Well - Happy Canada Day!!

We're open today....but I know some places aren't - apparantly the merchants in Exeter are closing tomorrow - so we follow suit.

Last weekend went phenomenally!! The Bellamere wedding with the wine turned out amazing!! The staff there while we were setting up were just in 'awe' of the funky centrepieces and things we did.....they'd never seen anything like that before!

Everything else went great....the pictures are coming - we had some camera issues this weekend, so I've got a few, but my staff have pictures on all of their cameras as well. Give us some time - they're coming!

So this upcoming weekend is Melissa's wedding at Bellamere Winery in London. She let me do whatever I wanted ( I LOVE it!!) So we're putting orange, coral and lime green and pink with her lipstick red dresses. It's going to be stunning - I can't wait to do her bouquets.

We've been so crazy busy lately...we can all take a breather here - now that grads, proms, etc. have wrapped up for the spring.

What's new?? Well - I've decided to change the front of the store, I want to take the steps out of the front....I'm sick of it. If you see me out front prying at them with a cro-bar, don't be shocked.

I'm doing paperwork today, it keeps piling up on my desk.

We also received 7 SKIDS of Christmas stuff this past week - I ordered 45 - 7.5' and 15 - 9' Christmas trees in. I've never done this before - but people ask here ALL the time if we can get them a tree, just because they're so good looking compared to the cheaper ones at the big-box stores. So....I ordered a huge amount of them, so I got a REALLY good deal - I'll let you know when we get them unpacked. We're going to start selling them right away, and we're talking GOOD deal. They're prelit trees - regularly $850 - We're going to be selling them for like $399 - they are the nicest, highest quality trees available - I scouted the entire gift show for them.

Anyways.... back to work - see you next week - Have a great Canada Day tomorrow!!

Well....another week down....so where is June?? I can't believe this is the last week of the month! It drives me crazy how fast time flies!
I've included pictures of Kelly's bouquets from last weekend - and I actually saw some photos of them on Facebook with the girls and the dresses...they looked awesome! For any of you who are brides....PLEASE send me photos of the bouquets and the bridesmaids and yourself afterwards that your photographer takes. A photographer is something I am not. The professional pictures always look so much better than the ones I take.

This week is going to be absolute insanity. I always try to make myself scarce on Mondays, because if I don't, I'd be here 7 days a week.
Tomorrow I've got appointments all day, I've got artificial custom work that's calling my name, and I have Wednesday to prep for the 3 big weddings we're doing this weekend....which will occupy all of my time on Thursday & Friday.

The weddings this weekend are going to be great!!
Andrea's is at Bellamere Winery in London.....she was very open to letting me use my endless creativity. We're going with a really rustic/natural wine theme to compliment the whole place. The centrepieces are going to be interesting 'collages' of wine bottles, moss, bark, river rocks, dried pods, and orchids.....we're going to have big tubs of moss and wine bottles with tall James Storey orchids coming out the top of the bottles....with magnolia leaves, rusty calla lilies, mokara orchids in red and gold....OMG - it's going to be gorgeous
Lindsay's wedding is at Hessenland, her dresses are the most unique shade of hmmm I could call it maybe an antique powdered turquoisey blue? not sure what to call it, but it's gorgeous, I've never seen it before. Her flowers are all beautiful creme garden flowers. SO classy....it's going to be so elegant and rich looking - completely different than the one listed above. Her centrepieces and linens coordinate beautifully...I can't wait to see it all together.
Patti's wedding is a backyard tent wedding in the country outside of Arva....she and her girls are carrying gerbra and rose bouquets......simple and fun!!
Needless to say, they all require setup saturday morning, I'll be running the roads like crazy!

As a plus....we're short staffed this week with people taking holidays...so if you're looking for me, whether it be 8am or 2am......you'll find me here!! LOL
Personally.....I'm glad the sun's shining, things are too dull when it rains. I'm happy when I'm busy - so no complaints. Graduation corsages and flowers have been flying lately.
I looked at my calendar.....and I've discovered that every weekend from now until the 1st of October, I have showers, bbq's, weddings, holidays, gift shows....etc.....every weekend.
No wonder time goes so quickly......
For you Christmas lovers.....my first shipment of like 30 boxes came in last week....it's priced and in the basement, I have no further intentions of even peeking into the boxes for at least a month or so. It will soon come overflowing in my backdoor....and I'll have no choice.
Merry Christmas!!

The start

Well.......I'm blogging. A couple of years ago I don't think I even knew what a blog was.

Apparantly so I hear from people......my job is quite interesting, so I've decided to give everyone an inside scoop into what I'm doing, the new things going on here at the store, and the update of the latest jobs we've done in this BUSY wedding season I've got going on this summer.

This is the first post....and I'm hoping to keep this up weekly - through the summer anyways, people always want to see the wedding flowers we're doing. If you know me.....then haha - we'll see if I can keep this up!

Anyways!! Last weekend - 4 weddings!! busy day. We had 2 in London, 1 in Exeter, and 1 in Lucan. They were all gorgeous - mostly people who let me do whatever I wanted - which ALWAYS turns out to be great! This weekend is Kelly Thiel's wedding in Zurich - it's going to be beautiful!! Purples and whites, peonies freesia etc......gorgeous!

I have a file in my office, where each weekend when I get the weddings done, I staple each file together and put in my "weddings completed 2008" file. It feels good...when I've been working on all of these (on paper anyways) for so long, to be able to actually do the work and then have it completed - successfully. Lately though - we're booking as many new as I've been putting in my "done" file!

Each week, I'm getting as many new last-minute bookings for this summer as I finish!

It's great though - I love doing wedding flowers for girls.....it's their big day - everything's gotta be perfect!

Personally....on my end - there's not a whole lot new with me. My Isabelle will be 15 months on July 1...and just started walking last week. LOOK OUT! she's all over and into everything. She's a goer...but considering I was doing 80-90 hours a week before she was born - what can I expect right?

For a laugh.......Exeter is participating in "Communities in Bloom" this year, so I want to make sure that (since I own the flowershop in town) that our building looks really nice. I also live upstairs now, so out and around the store is like my backyard anyways. I went to Sunrise Greenhouse (they have the greatest stuff) and bought some beautiful hanging baskets, and plants to do our window boxes...etc - and it's fabulous. Up above the store in the front, there's 2 window boxes on the windows of Peter and Vicki's apartment. I found the greatest pre-made planters of annuals to fit right in the boxes....and I thought "Oh yeah!! this is great - I know they don't have screens in the windows...they'll pop right in!" Yes - there are no screens....but there are METAL BARS across the window!! I don't know what's wrong with my head - how could I forget the enormous ironwork of metal across the windows that only a hand can fit through. So - long story short - there's lovely window boxes here on the back porch - if you know someone with a boom truck, that would be great.
Above are the pics from last weekends weddings.....see you next week!