Autumn McGrath-Shook, the owner/designer at Village Floral House of Boulder City, NV has an extensive background and education in fine art, with several National First Place Awards; including several Scholastic Gold Keys. She has shown at galleries in NYC and Las Vegas, and has been published or recognized in six newspapers and five magazines in four different states. Autumn had an active art career spanning many years of custom and original artwork and live art performances on many stages in Las Vegas, including the House of Blues concert hall at Mandalay Bay.

Throughout this time, she worked in flower shops and event companies during the day for over two decades in Las Vegas. Autumn would absorb everything like a sponge, get bored easily and more often than not; quite disenchanted, and taking notes on how she was going to do better someday, work harder and smarter, practice total integrity, treat the customers better, and treat the flowers better, She was always restless to try something else with a new shop, or new designer. Passion and principle bursting out of the seams in a stale environment, always lead to wanting to move on. From obsessively memorizing every angle of the industry at a young age, to just working long hard hours the old fashioned way, working her way up little by little, in each type of floral design, She did it all; from celebrity events and eccentric Vegas celebrity clientele, weddings and funerals of every kind, corporate, hotel and private mansion accounts, industry wholesalers,, filling orders for the mega websites, and little corner shops. She also picked up many independent creative side jobs of all kinds for venues around Las Vegas along the way. Autumn became an iron-clad, high speed solid designer in high demand. Each job served a great learning purpose, each was exciting in it’s own way, and made her a sharper designer, while cementing life-long friendships in the Las Vegas floral industry, a small community of very hard working people.

In 2022, after two decades in Vegas and Henderson, she moved to Boulder City, Nevada. with her husband and three dogs. Downsizing and escaping to a slow, simple, peaceful, life taking in the clean air and quiet starlit nights. The simpler life lends itself very well to feeling energized and passionate about running a small business. Autumn sees daily life as full of miraculous moments, deep meaning, connection, and being surrounded by unseen divine forces, she naturally brings an intuition and sensitivity to the meaning and statement behind sending flowers and statements of friendship. Autumn prefers to work alone, and is passionate about doing everything as she learned best in her years of hard-scrabbled experience and she handles all of the daily work, cleaning, flower prep, emails, errands and hand selecting all of the flowers herself at the markets. Autumn can easily shop, prep, create and delivery the pieces for very large events by herself in a few days. She often marvels at how previous companies that she worked for took entire teams of people to do the same amount of work and set up.

She doesn’t consider a moment of it to be meaningless or just “work”. and doesn’t feel a day older than that same kid cutting away at her dreams. She quietly donates to charities on a regular basis, is active in local service clubs and community action, and randomly passes out little free floral arrangements all over Boulder City, NV. Autumn donates farm-fresh floral arrangements for every holiday, to the State Veterans Home and The Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery. She has never once donated to anyone “old flowers that cannot be used” ; as was mistakenly AdLibbed by the local Boulder City newspaper in an otherwise and overall attempt at a flattering article, Funeral and Tribute work is especially near and dear to Autumn’s huge heart, as she cares very deeply about respecting the ceremony, spirituality, and honor in the life of others. She finds endless meaning and gratitude in being able to be of service to others in creating something that displays their emotions in times of great grief.