Sympathy Gift Items

This pretty little piece went out to a funeral a few days ago. We love to incorporate gift items into any of our work, but its particularly sweet to have a keepsake after a service.

Moss Cross

Okay, so there's no moss on this piece but I loved the rhyming scheme! :)

This lovely cross is filled with beautiful creams and greens. Mostly pieces of various greenery, topped off with roses, wax and hydrangea pieces.

Memorial Flowers

Wow, we haven't slowed down yet. But I've got a couple minutes, so let me share a few of the memorial pieces that have gone out recently. People sometimes are uncertain how to use flowers for a memorial when there's no casket for the family flowers. But actually your options are more open.

This arrangement was inspired by a casket piece but was instead created for as a table piece. The urn was to sit in front of the table piece. I love the curly willow.


Here's a recent favorite among the crew. It's built so that the urn can sit inside the ring.


Here's a closer look... We just ooed and ahed over the color combination. All those soft greens? Gorgeous.

Heeeello gorgeous!

September 27, 2010

We've been swamped lately with sympathy work, which is why the blog's been a bit quiet. In the meantime, here's a few that we completed last week!

This combination is popular among us. I don't know of anyone working at the shop that doesn't love the all-white & green combo, particularly with gazers, roses and bells of ireland:



Also gorgeous, this knockout piece of yellow callas, roses & delphinium. I wish we had managed to snag a better picture of it.



And the matching heart to compliment the above piece:


Mm, those green hydrangeas... gorgeous, gorgeous!

Sympathy Work

August 21, 2010

We specialize in sympathy work, so people ask a lot if it's hard to work so closely and constantly with death. Actually, we consider it an honor to build your last piece for your loved one and we do our very best to make it just what you have in mind. But you don't necessarily have to have any ideas when you come in either. If you want something high style, we can do high style. If you want something out of the country, we can do country.

It is truly an honor to be of service to you at a time its needed most.

Here are some ideas from what we've been working on lately.

This small piece will later be placed on an urn for a memorial service. I love those orange roses.



And here is a casket. I'm sorry the picture is not better - we were rushing to get this one! Again, the roses here are just spectactular. Two perfect bi-colors.

Catching Up

July 27, 2010

We've been so busy with funerals recently that we haven't had much time to post. Sympathy work is our specialty and we always consider it a true honor to help the family realize their idea for memorial flowers.

Here's a peek at what we've been up to lately:

V-Day Aftermath

February 15th, 2010


Whew....the calm after the storm of Valentine's. We hope everyone else had as successful a holiday as we did and that your sweetie loved their flowers. Being on a Sunday it was a bit less chaotic than usual this year, but we're still glad for the opportunity to catch our breath.

I managed to capture one of the arrangements--this is one of Teleflora's products Love's Divine.



Sixteen red & white roses in a knockout Olympia vase with babies breath. I'm personally not always the biggest fan of babies breath, but it has its moments.

We also had some casket pieces going out during this time. This one was particularly beautiful:


Stargazer lilies, red roses & heather--you can't go wrong. This is also one of my favorite combinations. It's forever elegant.
(This also gives you a glance into our daily life at the shop--what a mess!)

Non-Traditional Easel Designs

We're bored. It's rainy.

So we were looking through our files and decided to share some of our more unique easel forms!






Forgive the fact that the floor's showing--it's not that great a picture. But this is one of my favorite sympathy arrangements we've made. Check out the blend of those dahlias & stargazers! I love its unusual form.









It's hard to go wrong when you're working with stargazers, roses & calla lilies (not to mention all-white is always incredibly elegant). Hopefully your eye follows through the pretty flow in the design-- ours does!






This one (left) is actually a Teleflora design, made in our shop, but being fall I thought the sunflowers were appropriate. You can just make out the stems showing through at the bottom of the design, as if it had just been picked. That curly willow is showing off too!






While we enjoy a lot of styles & areas of design, one of our biggest focuses is customized sympathy work. We will work with you on whatever your loved one would want- whether it be traditional, non-traditional, OU (or OSU!), just greenery, only flowers, etc... We'll keep showing some of our favorites to give you an idea. This is where our heart is at.

In other news, we've discovered this neat little project called 3/50 that focuses on ensuring our small businesses for the future. Be on the lookout for more info on that in the coming days!