Annie’s Passion for flowers began 2004 when a college girlfriend asked her to design her wedding flowers. Lacking any training or experience Annie tackled the job. Fortunately, the designs were glorious and Annie’s love of flowers and floral design has grown ever since.

After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Music from the University of Oregon, Annie switched gears and found a career in HR recruitment and then sales.  Working in the corporate world for over 10 years was a great experience but Annie’s entrepreneurial spirit, desire, and need for a flexible schedule led her down the path into a floral career.  Annie attended the Floral Design Institute in 2009 and then created Floral Sunshine, a full-service studio-based event floral business.

When Annie isn’t filling her bucket with her favorite flowers like dahlias and peonies, she’s filling her bucket with fresh fish and seafood.  Her accomplished bucket list includes: salmon, steelhead, trout, various rockfish, lingcod, tuna, halibut, perch, eel, mahi mahi, papio, smelt, shad, skate, sole, sturgeon, clams, mussels and crab.

Even as small child, Chelle loved flowers. You would often find her gathering flowers from the garden, open fields and maybe even the neighbor’s. (Don’t tell!) As an adult, her professional journey in floral design officially began in the spring of 1997; working for a florist cutting and taping oasis into teacups for 8 hours a day. (Oh, joy!) Her talent was quickly recognized and soon, she moved into a designer role. (Whew!) Continuing as a retail floral designer until the birth of her second child, Chelle found family and work-life flexibility with beginning her own studio based floral business. Specialties are weddings and sympathy designs. With nearly two decades of design experience she has a vast portfolio and loves working with clients to help create unique floral arrangements for their special occasion. Chelle’s floral design work has been featured at the annual Governor’s Conference on Tourism, the Ninth Moon Floral Design Exposition and at the Frank Adam’s Flower Hour. Grateful for opportunities that have allowed her to work with and learn from designers from around the U.S. and Belgium, Chelle loves sharing her talents in the FDI Learning Center.