June 4th, 2011
I used to not love Stephanotis much but the day I made this bouquet I couldn’t get enough of the smell of them so I started to love them. Commercially grown flowers have little or no smell and working in a shop everyday really decreases the amount of flower smells I notice but the Stephanotis are sweet and fragrant. I love sensory memories and think that specific scent would be wonderful to bring back wedding day memories. This bouquet was ruffled and pretty, my picture doesn’t do it justice!
White Hydrangea, White Spray Roses, Movie Star Roses, White Mini-Callas, Stephanotis
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May 31st, 2011
Really, I do stuff. I just have a 2.75 year old apprentice and a lot of forgetfulness! This is a pretty, petite picture bouquet from last week using my favorite Geraldine Roses and Colorado Spray Roses and pearl necklace wrapped stems. I really liked this idea, thinking how sweet it would be to have a necklace to wear on everyday occasions that was a part of your wedding day. I like that idea a lot.
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April 4th, 2011
A revisit from a wedding 2 years ago, I loved this one!
Flowers: Green Hydrangea, White Dahlias, Succlents, Magnolia, Fern Curls, White Mini-Calla Lilies, Chocolate Cosmos, White Freesia, Green Bouvardia, Green Hanging Amaranthus, Poppy Pods, Saracena, Flax, Chocolate Orchids, White Anemones
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April 1st, 2011
Another Utah florist snapped this picture while delivering flowers to a local funeral. Really.
There are so many problems with online ordering/national wire services. In my year and a half as a shop owner I have received dozens of calls for incoming orders for delivery in rural Manti from almost all of the national wire services. 100% of the time I do not have the products they have sold to their customer and I hear from them “just do whatever, I can’t find anyone else to fill the order”, true story. Besides that, unless I insist on receiving 100% off the order total (not every service will even give a choice), I (and every other non-affiliated shop) only gets 80% of what the customer paid but still must fill the order to the full amount. So the wire services pockets 20% off the order total PLUS the $10-$15 they charge the customer to place an order. For what? For relaying the order, that’s it! I’m just touching the surface on how dishonest and misleading the process has become.
What am I to do, you ask? My husband and I actually have a new project in the works! If you are a flower shop and would be interested in knowing first what our new project is, send me an email, or comment with your email address. We’re a few months out, but have exciting plans for making a transparent, honest, FREE option for educated shops and customers to send flowers outside of their hometown. Really. It’s going to be awesome.
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March 26th, 2011
or Borsages as we call them now in 2.5 year old flower design school at Ruby Bloom. Prom was 2 weeks ago and I’m still recovering. So much work! I think we’re catching on here a little. I only had one Mother ask me to nearly die and wire up a “extremely traditional” corsage. I am not a snotty florist, some people just have to dig.
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