Fritillaria Imperialis
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Eye Candy :: fleurs trémolo by yukinobu fujino
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Wedding Wednesday :: Ivory Bridal Bouquets
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A Garden Rose Design Class
Garden Roses, always a favorite of mine. I’m constantly in awe of the array of colors they come in and the various shapes they offer…. and those puffy, ruffly petals! sigh…
In this class we will indulge our rose cravings with a lush selection of varieties grown by Alexandra Roses. We’ll start with a talk on the care & handling of these garden roses and will then move into a design session. Alicia will create a centerpiece featuring the roses and accent them with complementing flowers and foliages. Attendees will then create their own arrangements using as many stems as their hearts desire!
Hope you can join us for a lovely Sunday afternoon filled with these gorgeous flowers and good company!
Date: Sunday, April 30, 2017
Location: Floressence Design Studio, 5628 Airport Way S #240, Seattle, WA 98108
Time: 1pm to 3pm
Investment: $225.00 per person
Register: here
Designed by Breanna of Petite Abeille Design
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Introduction to the floral software Stem Counter
Things were looking up. Bianca was a proud momma of an infant just a few months old and she was weeks away from her biggest wedding season ever. Bianca’s wedding floral company in Australia had just secured a contract with an island resort to be their exclusive florist. That’s when two of her employees quit. In a matter of days, she moved from having the time to invest in accurate proposals and actually managing the shop – to personally being involved in everything from design to tear-down and feeling like all her work was coming apart. Then the quotes from her exclusive contract started piling up. She literally had 40 quotes on backorder – just staring at her like a post-party kitchen in the house of a dog-tired mom with a bad case of OCD. Bianca would wake up in the morning and just start to cry. She was so discouraged that she would sit at home and binge watch movies to avoid coming to grips with the time-consuming proposals. Finally, her sister and business partner Alex determined that something had to change. Alex came across several florist softwares but none of them saved enough time to be worth the investment. None, that is, until she came across the florist app Stemcounter. After a couple months of using the software, here’s the email I received from Bianca:
“I was about to say “you have no idea how this software has changed my life” but I’m sure you actually do! I was honestly losing my mind. I’m really looking forward to the next few months when everything is finally transitioned into this new system. I can’t believe how much better it is, I didn’t even think this was possible.”
Le Sorelle Florist
Bianca is an INCREDIBLE florist and still needed a little extra help to run her business efficiently. You’re probably not in the exact same boat as Bianca. However, if you’re a professional florist, you can relate to being up way past bed time putting together a wholesaler order and wondering why nobody had created a system that works how florists do.
In fact, that’s exactly why Stemcounter.com was created. Before we started our wedding florals company, my wife was a year into being the lead designer at a shop when ownership changed. She would come home in tears after dealing with new under-prepared management who thought owning a flower shop would be a breeze. So we started our St. Louis wedding florals company: Twisted Willow Design. We were growing but we had issues keeping up with the brides that wanted proposals. We normally told them to give us a week to get their proposal back. Around day 6 of one particular client, Rachael had just finished up spending an hour and a half on her proposal. Right as she was about to email the bride, we received an email saying that she had gone with someone else. Including consultation, Rachael had just spent 2.5 hours of her time…for nothing. Zilch. Nada. That was the moment we first knew that there had to be a better way to accurately and beautifully create wedding flower proposals.
At that point, I created an extremely well-formatted excel sheet for my wife to cost out designs. That was still taking way more time than we had in a day and we still had to stem count AGAIN when creating our shopping list and designer sheets. So, we created Stemcounter.com. Since then, we’ve seen our on-the-spot booking rate increase dramatically, we’ve tripled our average wedding size from $1,500 to $4,500, and we literally have our stem count done in the consultation. We’ve grown enough that we bought our own floral shop (you might have seen us on House Hunters!) and just a couple days ago booked our first $10,000+ wedding! (woot woot!) Obviously it takes more than a software to grow your business (it definitely doesn’t wash buckets for us), but having a software freed up our time from the nagging stuff that can totally be automated and allowed us to focus on the big stuff that’s required to function as a professional florist.
Twisted Willow Floral Design
Heather Roth Fine Art Photography
So, what exactly is Stemcounter.com? It’s a floral design software created specifically for professional florists that allows you to do stem counts extremely fast, accurately price out your weddings, book more brides, and even finally delegate some critical tasks to employees. No more worries that someone is going to do the math wrong on your wholesaler order or book a wedding with a -17% profit margin.
