thank you...

I love what i do!! Sometimes I get so scared that i won't make it and will have to do something else.... sit a cubicle, go back to the bank or some other organization and count hours when i can go home....

I like to have my small flower shop ( yes of course, i would like to be bigger and much more profitable, and be "the best florist in New York", but day to day stuff makes me so happy ). Everyday I have someone who is very happy and grateful for our flowers. It's so good to make someone happy even for a minute, to put a smile on somebody face....

Phone rings.
- Hi, may be you remember, i am the lady who came a month ago and bought few twigs from you for my friend who never gets out of the house anymore. (Of course I remember. She was that tiny older lady, who was getting quince for her sick friend)
- I'm just calling to say thank you, you made my friend very happy. she is looking forward to every new flower blossoming on those twigs....( great, i am glad that we made somebody happy)

then she called few minutes later:
- I keep thinking of you..

and then she proposes to contact Carnegie Hall and tell the name of the contact person.

I would love to work for Carnegie Hall!!! Would love to!
I want to make flowers for the stage which actually will look different from the funeral flowers. (Stage and coffin flowers are identical, ironically).

Nice tall vases with a prelude, fugue, sonata of flowers - white, yellow, green, red.... Build a structure of flowers - hanging crystals with orchids, standing shape of some sort or.....

and yes i want chair cover for the wedding salon :))

Wedding Salon

There is an event which takes place I think in many big cities, including New York of course, where wedding professionals (sounds kind of corny, but anyway) create a lavish event and supposedly many brides attend it.
It's called Wedding Salon. Actually for a bride I think it makes total sense - instead of running around and looking for florists, photographers etc - she just pays 50 bucks for entering and can meet all of the "wedding makers".

But do the brides come?

That's what stops me from just screaming "yes! i want to do, and who cares about crazy entering price" ( we pay almost a hundred times more). But from the other side - may the brides actually will come and may be i get more than few, to make it worthwhile.... Business vs. creativity ... not always together....

Still I am contemplating to participate in it. Just can't figure out what shall i do for it. From one side there is nothing better then lush white peonies, but from the other it's going to be inside, electric light, so i think everything will look yellow in the end. and I am not sure what kind of yellow - warm and sexy or dirty and old-ladyish...

Or shall i go with multi-colored extravaganza? Any advice?

just attaching peonies (not mine) and multi-coloredness....

every day I promise myself that i will write about my Alaric, and i never do. Things do happen and sometimes crazy, sometimes funny, sometimes plain beautiful.. and i never write, but may be now i will start :)

but for now:




we did an event in JFK for the Palm steakhouse... there were few palms as well.. and those flowers - i was terrified that the client is going to hate them ( i had no clue how to combine orange orchid with white color in a "modern way" )... but everybody was happy :)

We are very excited about the new year and the new opportunities. Despite the tough economic times and the fact that it fell on Sunday this year, Valentines Day was a success. We had deliveries on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and even Monday! It is good to know that people still love each other, despite the economy going down the drain.
Today we provided flowers for a corporate event at JFK, hopefully this will start a new and mutually beneficial relationship for us.
Please keep us in mind for your personal and business related flower needs ;)

We survived Valentine and now welcome spring!

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