Oct 6, 2026 · 47 min · 11 segments
In this episode of One Tough Cookie, I sit down with Tenesha, the creative force behind Cornflower Creative and The Ruby Gallery & Events. From making headbands and customized T-shirts in middle…
So how did The Cornflower Creative come to life then?
My husband and I had a catering company prior to COVID, and so I had kind of done some of their marketing and stuff.
[laughs]
He had to shut down the catering company, and we were very much at home, and so I took it upon myself to, for whatever reason, I decided I was gonna be a Canva professional.
So I taught myself how to make Squarespace websites, and Canva had put out home education that you could do to become a Canva Pro.
And then people started asking me, as COVID kind of started to wear off, where, like, people were building online businesses, right?
Right.
Mm-hmm.
And so I did have several people ask me to help them build their Squarespace websites, and so that was kind of where I- That came from, and I started doing s- a little bit of the marketing, and then maybe some event production, like online Zoom meetings and things like that.
What did you originally envision for your business, and how has that vision changed over the years?
When I started Cornflower Creative, I really thought that it would be more of, like, wedding planning.
I always thought that wedding planning was what a quintessential thing for me to do, because it takes all of the things that I'm good at, you know?
Mm-hmm.
The decorating, putting events together, dealing with difficult people, you know? It's perfect.
But like I said, nobody was getting [laughs] married, in public at least, and so there was maybe more so a need for elopement planning at that time.
Josh and I technically had more of an elopement type of marriage, but not during COVID, but.
So how did The Cornflower Creative come to life then?
My husband and I had a catering company prior to COVID, and so I had kind of done some of their marketing and stuff.
[laughs]
He had to shut down the catering company, and we were very much at home, and so I took it upon myself to, for whatever reason, I decided I was gonna be a Canva professional.
So I taught myself how to make Squarespace websites, and Canva had put out home education that you could do to become a Canva Pro.
And then people started asking me, as COVID kind of started to wear off, where, like, people were building online businesses, right?
Right.
Mm-hmm.
And so I did have several people ask me to help them build their Squarespace websites, and so that was kind of where I- That came from, and I started doing s- a little bit of the marketing, and then maybe some event production, like online Zoom meetings and things like that.
What did you originally envision for your business, and how has that vision changed over the years?
When I started Cornflower Creative, I really thought that it would be more of, like, wedding planning.
I always thought that wedding planning was what a quintessential thing for me to do, because it takes all of the things that I'm good at, you know?
Mm-hmm.
The decorating, putting events together, dealing with difficult people, you know? It's perfect.
But like I said, nobody was getting [laughs] married, in public at least, and so there was maybe more so a need for elopement planning at that time.
Josh and I technically had more of an elopement type of marriage, but not during COVID, but.
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