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The Thanksgiving holdiay is just around the corner. With Teleflora you can add a touch of elegance to your dinner table with a world famous Lenox bone china accented with 24k gold, along with Lenox flatware and crystal stemware by entering in the Teleflora’s Gather Round the Table Sweepstakes.

There will be 10 grand-prize winners that will be chosen to receive Lenox Fruitiffero China including a 4-piece place setting for twelve, Stemware for twelve and Flatware for twelve. Each grand prize is worth a whopping $3,000.  

In addition, 100 first-prize winners will receive a Thanksgiving Platter worth $200. The best part is that there is no purchase necessary to enter the contest.

If your Thanksgiving diner table  in the past has been a little less than extraordinary give your self a chance to dine in style. If the turkey diner doen’t leave the best impression at least the china set will.

Teleflora also has a Thanksgiving centerpiece to boot that comes with a ceramic sauce boat keepsake, that is a sculpted leaf design, FDA-approved for food.

To enter the Gather Round the Table Sweepstakes you need to be a resident of the US and Canada aged 18 and above. Enter the sweepstakes once before December 11, 2009.

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American author, poet, playwright L.Frank Baum started the Oz book series in 1900 with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It quickly became one of the most popular books ever out of the series. After MGM bought the rights to make The Wizard of Oz in 1937, the movie was an instant success after its release in 1939.

The Wizard of Oz  remains a classic film that has thrived for several decades. It’s a timeless theatrical performace that has entertained the young and old a like.

In conjunction with a September 29 release of The Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary 2-Disc Special Edition) Teleflora, a  leading flower wire service, has created an empressive keepsake gift, The Wizard of Oz Bouquet. The new Teleflora arrangement celebrates the release of the 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition of the film.

There remians a large fan base of Oz enthusiast with hundreds of personal web sites dedicated to everthing Oz. Warner Bros. Entertainment has for the past year been celebrating the 70th anniversary The Wizard of Oz, with a number of spectacular events around the world.

Teleflora’s The Wizard of Oz Bouquet is a hand-painted sculpture of the  characters, the Lion, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Dorothy and little Toto, skipping down the yellow brick road.  

The floral arrangement features the sweet smells of button-spray chrysanthemums, roses and alstroemeria, all in a yellow shade to highlight the bright future ahead. The bouquet is now only available for pre-order only until September 21st, 2009 at Teleflora.

If you love the timeless story of The Wizard of Oz you might like this  collectible.

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Teleflora is one of the leading floral services and products company in the world with a network of florist in the thousands. They have taken this network and spearheded a campaign to bring smiles to the thousands of people young and old who need it the most.

The cause which has been around since 2003 and dubbed the Make Someone Smile(R) Week is the floral industry’s leading benevolent project.

Sponsored by Teleflora thousands of Teleflora member florists and community volunteers will help to deliver bouquets in the company’s keepsake Be Happy(R) Mugs to those most in need of a smile – such as hospital patients, senior citizens living in nursing homes and assisted living homes and recipients of Meals-on-Wheels programs. The program will run from Sunday, July 19 through Saturday, July 25.

The program has had measurable success over the last couple of years. The first year, over 8,000 arrangements were delivered throughout North America. The number rose to 17,000 arrangements in the next year.

They couldn’t accomplish this however without there national network of florist who work with wholesalers and growers to secure flower donations while Teleflora donates all of the keepsake Be Happy® mugs.

For more information on Teleflora’s Make Someone Smile(R) Week, and how you can get involved, please visit http://www.teleflora.com/makesomeonesmile or call 310.966.8328.

As a side note this isn’t the only cause Teleflora supports. They have also partnered with the Breast Canser Research Center to offer a Charity Bouquets doanting 15% of the cost of the bouquet to research and also the Stand Up to Cancer foundation donating 20% when you order the Stand up to Cancer bouquet.

No florist is perfect and often consumers get ticked off when they order flowers and don’t get the flowers when they expected. We expect the florist to correct the problem and even offer a little concession, which is usually in order. Teleflora may even be guilty of this at times yet they are willing to lend there brand name and reputation to social causes for the common good.

Maybe not all florist are purely there just to process your order. What do you think?

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As a kid I always appreciated balloons no matter what color, shape, or size. Besides feverishly swatting them in the air as most kids generally do – providing hours of endless fun, or making water ballons there wasn’t much to do with them after that. You had to be careful not to play to rough or POW! bye-bye ballon.

But balloons like other toys have evolved and can now be mutated into different shapes and caricatures. I just love those creative balloon twisters you run into sometimes at the carnival or restaurant. I’m always amazed at how easy they are able to twist a balloon into a dog or a butterfly. I ran across this balloon twister demonstrating how to make a flower. Maybe you can try it!
 

