paper trail
Nov 10, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS HANNAH JAMES
PHOTOGRAPHY
DEREK SWALWELL
NOT EVERY MOTHER AND DAUGHTER could say they make the perfect team. But Debra Jordan and Brooke Smith can. “We really complement each other,” says Debra, 65, a retired nurse, who launched the paper florist business Paper To You with Brooke in 2013. “Brooke can fold literally thousands of petals and glue them and make these incredible flowers. She makes it look easy – and I can tell you, I’ve tried to do it and it is not easy. So I do the construction, wiring the petals into wreaths and making wedding flowers.”
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