I love this first one. There are only 9 roses in it but I could've definitely added 3 more and made it a dozen. It is just a new contemporary way to send a dozen roses. It doesn't look as much as if you did a traditional dozen in a vase, but I would rather get this. :)

A half dozen roses with my new favorite filler!!

Gaye liked this arrangement so much that she had me make two similar ones.

I love making arrangments in these baskets!

A happy birthday present!

I got to organize and design this for the shop to add a little more to the look. It was fun to gather and design using the elements and principles of design.

Summer Events

This lady came in and was throwing a company picnic or something to that effect. She was going to put butcher paper on the tables but wanted something to bring some color. She didn't want to spend much because it was out of her own pocket (not part of her budget). She brought in the mason jars and wanted each of them to look like she had just gathered them from her garden and stuck them in the jars. She was going to do 12 but lowered it to 10 jars, $7 each. I think they turned out perfect for what she wanted. They were all different too. It was a fun project.



Since Bruce is on the hospital board, we did these 9 centerpieces for the hospital open house. They were donated from Rexburg Floral. The board wanted them mostly yellow and we decided to add purple since they are complementary colors and I love them together especially with the sunflowers.

Weddings!

Lately, I've been the one to do the wedding work, mostly because I take the orders and know what people want and I am at work all the time so I am available to do them!

Here are some of the things I've done recently:

For this wedding, we did the boutonnieres and single flowers for the bridesmaids to hold. It seems that bridesmaids bouquets are getting smaller and smaller to non-existant. Maybe people don't want to pay for them to have a lot of flowers. I don't know. I'm glad my bridesmaids had bouquets. The boutonnieres are a new style that I picked up and I love it! They are just 2 rose petals rolled up. They look like calla lilies and make the "rose" bout not look so huge. They definitely look more classy and elegant, especially for weddings. The next time we do dance flowers for the high schools, I want to suggest this type of boutonniere. The red one was for the groom and the white ones were for the father's and grandfather I believe.

This next wedding bouquet was for a girl that was getting her bridal portraits done and wanted some flowers. She didn't want to spend much so we did a little bouquet (about the size that I would do a throw away bouquet) for her. It was hand-tied with orange tulle ribbon. It seems like a lot of people nowadays like gerber daisies in their bouquets or bouquets full of them. One girl came in Saturday and wanted 13 gerbs in her wedding bouquet. I wish people would pick other flowers. I love gerbs and think they are cute and bright. I just think girls don't want their weddings to be as formal of an event and gerbs make it more cute, contempory and casual.

Dallas Cowboys

Our Dallas Cowboy's arrangement. I guess we do sports arrangements too now! This is exactly what he asked for and he loved it. Everything is color tooled except the carnations and delphinium. The stars on their helmets!

I got to use the orchids from Mother's Day in this arrangment. They are getting old but still look so perfect.

A guy used this to propose last night to his girlfriend. He made her carry it around all night without opening it and then he was going to propose. I'm not sure of the details. It has 2 pink roses inside and 1 white one with some greens. A cute basket arrangement for an older lady's birthday. :)

6/17/2009

Gaye couldn't come in today because she was super sick, and not only that but she didn't have any balance; no equilibrium. We don't know what it is but she's been complaining about being dizzy a lot lately. I feel bad. She sounded terrible on the phone. Marianne came in to the rescue and we worked together all day. She had Weston for the second half because she didn't have a babysitter for the afternoon. It was super busy in the morning until about 12 and then it totally died down to almost nothing. It was good and we got a lot accomplished.
I love this pastel arrangement.This is the same arrangement from Teleflora from two posts ago. We got another one and so I made it. It is really hard to make and make cute, but at least this one wasn't going to a competitor. :) I liked how it turned out though. It could totally be a wedding bouquet.

Maybe that's why they call it Everyday...

This is just some of the arrangements I do a lot, pretty much everyday!

I just love this vase and was really surprised when the guy picked it out. It is $17.95 alone.

One of my most favorite designs. I just love doing arrangements in these bright colored baskets.

Fresh Blossom Potpourri

A happy birthday bouquet that no one else likes to do.

Another happy birthday present bouquet that no one likes to do but me.

I'm getting better at bows!!!

This guy came in right before closing time and wanted an arrangment in a different, keepsake vase. We pulled out a bunch of different kinds and Jaime sold him on the Coke glass (you can't really tell). And then he wanted a Dr. Seuss arrangement. This is what we came up with in his low budget. I think it turned out way fun and exciting. I just wished we had allium. We just tried to do cool shapes, colors and textures to bring out the Dr. Seuss feel.

For a baby girl...

This arrangement went to President Eyring's wife and the next one went to President and Sister Clark who are the president and matron of Brigham Young University-Idaho.