Although still elegant and beautiful, flowers are just flowers if they aren’t assembled in a vase!
Flowers have always been a great way to celebrate a special occasion or holiday, but how much attention do you give to the vase you select. A decorative flower vasecan, and will add personality to an ordinary set of blooms. Flowers in a vase is how most blooms are displayed anyway - so you can’t go without one.
Flower shops will sell you the just the flowers if that’s all your budget can afford, but the vase can outlive the flowers and add to the decor of your home or office indefinetly and can be a keepsake to remind you of the flowers.
Calyx and Corrolla has a spectacular display of Vases & Cachepotsthat can turn any ordinary bouquet into a floral masterpiece with their decorative flower vases.
Here is sampling of vases from Calyx and Corrolla. Just click on the image for a larger view:
Vera Bradley Pitcher
Red & White Floral Pattern
Thalia Vase
Anjolie Floral Vase
If its about decorating then a simple fish bowl clear vase will not due.
If you need additional inspriation check out the Julie Mulligen PictherPerfect collection of arragments in decorative flower vases. She usually has more than the normal vase as she incorporates everyday themes from movies to sports to make flowers unique and inspriring.
Calyx Flowers is renowned for the exquisite vases and cachepots which they find to complement there luxury floral gifts.
Send one of these lovely vessels as a special gift, or treat yourself to a grand display for your next handpicked bouquet.
Browse and find some great decorative vase for your flowers and see how they make a difference with your home decor.
OrganicBouquet created plenty of online and television media buzz this past Valentines Day when their “World’s Tallest Roses” appeared on ABC’s “The View”.
The roses which can measure any where from 4 to 6 feet in height engendered so much curiousity for the company throughout the day Organic Bouquet was the #1 search on Google by the afternoon. The Views average audience size is 4.2 million viewers so it’s not hard to image.
OrganicBouquet is the nation’s leading supplier of eco-friendly flowers and gifts. Your purchase of these roses incidentally make a positive impact on the environment by removing harmful chemicals from our environment, in addition to helping farm workers in developing countries support their families.
“Each purchase helps provide education, medical care and jobs with livable wages for growers and artisans. In addition, certified sustainable farms employ over 60% female workers-providing job opportunities where there once was none.” according a release from the company.
Here is a video with the CEO Robert McLaughlin talking about OrganicBouquet’s eco-freindly gifts.
What are your impression of the roses? Would you buy them?
FloraFlora.com a newly launched floral and gifts site offers customers free flower delivery and no hidden fees.
Started by Shoebuy.com one of the largest retailers of bags, footwear and related apparel, floraflora.com aimes to redefine how the business of online floral shopping is done.
The online floral sector is a crowded space, and it’s a space dominated by a handful of well recognized brands in the industry. You can’t make an instrance in this crowded market and be heard without offering consumers something new and different.
While floraflora.com may not provide much difference when comes to well designed floral arrangments they will get the consumers attention where it matters most – the wallet!
Many startup businesses find great success and longevity when they are able to address consumer demand and provide a service not offered anywhere else. You’d be hard pressesd to find a online florist offering free flower delivery as a standard offering.
There are hundreds of flower and gifts sites online today and there is one thing that you can be certain of is delvery fees. Online florist may have the occasional offer here and there, but as whole free flower delivery is really not common among online florists.
A large number of online flower shops operate as wire services, where they take bouquet orders online charge a number of fees and have a local florist complete the delivery. The fees are usually in addition to the flower price – so a bouquet that’s $29.99 can easily cost $59.99 when the additional fees are added in, such as delivery fees and handling fees.
Now with the lauch of FloraFlora.com many online floral shops will have to re-evaluate their order and fullfillment process if the FloraFlora.com business model proves popular with consumers. Free flower delivery from FloraFlora.com may be the biggest development in the online floral market.
You don’t have to wait on long lines this coming Black Friday to get great deals on the items you want. Amazon.com is rolling out daily deals as early as Monday November 23, 2009.
Black Friday is easily the biggest shopping day of the year. Masses of people will gather at department store doors, across the country in the early hours of the morning eager to grab the limited supply of supper discount deals.
Some people may find a certain alure in getting up the day after Thanksgiving at the crack of dawn to possibly grab that coveted deal that only comes around once a year. It’s also a chance to get a jump start on the Christmas holiday shopping.
