Thursday, September 20, 2012

Birthdays and Flowers


With families chasing their careers all over the country and beyond, it’s often difficult to get to know the people we share most of our genes with. All of a sudden a birthday is around the corner,  a present needs to be found.  

You are in another corner of the town or in another part of the world.What now?
Birthdays might well come but once a year, but as far as celebrating interests  are concerned, you can safely say that about one evening a year is dedicated to it – And how do we choose to spend this day of our calendar year? Shopping, fretting, making unfeasible family dinner  arrangements and getting grumpy about the ridiculousness of it all. Then someone forgets us!!
It’s probably one of the few times of year when family get to meet and catch up – especially now families are scattered all over the country. Any friction comes from the delicacies of fitting one evening a year for your close friend or family. And you know you cannot make it there to celebrate with them or him.

And therein lies the problem. We spend so little time with our immediate families and so called close friends –that we might sometimes feel like we don’t know them well enough to select an appropriate Birthday gift.

So when it comes to actually remembering the birthday what happens? We call up, perhaps send an sms and hum and haw abut why its not possible to attend the birthday dinner. Its not exactly the most fitting way to show your deep regard for someone who has just sent you invited you even if it is out of the blue .
Become personable – get personal

Fortunately there’s a great way to send true wishes and yet not be there in person.  It’s the personalized gift  of flowers delivered. A gorgeous bouquet of exotic florals– and if you’ve got an internet connection you can do it in a jiffy.

Browsing floral websites such as http://www.spring-blossoms.com  isn’t just a way of satisfying the awkward sms you have to send. It’s a wealth of ideas that you can freely claim as your own, even though it’s the result of the company’s vivid imagination of exotic designs with flowers. The types of things that you never even knew existed and certainly can’t be found in the shopping mall are right there in front of you, waiting to be snapped up by You!!

And after a few minutes on the site you’ll start to realise that you could actually satisfy someone close to you with Floral gifts you just know they’d love: a cup of exotic flowers ;an orange water experience; … anything, in fact, to have them feel you care so much and your lack of attendance at that birthday dinner is an experience you have truly regretted not attending.



Thursday, September 6, 2012

Flower in a Soup


Below is my idea of creating a different look to this Ginger flower.
Take a couple of its large petals, find a matching soup bowl and saucer.
You can also use the whole flower.
And make a display of one single flower!!
Add a Drecena coloured leaf for effect as a soup spoon.

This is the Torch Ginger. Its a tropical flower, rather large and can also be used as a single flowers to liven up any space.





For lots of creative flower arrangements to send across Mumbai, India go to:  Spring Blossoms

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Lime N Lemon Creative ideas




A simple change to your kitchen table.....the bowl of fruit.....is passe!!
  • Take a small glass bowl, add a block of "floral sponge" soaked with water. ( you can get floral sponge from your local Florist)
  • I have added green orchids, but you can add any flowers to the sponge, even lovely greens from your garden or herbs from your kitchen window; anything that suits your colour scheme.
  • Take wooden toothpicks and thrust them into Lime (green) and Lemons (yellow) at the base.
  • Push the other end of the toothpick into the floral sponge exactly where you want to place the lemon or lime.
  • Work the glass container all around with flowers // foliage // lime // lemon.
THIS ARRANGEMENT LOOKS GOOD AND HAS THE ADDED FRAGRANCE OF THE SUBTLE AROMA OF LIME AND LEMON.