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Did anyone notice that December 12 was National Poinsettia Day? The day was declared in honor of the death of Joel Roberts Poinsett on December 12, 1851 by an Act of Congress.  How can we overlook the man who introduced us to what is now the most popular flower during Christmas.

Joel Roberts Poinsett was born on March 2nd, 1779 in Charleston, South Carolina. As a young person he was well educated, fluent in many languages (French, Spanish, Italian, and German) and studied medicine, law, and military science. Poinsett also traveled extensively to Europe and Asia as a young man.

Poinsett served the U.S. in numerous capacities from diplomat to being a member of U.S. House of Representatives.  He was appointed as the first United States Ambassador to Mexico from 1825 – 1829 by President Madison. It was during this time that he visited the area of southern Mexico called Taxco del Alarcon and discovered what was later to become known as the poinsettia. (The Aztecs referred to the winter-blooming plant as cuetlaxochitl; its Latin name is Euphorbia pulcherrima or “the most beautiful Euphorbia.”)

Poinsett, also an avid amateur botanist, sent samples of the plant home to the States and by 1836 the plant was most widely known as the “poinsettia.”

Today poinsettias represent over 85 percent of the potted plant sales during the holiday season. While California is the top poinsettia producing state, poinsettias are commercially grown in all 50 states. If you can’t find a real poinsettia plant there are many retail outlets that sale faux poinsettias.

Joel has introduced us to more than just a colorful plant, but a traditional holiday decorative symbol. And over the holidays the floral industry generates over $220 million dollars during the holiday season.

I’m not sure what else can be done on National Poinsettia Day other than buy poinsettias. Is anyone even paying attention?

Of course there is an NCCA Bowl game in San Diego named the Poinsettia Bowl. But shouldn’t they at least play that on Dec 12?

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Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Thanksgiving dinner is done in the evening, usually as a gathering of friends and/or family. It’s an occassion where we not only plan the dinner menu but the design and style of the dinner table.

Making your Thanksgiving dinner table look elegant and stylish may only take a simple autum inspired centerpiece. Here are some fabulous centerpieces that are definitely worth checking out,  especially if you’re looking to brighten-up your Thanksgiving dinner table!

FTD Centerpieces

1-800-flowers Centerpieces

Teleflora Centerpieces

Here are a few tips from AboutFlowers to help decorate your dinner table:

• Accessorize a large table by placing a long, narrow centerpiece in the center of the table. Add a few smaller accent pieces or candles on each side of the arrangement for an added effect.
• Scatter colorful fall leaves, flowers and votive candles along the center of your dining table.
• Decorate small desserts with flowers or make an ice ring with flowers to chill champagne or wine.
• Ask your florist to design the arrangements for your buffet table on several different levels to keep the eye flowing all along the table.
• Place a garland of fruit, flowers and fall foliage over your front door.

Some recomended flowers for Thanksgiving:

Chrysanthemums, bittersweet, gerbera daisies, roses, carnations, alstroemeria, lilies, wheat, solidago, monte casino, marigolds.

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If you fancy sending flowers but don’t necessary like going through the process of ordering flowers then put you flower order on auto-pilot.  You order once and have your flowers delivered monthly. 

Proflowers.com, an online flower shop has 3 tier delivery system where you can choose to send flowers for 3, 6 or 12 months.  Every month their is a different arrangement of seasonally selected bouquets like fragrant Oriental lilies in assorted colors, three dozen purple carnations to a mix of orange roses and more. See below for 3 Months of Flowers example.

This automatic floral delivery system is akin to the “Set it and Forget it” line made very popular by inventor Ron Ropeil from his Showtime Rotisserie infomercials. In this case there is no cooking involved. The end results id not a tender pot roast but a tender heart for the intended recipient.

This monthly auto ordering can be an assortment of colorful roses delivered monthly, an assortment of different flowers or a range of plants. The only thing about this system is the cost is all up front. If you usually spend between $30-$40 for one bouquet just multiply that by the number of months you might want.

If you are committed to making someones day for several months than you can just order, sit back and let the flowers do the rest. 

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There are so many great services available online today to express love, happiness, or to celebrate a special occasion. Flower shops are perfect for commemorating such occasions since they usually have floral arrangements designed especially for such events and moments.

Expressing your sentiments with flowers is easier than ever with the crowd of online flower shops to choose from. If you have access to a computer you can send floral bouquets to someone hundreds of miles away or just down the street in a matter of minutes.

What’s even better then the easy access convenience of buying flowers online is that you can even compliment your flower purchase with an online ecard or virtual card for FREE.

Ecards are electronic greeting cards that you send online through email using a web based delivery service. There are thousands of ecards for hundreds of different occasions that you can customize with your own personal message and even add music.

To send an ecard or simply explore the variety of ecards available click here. 

When it comes to buying flowers online convenience is king and a great deal in the form of coupons or discount deals makes shopping for flowers a little easier. Combine that with a Free service like sending an ecard is icing on the cake.

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