These hard-working women beautify life in the Central Valley
Story by Linda DuBois ∞ Photos by Lori Eanes
When Taylor Camarena was newly married and recently graduated from college, she did “the responsible thing”—sought out a well-paying 9-to-5 job. However, she found she needed to do something that fed her soul and not just her wallet. Recalling how much she had enjoyed a floral design class in high school, she began dabbling in the art form. “I started it as just a hobby,” she said, but when she would share photos of her arrangements on social media, “people actually wanted to purchase them.” So, in 2017, she started a side business in a one- bedroom apartment, where she and her husband set the temperature at 60 degrees to keep the flowers cool. “When I would do an event or something, we would really ice the place out,” she said with a laugh. After they moved into a house, the landlord helped them convert the garage into a studio with a walk-in cooler. Now, the Modesto resident’s business, Taylor Anne Co., is a full-time career. Camarena designs floral arrangements for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, you name it, calling on “an incredible team of freelancers” to help with big events. This year, partly because of the influx of pandemic-postposed weddings, she’s already booked through fall.
Taylor Camarena draws on her training in balancing colors and textures to design floral arrangements for Taylor Anne Co., a now-thriving business she started in a small apartment in 2017.
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