Word & Plant

05/17/2026

Whew! As usual- late to the post! 🤣 Had an amazing time at festival last weekend (and promptly got taken down by a nasty cold, hence the late post)!

I was so happy to see some local friends and make new ones + meet new creative folks like the wonderful Etoile ! I was being my usual geeky self, gushing about my flower pounding on wood projects and how I’ve been waiting impatiently for my first suitable dye flowers to bloom. A few decided to show their pretty pink faces last weekend and I had some beautiful maple pocket flower press plates (thank you, ) mordanted and ready to go! Just LOOK at that wood burning magic Etoile shared with me! I’m excited to try again (no hard nibs this time)! But in the meantime, lots of flower pounding on wood happening here now that the flowers are arriving!

Hope everyone who adopted some of my Ecoprinted goodies or dried flower creations enjoys them and loves wrapping themselves in flowers! 🌸

05/04/2026

Comin’ your way, Bull City!

🌿I’m so so excited to be collaborating with the stupendous in Durham to bring a make ‘n’ take workshop on MAY 31!
💚 Is it…a wooden journal? A sketchbook? A magical woodland book of spells?
✨Yes, yes, and yes!
🌸 Annnddddd… a flower press!

🌿This one’s been living in my head for a while and I can’t wait to share with you all! Some of my favorite things about this beauty are:
💚 Beautiful hardwood front and back covers
💚 Clothed in farm-grown botanicals (I bring the pressed botanicals, you bring the vision!)
💚 Natural cork fabric spine
💚 Beautiful metal hardware from my bagmaking stash
💚 And oodles of pages of high quality blotter paper and chipboard for all your flower pressing fun!
💚 I’m also including a couple of pages of watercolor paper and bringing some fun watercolor pens for folks to make their own personalized cover page! 🎨
🌿 And, psssstttttt- it’s a BINDER! So you really can use it in any way that works for you!

✍🏽Sign-up on my website! (You know where to find the link! 😘)

04/28/2026

I’m always a little behind on posts, but I’ve been SO excited to share more about the Community Indigo Project I’ve been guiding for several months- Stories In Blue!

I knew I wanted a “permanent” place for a big, happy indigo vat at our little farm and for that to be a place that folks could come, gather, dye AND learn how indigo is truly a part of all of our shared heritage! That permanent indigo vat home is still being built, but in the meantime, we’re moving forward with the community art magic! Art waits for no one!

This reel shows some of the joy and fun we made at our free Community Indigo Dyeing event on April 12! Each community member got to dye TWO squares of fabric- one to take home and one to leave with me to be sewn into a community quilt!

Stay tuned to see some of the indigo fun we had at four Chatham County, NC public schools where over 125 kids were able to contribute their beautiful art to the quilt and also take home a square of their very own. And hug an art teacher (with consent, of course!)! What a beautiful blessing to the world our art teachers are!!

We’ve just begun sewing-up the quilt and our own local treasure, has so kindly offered her mad quilting skills to quilt it up for us! Thank you, Bea!! 🙏🏽

A HUGE thank you to all the volunteers, community members, and art teachers who have been the real ARTISTS in this project and whose creativity, excitement and joy have been bringing me so much joy. 🥹 I can’t wait for all the folks involved to be able to enjoy the finished quilt and know it’s truly been an all-hands community art project!

Stories in Blue: A Community Indigo Project is commissioned by the Chatham Arts Council and funded in part by a grant from the Chatham Arts Council, with support from Chatham County. Additional support provided by Chatham County Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources (Chatham Arts Center) and Chatham County Schools.

04/04/2026

Come see us at the til 12 noon! 🌸 Edible flower “burladamas” (our play on kokedamas), everlasting flower bud vases with native flowers in bloom now (can you tell what’s there? 😍) and, as ever, our signature dried flower goodies featuring our small farm-grown blooms!

More Ecoprinted and naturally dyed textiles coming soon! Waiting for my beautiful 2026 blooms and leaves! I hope you’ll love seeing how different they look than the autumn-made textiles as even leaves from the same plants will have completely different colors and textures in the spring and then in the summer! Not to mention the seasonal variety of flowers! Stay tuned 💚

03/13/2026

So excited to be featured in Spring 2026 issue which has hit newsstands (print version)!

I’m so grateful for the care they took in telling the story of my business, Word & Plant, and honored to be featured alongside so many amazing local women!

