Lake Travis - Westlake Edition | October 2022

BUSINESS FEATURE

BY TAYLOR CRIPE

Seasonal Creamy Garden arrangement ($65)

ORGANIC FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS

The Creamy Garden arrangement has blossoms in shades of white, cream and green. Flower type can vary based on availability.

Magpie’s owner, Nikki Mackenzie, creates her oral designs in a style known as English garden style. The technique requires shorter stems to give the appearance of large, lush blossoms. Pictured are two oral arrangements crafted by Mackenzie and her team in the English garden style.

Magpie Blossom Boutique has ower displays for its various bouquets.

Seasonal Vibrant Garden arrangement ($100)

COURTESY MAGPIE BLOSSOM BOUTIQUE

The Seasonal Vibrant Garden arrangement is specically designed to be low and dense for the English garden style. Flowers vary but usually have a similar quality and style.

TAYLOR CRIPECOMMUNITY IMPACT

Magpie Blossom Boutique Local orist shop works to give customers a hometown experience N early 10 years after opening her oral shop, Magpie Blossom Boutique, owner “I just looked around the Lakeway and Bee Cave area; out of the question.” Instead, Mackenzie said she

Nikki Mackenzie, owner of Magpie Blossom Boutique, opened her oral business in 2012 in the Lakeway area.

nobody was doing what I would have wanted to do with owers,” Mackenzie said. “You can get owers at HEB and Randalls. But that wasn’t the niche part of the business I enjoy.” The part of the business Mackenzie enjoys is getting to be creative with her ower designs and creating organic style arrangements. There are technical ways to arrange the owers; the work is similar to an interior design or art project, she said. Mackenzie said she does not want her owers to look like the generic oral arrangements people see in grocery stores and said “ordinary is

takes pride in getting to know her customers, learning their style and working to craft something they will enjoy. Mackenzie, who runs the shop with her two daughters and a small sta, said her team specializes in old-fashioned business. Despite the rising number of American adults who do their shopping online, and the challenges brought on by the pandemic, Mack- enzie has not changed her resolve to be the town’s family orist. “We’re unique because we are family,” she said. “We are always attentive and present to our customers.”

COURTESY MAGPIE BLOSSOM BOUTIQUE

Nikki Mackenzie said she is still pursuing her dream of being a shopkeeper in small-town America. “I have always dreamed of basically living in a small-town community, where you know the shopkeepers and the shopkeeper knows your family, and it’s all family-owned local businesses,” she said. Mackenzie, who was an event planner in the corporate world before opening her boutique in 2012, said she started life wanting to be a orist. When she got the chance to start her own business, she decided to do something dierent.

Magpie Blossom Boutique 3500 S. RM 620, Ste. F100, Bee Cave 512-494-6198 www.magpieblossoms.com Hours: Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Sun.

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