Yet Black Friday hasn’t been without it’s list of horror stories though, with of out-of-control mobs trampling people in a heated rush to get an advantage over other zealous shoppers. Some might even suggest Black Friday shopping has gotten completely out of hand in recent years because of the lack of security and order.
There’s probably no better security than shopping in the comfort of your own home. Amazon.com is hoping shoppers take the safe route this year by starting their Black Friday shopping early by visiting their site.
You can check out the Amazon.com Black Friday Page here @ www.amazon.com/blackfriday. The everyday deals starts Monday, November 23, 2009.
5 Tips on How to make the best out of Black friday?
1) Don’t spend more money then you have. Buy only things you really need.
2) Use cash if possible. You will not be getting a deal if you use credit cards. Think of the interest you will pay evey month.
3) Make sure the store has plenty of security. Just in case someone tries to snatch the last blue-ray player out of your hand.
4) Just don’t buy something because it’s cheap. Go for quality merchandise that will last and keep your receipt.
5) You can always shop online.
If you happen to travel often and enjoy racking up frequent flyer mile points as well send the occasional bouquet of flowers then this sweepstakes is for you.
FTD.com has teamed up with United Airlines to offer five prizes of one million miles each in the “Win a Million Miles Sweepstakes”.
To enter the contest is easy. All you have to do is visit www.ftd.com during the Sweepstakes Entry Period now through December 20, 2009, and sign-up for FTD Reminders.
To qualify for one sweepstakes entry, new participants registering for FTD Reminders for the first time must provide three “reminder” dates.
Exisiting FTD Reminder customers must add three new “reminder” dates to their account to be eligable. No purchase is necessary to enter to win, and a purchase will not improve your chance of winning.
Each of the five Grand Prize winners will receive 1, 000, 000 United Mileage Plus® Redeemable Miles from United Airlines in the form of a frequent flyer miles award. Approximate Retail Value of each Grand Prize is US $20, 000.
Five Grand Prize winners will be selected in a random drawing on or about December 21, 2009 from among all eligible entries received. The odds of winning depends on the total number of eligible entries received. You must be a U.S. resident 18 years or older to enter and you can only enter the sweepstakes once.
Every now then you come across some strange yet amazing pictures on the web. What these pictures do, is illustrate the vast creativity of the human mind and how if we challenge our thinking we can take the normal and mundane and make it much more.
Imagine applying the same principle to your own life or business and how you can reinvigerate excitement to what ordinarily would not get as much as a second glance. Images like this must reawaken something inside you, stir your sensibilities to the idea of limitless possibilities.
Halloween Flowers are a great way to celebrate this spooky time of year. From scary costumes, decorated homes with spooky effects, horror movie marathons and the hordes of trick-or-treaters knocking on your door, even flowers can play a roll in this festive holiday.
If you are having a Halloween party or celebrating a Halloween birthdays, or you just need to add some extra pizazz to your indoor Halloween decorations check out this spooky floral selection.
If you scare easily then maybe these aren’t for you. But if you love the Halloween season these are definitely fun and frightful.
Have you noticed! 1-800-flowers.com has revamped it’s website and logo. The new 1-800-flowers features not only a new brand image and redesign but the introduction of the newly intergrated brand of 1-800-baskets.com to complement the floral offerrings.
Martha Stewart was the most recent adjustment to 1-800-flowers.com about a year ago when they – 1-800-flowers and Martha Stewart floral – merged to create a co branded label for Ms. Stewarts designer floral arrangments.
As you can see here 1-800-flowers love to develop and connect consumers with a brand. In this case two recognizable brands.
Most online florist don’t rebrand their line of gift baskets from the floral bouquets but 1-800-flowers has taken the opportunity to actually distinguish its gift basket offerings to complement it’s ubiquitous brand name. It’s perhaps an ingenious idea to get cutomers to start thinking gift baskets as a seperate entity.
Gifts and gifts baskets is a large consumer market and what better way to establish yourself in the market but by getting consumers to connect with a brand name for that market. Walmart may sell toys but Toys R’ Us specializes in toys.
The redesign breaks down as many pieces of the total of what 1-800-flowers has to offer consumers. You still get the basic line up of floral bouquets with their steady price point.
Check it out for yourself and tell me what you think?
If you happen to travel often and enjoy racking up frequent flyer mile points as well send the occasional bouquet of flowers then this sweepstakes is for you.
As you can see here 1-800-flowers love to develop and connect consumers with a brand. In this case two recognizable brands.
