Pictures from a Beautiful Wedding

This was one of our fav weddings this year. A beautiful time of year for flowers and a stunning bride with fantastic taste. You can't beat that!!!

Here are a few photos to get your started. More to come as we get them..

Have a great week!!!!!

Christmas Terrariums

Have we mentioned that we love terrariums around here?
Any sort of terrarium will do. Living, non-living, moss, ornament, mini, air, water, fresh flower, hanging......I can go on and on.
This year, for the first time, Jennifer has MADE us some vinyl terrariums. We know it took her a long time and we LOVE them. We stuffed them with mosses, lichen branches, glass chips and stones. Sometimes a small xmas santa or sparkly bird to keep it fun and colourful.
We also have a new addition to our store. Living rocks! Or Lithops as they are also called. They are native to South African desert, these little darlings disguise themselves as rocks to preserve their water. They also have pretty flowers and change colour when they get lots of sun. cool!!
Take a look at some of our newest goodies here and check us out on facebook and twitter @sm_flowers
Until next time....Happy Holidays!!

Festive Centerpieces

Happy Thursday Everyone!

I thought I would do a quick post about centerpieces. Most people usually want one for themselves or at least have one to gift each year. Festive centerpieces are some of the best, I think, because we get to add that little bit of extra sparkle that is maybe not as appropriate the rest of the year.
Here is just a small sneak peak of some of our arrangements that have already flew out the door for special events and dinners.

Let us know if we can make one up special for you!

A Gorgeous Gardeny Wedding

Pretty pictures from a wedding we did this past Aug.

We love keeping it simple, and letting the flowers do the talking. This gardeny themed wedding is beautiful and easy-going while still having that fine luxury factor that every bride wants!

Thank you Mark and Sara for letting us share your special day with the world.

Until next time..

Inspirational Blogs

Good Morning!
I decided to share with you today some blogs that we find inspirational. I have been noticing more and more how much I go to a company's blog to check them out rather then going through their website. You can get more of a feel for the business and hopefully see some more "gritty" or "real" photos of work, testimonials etc.
I love that more of a personality can show through in blogs and that you can link to other work/pictures/writing easily. To me, it makes everything more current and fresh; for the designer(s) and the customers.
Here is a short list of our favorites:
http://botanicalbrouhaha.blogspot.com/
http://floragrubb.com/florasblog/
http://bellefleurny.com/
http://saipua.blogspot.com/
http://www.designsponge.com/category/diy-projects

Check them out and see what you think!!!
We love them!

Thanks for reading!

Fall is in the air!

Good Morning!

Monday's are such a nice blogging day for me.

It gets me in the creative mood!

Today I am sharing some pictures of pretty things we made last week. We got in a few BEAUTIFUL oncidium orchids and we are in love with them. Lauren potted them up and they are stunning.

It is crisp outside but we have lots of things to make your home cosy inside and out!

Thanks for reading!

Fun at the Pumpkin Patch!!!!!!

We went to the pumpkin patch yesterday and picked up some pretties for our fall display and arrangements.

White and orange pumpkins as well as gourds and other mini squash are available for your purchase!!

Check out our cute pictures or better yet, stop by yourself for a peak of the new seas

Pumpkin arrangements pics and more wreath pics to come

We have been tweeting all week, and love our new twitter account! We are even getting the lingo down...you know, RW and all the # and @ things we need to know.

Follow us @sm_flowers

Until next time.... :)

Jennifer's Favorite Flowers...this week!

Can you guess them all? 15% off your order if you can!!

Special Moments has just joined TWITTER!!

Follow us on twitter! We just just learning how to tweet and whatnot...so help us out and follow us @sm_flowers.
What would you like us to tweet about? Everything? Life? In store specials?
Please give us some feedback :)

Time to get your WREATH on!!

Hi All!

I feel like I haven't blogged in forever. I KNOW that I have not been doing my Monday/Wednesday posting.....we are coming back into our busy busy time and I think we will scale down to 1 posting a week.

Check our facebook for more pictures and sweet deal updates!

Since Summer is coming to an end (I know, it hurts but we have to continue on!) we have been having a big sale on our more summery health and beauty lines. We have LUCIA candles, room spray and soaps 40% off, as well as ARCHIPELAGO, ECOYA, DAYNA DECKER AND VOLUSPA....it's an awesome time to come in and stock up your gift closet and maybe find something for yourself along the way.