The piece shares the path that brought me to where W&P is now — from many years in applied public-sector research to building Word & Plant from the ground up (literally and figuratively) and tending my little diamond in the rough: The Garden Haven & Farm in Pittsboro, NC.

You’ll also find a callout introducing Stories in Blue, a community indigo project I’m excited to lead with support from the Chatham Arts Council. This spring we’ll gather around indigo as plant, pigment, and shared cultural thread— dyeing together, contributing to a collective quilt, connecting with one another through this amazing plant and practice that is a part of all our shared heritage. Community participation is completely free.

If you’re local and would like details on how to participate — whether you’re a Chatham County, NC resident interested in contributing a story or simply want to join the free community indigo dye day on April 12 — sign up for my newsletter on my website [wordandplant.com]. I’ll be sharing all the next steps there and would love to welcome you into the blue fold! 💙

03/06/2026

So honored to be featured alongside so many amazing women in the spring issue of Chatham Magazine! Paper copies hitting newsstands this weekend (better get them quickly because you know I’ll be out there snapping them up!)! 😍🌸

Meet 7 women helping shape our community, gather fresh inspiration for your home and garden, discover new spots for family fun and so much more!

12/15/2025

So glad the super cold weather waited until yesterday to arrive so we were able to enjoy our day at .spoke.farm ! It’s always so lovely to get to meet folks face-to-face, share my love of plants, color, and art and hear about who will be gifted a little slice of our flower forward botanical creativity!
💜 I’m not gonna lie…this year has been HARD. Lots of sad and painful happenings + closing on our little farm property in April and going ALL-IN on the dream!!! (I do NOT recommend trying to start a farm in April in NC, BTW!)
💕 While we removed invasives and my awesome hubby prepped a growing field for me, complete with beautiful fencing (sorry, deer! I share everywhere else!), I put hundreds of backbreaking hours into cultivating “production gardens” for the time being.
💜 So finally getting to the harvest and CREATE phase where my beautiful plants get to shine and go out into the world was a sweet and much-needed reward!
🌸 And what’s even better is seeing how enthusiastic YOU all are at these markets!! 🥹
✨You just never really know how folks will receive your work until you put yourself out there!
🥰 So a big THANK YOU to my local folks who, even when it’s not the day to buy something, go out of their way to come over to my booth and share sweet, kind, and encouraging words! It means more than you know!
🌟 One last market this year! This Saturday in Chapel Hill at the !! Hope to see you there!

12/08/2025

Thank you for another very warm welcome at the this past Saturday! It was SO cold out there, but y’all are troopers! 🥶
💚 I really need to get video BEFORE selling out of so many beautiful botanical items (I had no idea folks would love my ecoprinted bamboo socks as much as I do! Note to self: take photos BEFORE market!)
🍃 Excited to be popping up at .spoke.farm THIS weekend, 12 noon to dusk on Saturday and Sunday (12/13-12/14)!!
🍁I’m busy prepping textiles (linen/cotton napkins, SOCKS galore…) for flower and leaf printing!
🌸 …wiring and glueing dried flower wreaths (including some beautiful grapevine STARS ⭐️ for your wall OR on top of your tree and more gorgeous and whimsical crescent moons + previous flower-forward ornaments!)
😍 I’ve also added my first workshop of 2026 to the calendar for January 18- separate post coming soon! We’ll be making these magical silk bundle dyed wall hangings to brighten up the dreary winter with the gift of natural dyes!
✨I’ll have a special code for Broken Spoke Market attendees this weekend AND my newsletter subscribers will get an early bird code soon too! Sign up through the ljnk in my bio if you’re not there already!

11/18/2025

11/10/2025

I don’t know about you all, but I’m one of those people who needs a push (like an external commitment!) once in a while to get me to change gears from one phase to another!
💚 I was so inspired and excited to switch from outdoor farm mode back to creation mode for my first fall/winter market of the season and get to finally play and create with my beautiful flowers and leaves, so lovingly tended until now!
🌿 Still so many botanical creations in different stages of completion and I’ll have those at the upcoming Winter Craft Markets that will be every Saturday starting November 22 (off the Saturday after Thanksgiving)!
🌸 I’m hoping to get some goodies up in the online shop for shipping or local pickup as well! Let me know in the comments if there’s anything you’re most excited to see! (Tabletop dried botanical art like the large one in my last reel and very fairyland inspired!! Flower & leaf printed decor, bags, and socks. More indigo-dyed goodies, dried botanical jewelry…)