It’s humbling to hear that we’re the highest rated floral software online but we love making florists lives easier because we’re florists ourselves. Here are some of the ways that stem counter will make your weddings / events easier:
- Automated stem counting with your own floral library.
- Create your entire proposal (WITH stem count) from a single screen. You see your tools. Your clients only see a beautiful finished proposal.
- Mobile-friendly proposal for your clients to see a beautiful proposal and full-resolution photos from their desktop, iPad, or mobile phone.
- Clients can view, sign, and pay from the same screen.
- Quickbooks Integration to keep your accountant happier than a trip to a tax loophole conference.
- Add multiple photos on every line item.
- Multiple recipes on each item for King Tables or triplets.
- Drag and Drop photos from Pinterest.
- Have all of your weddings and events organized in a single place.
- Combine multiple event shopping lists together in seconds
Interested in seeing if the software is right for you? You can start immediately and we have an industry-best 60 day money back guarantee.
If you prefer a personalized demo to see how it would work with your company before you jump in (and even get a discount), here’s a link to our demo:
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P.S. You’d also love our blog that focuses on The Business of Flowers, where we give away advice on cool topics from everything like what makes an awesome florist logo to great wedding florists websites and give-a-ways like a free wedding florist contract template.
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World Floral Expo – Las Vegas!
HPP Exhibitions’ 2017 international flower trade show World Floral Expo (WFE) will be coming to Las Vegas, Nevada on March 22-24, 2017. Over 90 floral businesses will be exhibiting at the show!
The Pavilions at World Market
Center – Pavilion 2
205 West Symphony Park Ave
Las Vegas, NV 89106
I’ll be at the show hanging out at the Garden Roses Direct booth with Florabundance, come say Hi! if you come to the show!! You all know how much I love roses – and I’m about to be surrounded with lots of these beauties!!
Pink Garden Roses
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Wedding Wednesday :: Ceremony Backdrops
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Eye Candy :: Ken Marten
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Flirty Fleurs’– Dahlia Tubers for Sale!
If you happen to follow my flower adventures on Instagram and/or Facebook surely this past summer you witnessed quite a few photos taken in my Dahlia Patch, the name I coined my ever growing Dahlia garden.
I started growing dahlias my first summer (2014) at our new house in Washington. They grew nicely and I learned how to divide and store them that winter. 2015 came along and due to the dividing I had MORE dahlias to plant. Well, history repeated itself and I divided and stored dahlias again last winter. What started as 50 tubers in 2014 turned into 400 tubers for 2016. AND then there is this current round, where those 400 tubers have been divided into … thousands. BTW I tell Vivian at Everyday Flowers that she is too good of a teacher as she is the one who taught me how to divide! She gets a big kick out of my ever expanding dahlia tuber collection.
So that brings us to the point of THIS BLOG POST.
I have A LOT of Dahlias for the upcoming season and for the first time ever I am looking to sell off some tubers. (Last year I did pack some up and send off to friends in California, Colorado, and Nebraska so I could share the love).
Sooooo….. I have 4 Varieties up for Sale:
Rebecca Lynn Dahlia Tubers – For Sale
Bride To Be Dahlias – For Sale
Alloway Candy Dahlias – For Sale
Mero Star Dahlias – For SaleGet your orders in now to reserve the tubers. I will be shipping them out in the spring once the weather allows for shipping across the country.
Please email me at info@flirtyfleurs.com if you have any questions at all or need help placing an order – I am more than happy to help!!
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FLWR SHOP!
Recently I received a note from Andrew at Nashville’s Own as he had filmed a segment at FLWR SHOP and felt we would find the short film inspiring and he is correct, I did find it inspiring. So now we will share it with all of you!
From Andrew-
I have always had a difficult time choosing flowers for the variety of occasions I would need a bouquet or an arrangement. But despite being able to fully articulate my reasons, I have always admired the beauty of flowers. Because of this, I was incredibly excited to create a video on the art of floral design.
Alex and Quinn of FLWR SHOP in east Nashville have an incredible gift for creating unique, exquisite floral arrangements for both the informed and uninformed consumers. My first day in the shop, I was fortunate enough to witness their impressive process of taking a vague sentiment and a couple minor boundaries, and turning that into a fully realized and breathtaking creation. Quinn has a unique gift for understanding what customers are looking for, and Alex has the skill to breathe life and form into those orders in the form of natural, floral beauty.
