Season 2
Episodes
Episode 49 - Building a Flower with Lucia Balcazar
Today we talk to Lucia Balcazar, the author of Build a Flower: A Beginner's Guide to Paper Flowers. Lucia has an easily recognizable signature style of deep colours and strong graphic lines in her paper flower art....
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Episode 50: The Ins and Outs of Starting a Subscription Box with Rachel Heath
As paper flower entrepreneurs, we are always re-evaluating our business and trying to tweak our strategy so we can increase our profit margin while at the same time, saving time. In the last few years, subscription...
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Episode 48 - Selling, Teaching & Buying: Intellectual Property Considerations
In this episode, we address some of the concerns that Quynh has about her collaboration with artists for The Posey Box and the issue of intellectual ownership. We both offer online courses for purchase, and we teach...
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Episode 47 - International Paper Flower Day with Kate Alarcon
May 14 is International Paper Flower Day, and in celebration of this special day, we've invited one of our favourite artists, Kate Alarcon of The Cobralily, to talk about it with us. Thanks to Kate - she came up with...
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Episode 46 - Spreading Hope with Flowers with Holly and Alex Chapple
One of the highlights of Quynh's involvement in Design Days 2020 was having the chance to meet Holly Heider Chapple! You've likely seen Holly's beautiful work all over social media and she's been featured in numerous...
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Episode 45: Exhibiting Your Work at an Art Gallery with Tiffany McIsaac
Last year, Jessie had an amazing opportunity to showcase a few pieces of her floral sculptures at The Freedom Factory Toronto after one of the owners of the gallery, Tiffany MacIsaac, handpicked her to be a part of a...
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Episode 44 - Transforming Your Paper Flower Passion into a Business
Today we talk about our passion project for the last few months - Paper to Profits!
When we returned from the Masterclass in Monroe, Washington last year, we met so many incredibly talented paper florists who were...
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Episode 43: Bookkeeping 101 with Meka West
April is Financial Literacy Month so it's the perfect time to talk about money with Meka West of Penny Smart Girl! Meka is a certified accountant and she is the founder of online bookkeeping and money coaching firm...
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Episode 42: The New 90 G Italian Crepe Paper with Mike Benso
We are catching up with Mike Benson of Carte Fini. Carte Fini is based in San Diego, California and it is an online distributor of Cartotecnica Rossi Italian crepe paper and ships worldwide.
Mike chatted with us on...
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Episode 41 - Fleurs de Villes with Alicia Schwede
This year, from February 26 to March 1, 2020, our florist friend and mentor, Alicia Schwede of Bella Fiori and the Flirty Fleurs blog, participated in a floral event by Fleurs de Villes at the Northwest Flower &...
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Episode 40 - Pursuing your Floral Interests with Nita Komarakul
We admire sugar flower artists from afar but sometimes we just can’t help ourselves and want to know more about this craft that is in ways so similar to our own. One of the artists we admire is Nita Komarakul. Nita is...
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Episode 39 - Is Covid-19 Affecting You?
Over the weekend, our governments began to implement stricter guidelines and policies regarding social distancing in efforts to "flatten the curve" and slow down the spread of Covid-19. Many countries are...
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