ALSO! We have new Lollia scents and candles (In love is our new scent) They are so very pretty and deserve a good smell. We are now carrying TOCCA. A beautiful line made in New York. Lush and complicated notes make up 3 scents for your to try. Cleopatra (my personal fav) Stella and Florence.

We have new everything! Vases, hanging vases, cool planters, decorative pumpkins, air ferns, succulents galore, and fall wreaths! See pics above for some of our newest wreaths so far this year. We have been attaching air ferns and other dried goodies to make them come to life a little bit more. We have nice warm colours and unique ideas!

We would also like to welcome back Lauren to Special Moments, she was gone for a few months and we missed her dearly. WELCOME BACK LAUREN!!!

I better run now, it's been a busy day and I have bouquets to make!

Bye for now :)

A few pretty pictures from a pretty wedding...

More beautiful shots to come from this stunner of a wedding!!!

Mimosa Trees

I love mimosa trees.

They are so beautiful. Last week we discovered one in the gardens here at the Park and Tilford. At first I didn't know what it was as I have only seen the mimosa trees with small yellow ball-flowers. (Also super cute) After a quick google search for "pink puff ball tree" I fell in love.

Apparently they are quite intrusive and can cause many people to have allergies to them...but I don't care...I STILL love them!!

They attract butterflies and hummingbirds. Everyone loves those things. They are hardy and can grow up to 40 feet tall!!

Short blog today...just wanted to share these pretty pictures.

Enjoy the rain and your Monday evening!!!

Wordless Wednesday

A few of the pretty things we made today...

Awesome day! (why not?!)

Good Morning!

Everything is well in the world this Monday....and that's how I like it!

So far this week is going great! I've changed both the window displays and cleaned out the cooler. Phew!

I also did tons more plantings and bouquets. . YAY!

We are getting more and more attention for our terrariums and air plants. Everyone loves them, and I can't blame them. There is something about having plants completely enclosed in glass that makes it feel like you are peering into another small world......maybe that's just me...

Either way, I am slowing transforming my own home to have as many little worlds as I can fit in. All shapes and sizes, nooked here and there.

Continuing this week is a great sale on all our soaps and bubble baths - 30% off any brand in the store. Come in and replenish your gift closet. Feel free to pick up one for yourself at the same time!!

Here come the customers...I better go!

See you Wednesday!!

Words on Wednesday

Hello!

Sorry for my skipped posting this past Monday...it was BC DAY and I was out enjoying our beautiful city like the rest of the province.

Iris is back from vacation today! YAY!

Welcome back Iris!!

We got another stunning auction yesterday. Favs for the weeks are defiantly ZINNIAS and DAHLIAS....see pics below. Beaaaaauuuuuuutiful colors and so so fresh....mmm.....summer flowers.

We have tons of weddings the rest of the month to keep us busy. Come on in and visit us!!

p.s. this week we have 30% off all soaps and bubblebaths!! Any Brand!!

AWESOME!!

It's Wednesday :)

I love sunshine!

Good Morning, Afternoon or Evening.....wherever you are!

Trucking along here through a mostly sunny Monday. I hope you are all doing the same. :)

Iris is on vacation this week (gone to Alberta with the fam!) so Jennifer and I will be keeping things in order for the next 10 days ourselves. Have a great time Iris, if you are reading this! We miss you already...even though this would normally be your day off.....ANYWAY!

We just got in new Compendium cards (one of our best selling card lines) and I've spent the last 1/2 hour or so pricing them and getting them on the shelves. Hurry to check them out...they never last long!

I was just looking at them all to try and pick my favorite quote and share it here, but I can't pick!!!

A couple of my favs:

"Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air..." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." - Anatole France

"Happiness is a place between too little and too much." - Finnish Proverb

also.....the one I am buying today for my dear friends birthday...

"Friend. Good." - Frankenstein's Monster

How could you not love these!?

Ok, other news, our special of the week, last week, was so popular we decided to extend it for this week as well.

30% off any candle (any brand) in the store. We have over 15 different candle types so you will find something that suites your smell-tastes for sure.

3pm!!! I gotta go!!

Talk Wednesday.....

-Chandi