February 2011

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Valentine’s Day Flowers

February 7, 2011 in Flowers, Letterpress | 1 comment

For the first time, The Flower Lab is offering floral gifts for Valentine’s Day! Since moving to our commercial space at 1431 7th Street in Santa Monica, I thought it would be a nice opportunity to sell an assortment of Valentine’s Day flowers at a range of price points.

You can place your order now on our ONLINE STORE. Then pick up your flowers between the hours of 12-7pm on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday (2/11-2/14). Or stop by the lab to check out the flowers and place an order in person – I’ll be around daily 12-7:00 pm. We will also have arrangements available to buy on the spot. But if you pre-order an arrangement before Thursday, 2/10, receive a free letterpress Valentine’s Day card with every arrangement you purchase!

1. Hello Kitty Bouquet: For kids and kids at heart, how about a small bouquet in the shape of our favorite kitten, Hello Kitty?

2. Book of Love: We are also offering roses in red and fuchsia hidden in a box in the shape of a book. Open the cover and inside you’ll find many roses clustered together, a secret treasure.

3: Medium box of roses: Give the gift of love and friendship in a chic wooden box of roses. There are 9 roses arranged artfully in this 8″ box decorated with vintage pink tulle or a sexy bronze mesh. Choose all fuchsia roses, all red, or a mix of red and fuchsia.


4. Large box of roses: Just like the medium box of roses, but bigger at 10″ square and filled with 16 roses. Choose all red, all fuchsia, or mix of red and fuchsia.

Here are the letterpress Valentine cards we have. They were printed in-house on a hand-operated flatbed cylinder letterpress by moi! They are $4 each, or pick one free with every Valentine floral arrangement!

1. What is Love

2. Makin’ Bacon

3. Udderly Fantastic

4. Unforgettable

5. Honey Bunny

Real Weddings: Gloria and Emmanuel

February 2, 2011 in Uncategorized | No comments

Mr. and Mrs. Jacinto were recently married at St. Lorenzo Ruiz Catholic Church in Walnut and then held their reception at the famous Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. I was very excited to get to visit the aquarium again because it had been a while since I last been!

Gloria couldn’t have picked a more fitting color scheme for her wedding – orange and blue. I love this color combination and don’t get to work with it that often when it comes to weddings. Although blue can be a very difficult color to use when it comes to flowers, there is a very stunning dark blue hydrangea I love. Here are the bridesmaids bouquets in deep blue hydrangea, orange “circus” roses, gold cymbidium orchids, and orange freesia.

Gloria’s bridal bouquet was mostly white for that bridal look, with orange flowers to go with the overall theme. We used white mini calla lilies, ranunculus, and ivory “polo” roses.

The ceremony altar flowers were also white and orange: Casablanca lilies, hydrangea, “circus” roses, orange mokara orchids, white gladiolas, and curly willow branches.

And finally the reception! Gloria loved the look of deco beads, which are these cool re-hydrated beads that come in all sorts of colors. For the centerpieces we used two cylinders, a 4″ cylinder within a 6″ cylinder, and poured the deco beads into the space between the vases. Then we submerged blue LED lights into the inner vase within the stems so that the vases glowed and blue light emanated through the beads when the ambient lights dim. Something about the round shapes of the deco beads mimicking bubbles and the blue lights reflecting the blueness of the aquarium exhibits – it was simply perfect for the aquarium!