FYI

in totally unrelated flower news, i would like to remind you all how awesome annie is. 

favorite flower, today i pick you!

as a florist I often get asked what my favorite flower is.  for those who can't name more then 10 flowers without straining the brain this might seem like a simple question, for them its a 1 in 10 choice, maybe a rose, or a gerbera daisy, possibly a tulip. 

i for the life of me have never been able to answer this question, sometimes its something because of the way its petals bend, sometimes i chose a different flowers because of the way it looks when its dead, or the way its foliage feels between my fingers. i could list "favorite" flowers for days on end.  so i've decided to add this feature to my blog. the "favorite flower, today i pick you!" (yes, it changes daily, sometimes by the minute). 

today. it's mimosa. 

1. The Scent of Stars, 2. Alberello di mimosa, 3. Mira que eres Mimosa (IMG_8308b.jpg), 4. omaggio a tutte le Donne., 5. Acacia baileyana, 6. mimosa, 7. The Time for Yellow, 8. Mimosa, 9. mimosa

if i could only say one thing about mimosa, it would be that it never fails to make me smile. its smells like cotton candy and feels like tiny tiny cotton balls. my friend allyson once told me her favorite trait of mine is that without knowing it i put things up to my lips to feel how soft they are, and that it made her happy to watch me do so. i never noticed i did that until i found myself dragging a sprig of broken mimosa across my lips. its foliage is feather shaped, and is the softest sage green, sometimes even silver. mimosa also makes any other flower sing, mixing it with others is like magic, it can turn the ordinary into something extra special.  so today, mimosa...you are my favorite flower. 

hi, its been a little while...and i'm not super talkative tonight, so i'll just leave you with some shots of some things going on in the shop.

(for an event at our local library)

(for our areas chamber of commerce)

(my friend stephanie had another baby, so i made her some prettys)

ok thats enough...i'm off to enjoy tonights PERFECT weather...i'm thinking of a bowl of ice cream on the porch might hit the spot. 

i can feel it...

...spring is right the corner. i can feel it in my bones, actually more like on my toes because i'm officially back in flip-flops. ok fine, maybe its a little early for bare feet, but my left pinky toe is happy to see the sun, it told me so. 

so for those not from this fantastic part of the country i'll explain what "spring" means. it means mud, its actually a well known fact that new england has 5 seasons. winter, mud, spring, summer and fall. we get so much snow that the melting process just wreaks havoc on everything... (the road leading up to my friend emilie's house...fun huh?)

my delivery van has notoriously been stuck in a number of driveways, desperately spinning its tires in the mud. so for those who are surrounded by nice paved roads...i'm officially telling you now that i'm jealous. 

but with spring, brings happy flowers, the start to local product (pussy willow galore!) and the ability to start gathering moss for the ever so popular terrariums...

so with all that happy stuff said about spring, its now pouring rain, and grey outside. so much for warm toes.....lame. 

a little gifty to you...from me

i'm feeling like everybody needs flowers right now. it seems like everybody needs something pretty to make them smile at this very moment in time. so please...come in, pick whatever your little heart desires, and leave, with a smile. (FYI: if you click the image it will allow you to print it out larger...) hope to see you all soon!

today i love these...

today its raining...as if you couldnt tell from my color pallet of my most recent flickr favorites. 

1. Moss, 2. vanity detail, 3. Hedgehogs, 4. The Scent of Stars, 5. Vintage Sequins, 6. Primi germogli in fiore, 7. Untitled, 8. Salamander - Louisville, 2005, 9. Untitled, 10. Untitled, 11. Day of the Tentacles, 12. , 13. My mother made my rabbit costume. Talented, huh?, 14. anise in the setting sun, 15. 30 Days : 30, 16. Nanny & the Pig

click the photo to make it bigger!!

just a little gifty for a lady named teri.

hey teri in jacksonville florida...these are for you :)

glamour shots...

i hear on a daily basis how awesome my job is...its true, it pretty much rules at life, but there is one aspect to the job which i am not so in love with. 

my hands.

granted the photo above just shows a tiny bit of what i'm about to talk about...florist hands are notoriously nasty. i have a callus on my thumb from holding a knife, dirt ground into the cracks on my fingers, that no matter how hard i scrub just wont go away. i obviously cant wear nail polish, because it peels within a matter of hours, and god forbid i grow my nails...nobody wants to look like they have a years worth of dirt under their nails! the nail on my right index finger is a lovely shade of green, and the skin around my nails peels as if i'm a snake shedding its skin. oh, and don't get me started on the small cuts and scars i have up and down my arms. thorns are mean. so as a really good example of the horror to which i speak, i took a picture of my hands after valentines day. 

gross huh? 

but the one thing i think of when i look at my hands is that they make people happy. cheesy? ohhh hell yeah! but yeah...its true.

 

The dreaded V-day...

so...its over. as i wrote order after order and quickly abbreviated many card messages i soon found myself giggling at what i was writing...."happy v.d." you know a holiday should be eliminated when the abbreviation congratulates you on your new sexually transmitted disease. for you non-florist types valentines day is a day where people give you happy chocolates and things shaped like cutesie hearts, even if you're single, i've heard its a very happy day, filled with all sorts of that love stuff...but for us its a day when we wake up and wish that we could hide in the bedroom closet until its over.

so, because i am insane...i also decided to go ahead and do a wedding along with all the normal craziness. brenda and jeff were funny, quirky, and wanted something colorful and different so i signed myself up for it knowing that i was doing something not many florists would even think twice about doing.

maybe its because i am a machine. i even have metal parts...*

brenda's bouquet was a mix of sweetpea, lots and lots of sweet pea, anemone, posy callas, tulips, ranunculus, lisianthus, phlox and cymbidium orchids. i love a huge mix of things and the texture it produces when all is said and done. i remember at one point walking around holding her bouquet with my face right in it because mannnnn did it smell good.




everything else was bright, very very very bright.

so needless to say, i'm tired...and i'm happy that its over. and now i have a quiet day of catching up on my wedding quotes. (if you have yet to receive one from me...i not officially promise you its one its way!) 

*totally a lie, i wrote it for dramatic effect