti for over 40 years.


Visit their site, http://www.mohhaiti.org/, for more information.

The MOH complex sits on 76 acres of land and employs over 150 Haitians. Approximately 1,300 children are enrolled in the School of Hope, the Hope House Orphanage is home to almost 60 children, Hope Clinic sees hundreds of patients every week and over 1000 adults, youth and children come from surrounding villages to attend the Church of Hope.

This trip will focus on serving with Mission of Hope on and off site with various projects ranging from construction, to food distribution, to orphan care, to evangelism.

Here is the link to the blog if you want updates during our time in Haiti - it goes live tomorrow!

http://one28haiti.wordpress.com

Welcome Back Emily!

Blue hydrangea, red tulips, yellow buttons and light pinkish white "fancy" tulips. Delish.

So glad you are back from your 3 month vacation...I mean maternity leave, Emily!

I Like Color

That's all.

Happy 10 Year Anniversary Erin!

My "BFF" at work, and for those of you who are out of the loop - that stands for Best Friend Forever, Erin, just celebrated her 10 Year Anniversary at Fossil. Her boss Diane (who incidentally hired me straight out of UT and was my boss for several years at Fossil as well), asked me to make a fun arrangement to celebrate her "service" at the company. Voila! The true colors in the photo above show how happy it is.

However since I LOVE my new Instagram app...I had to do some artsy farsty stuff to the photos too....

Happy Anniversary Erin!

A Fancy Dinner Party for the Fossil Jewelry Team

These table centerpieces for a dinner party are from the archives too. They may be some of the favorite arrangements I've made. Pink can be cliche when used alone, but when combined with pops of orange and lime green, it instantly becomes modern and fresh.

White freesia has a sweet peppery fragrance, but the pink freesia I used in these arrangements has a much sweeter smell.

FRIENDLY TIP: Freesia is great for wedding bouquets and table arrangements because of its subtley sweet fragrance. It's used a lot in perfumes - I swear I smell it in Viktor & Rolf's Flowerbomb! Freesia comes in purple too....it does it all.

This particular dinner party was for the Fossil jewerly team so they added some pieces right before setting the table. A bit of glitz never hurt anyone.

A Rustic Dining Room Table Centerpiece at The Finks

This is a project from 2010, but I thought it was worth sharing. My friend Jennifer has a great eye for interiors - last year she painted her formal dining room a deep rich purple, so we quickly concocted a way to "dress the dining room table" with some of our recent finds from a huge antique show called Round Top - a wide French Bread Board and old purple-tinted wine bottles.

Check out the lighting from the window....makes the multi-colored ranunculas and wildflowers look like they are sprouting out of the wine bottles.

Yes, I went back to Good 2 Go Tacos...

...and the tacos were as tasty as they look on Cassie's face. Check out the new outdoor seating - long church pews!

The Swine Bleu taco...delish...braised pork and fresh blue cheese slaw. HELLO.

We dropped off a small "welcome to the new location" arrangement in an old spaghetti sauce jar to our favorite people, co-owners Colleen and Jeana.

And dog friendly!