Cynthia Mufandaedza has opened her own flower and gift shop following the closure of Flowers North last month.

Called Dash Floral Designs and Gifts, her venture is located at 162 Kam Lake Road and opened on Dec. 1.

Mufandaedza is a certified floral designer and event designer. She has been working with florals for a decade as part of her event design business, Dash Event Designs and Rentals.

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Causing intrigue is the timing of the business opening. Flowers North closed in early November. That business was owned by Stacie Arden Smith SA国际影视传媒� a fellow former city councillor who served alongside Mufandaedza.

Mufandaedza acknowledged the conspicuous timing.

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She also stated that she is good friends with Arden Smith.

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Mufandaedza said her vision is for her business to be a one-stop shop for celebrations.

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She also shared her elation over being able to arrange her flora designs on her own, now that she does not rely on sub-contractors to do it for her.

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Though she intends to keep her work original, she also plans to make use of relevant national and international trends in her floral design work.

SA国际影视传媒淥ne of the things that I was working on was to try to follow Christmas trends in Australia, Japan, Africa, the U.S. as well as in Canada.

SA国际影视传媒淲e noticed that in some regard (the flora scene in Yellowknife was) following trends two or three years behind.

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