In addition, these two share an air of joy and excitement for what they are doing, and have an attitude of loving kindness towards anyone who walks in through their door. Each visitor is welcome and treated with familial hospitality.
I wish that I could say that this shoot ended with a final test where I was blind folded, handed the tools to make an arrangement, and I did such a great job that all who looked at my arrangement went blind because it’s perfection was next to Godliness, but unfortunately it did not: I walked away, still unable to fully wrap my head around floral design. However, because of Alex and Quinn’s genuine joy for this art of taking already existing beauty and creating something even more life-giving with it, I walked away with an appreciation for the natural beauty of the world and the importance of reminding people of that beauty.
Make sure to visit their website and follow them on instagram to stay up to date on all their magnificent work.
You can follow more of Andrew’s work at Nashville’s Own on Facebook & Instagram.
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Wedding Wednesday :: Elevated Centerpieces
Bridal Blooms of Fort Worth | Rebecca Ellison Photography
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Garden Roses Direct
The Garden Roses Direct booth at the recent World Floral Expo which took place in Las Vegas. Check out all the beautiful Alexandra Farm Garden Rose varieties now available thru GardenRosesDirect.com
Garden Roses Direct booth at World Floral Show in Las Vegas
Ashley at the Garden Roses Direct Booth
Ashley Garden Roses
David Austin’s Constance
David Austin’s Juliet
Patience by David Austin
Patience by David Austin
Princess Aiko
Romantic Antike
White O’Hara
White O’Hara
Top – Kiera
Right – Constance
Left – Pink O’hara
Top – Princess Aiko
Right – Romantic Antike
Left – David Austin Juliet
Top – Pink O’Hara
Right – Ashley
Left – White O’Hara
Top – Tess
Right – Princess Kishi
Left – Capability
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Flowers on the Move
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Wedding Wednesday :: Lovely Lilac Bouquets
Botanic Art | Ashley Ludaescher
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Workshop :: A Garden Rose Study
Garden Roses, always a favorite of mine. I’m constantly in awe of the array of colors they come in and the various shapes they offer…. and those puffy, ruffly petals! sigh…
In this class we will indulge our rose cravings with a lush selection of varieties grown by Alexandra Roses. We’ll start with a talk on the care & handling of these garden roses and will then move into a design session. Alicia will create a centerpiece featuring the roses and accent them with complementing flowers and foliages. Attendees will then create their own arrangements using as many stems as their hearts desire!
Hope you can join us for a lovely Sunday afternoon filled with these gorgeous flowers and good company!
DATE AND TIME
Sun, April 30, 2017
1:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
LOCATION
Floressence Design Studio
5628 Airport Way S #240
Seattle, WA 98108
REGISTER
Purchase Ticket
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The Many Colors of Muscari
Muscari Paradoxum
Muscari Latifolium
Muscari Aucheri Dark Eyes
Muscari Ocean Magic
Muscari Cupido
Muscari Pink Sunrise
Muscari White Magic
Muscari Album
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Floral Arrangements featuring Muscari
Designer Unknown
Designer Unknown
Designer Unknown
Designer Unknown
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Wedding Wednesday :: Sweet Pea Bouquets
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Pretty Peonies!
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Online Instagram Class for Floral Designers
I’m excited to announce our next online class specifically for Floral Designers looking to increase the online presence of their Floral Design Business. This class will focus on working with Instagram.
This e-course will be held online via a private, password protected online space. This is a one week long class. I will be posting lessons daily for the 5 days – April 24 thru 28, 2017. You’ll learn how to build your presence on instagram which will lead to attracting more clients. The class notes will remain active on the website for one additional week, ending on May 5, 2017.
The lessons will be posted in the morning hours each day, please keep in mind that I am located in Washington State and will be posting Pacific Standard Time. You may log in at your leisure to review the lessons, there is not a set time as we will have students in the class from around the world.
Class Starts: April 24, 2017
Class Ends: April 28, 2017
Investment: $89
Ready? Sign Up Here:
FAQs:
*There will be no refunds or transfers once you have registered & paid for this class.
*Information from this class will not be shared with others outside of this class. Immediate cancellation of your membership will be enforced if you are caught distributing information.
*As the saying goes “what you put into it, is what you get out of it”, full participation is the best way to gain the most success possible.
Questions? Email Alicia
Class Begins Monday, April 24, 2017. Upon registration you will be emailed a password to access the class.
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