The Gift Exchange

Ahhh…here it comes again…good ol’ St. Patty’s Day. I always got very excited for St. Patrick’s day as I was growing up until the day actually arrived. Oh I had good intentions, always promising myself that I would remember to wear green so that this year I would not get pinched. But [...]

Everything around here seems to be shedding those winter blues. It’s no longer dark when I wake up for work in the morning, the birds are all flooding back home and we have our new selection of spring flowers. I was sitting at my desk staring out of the window at the blue sky (which is [...]

This Valentine’s Day around 110 million roses will be given in a three day period. It makes sense, since roses seemed to be most attached with romance, love, and someone really trying hard to get a second date. While roses alone can sweep a woman off of her feet, it’s a little known secret that getting [...]

Guest Blogger: Rhonda With February being a month that is filled with talk of love and romance, it is understandable that flowers such as roses, tulips and carnations are often associated with this month. However, a little known fact is that the birth flower for February is the iris, the violet being an alternative. The iris flower [...]

Ahem, boyfriends and husbands of the world. Now is the right time to begin thinking and ordering Valentine’s Day gifts for your special someone. But it’s only January, you say? This is true, but please allow a gifting industry insider to tell you a few important benefits to ordering early for this very special holiday. 1) [...]

The giving of flowers has been a unique tradition that started to become commonly practiced hundreds of years ago. During the Victorian Era, a time when people typically didn’t believe in expressing their emotions, the language of flowers (floriography) and the meaning behind which flowers they sent became a new form of expression. Soon, many [...]

This week marks my mom and step father’s two year wedding anniversary. They decided to go all out and take a trip to Washington DC for a week and I am thinking, what would be a better thing for this loving daughter to do than to send her parents something nice to their hotel room. [...]

When I was a little girl, I would always count down the days until Halloween. Halloween meant trick-or-treating, dressing up in fun costumes, and family parties where we would bob for apples and listen to the Monster Mash. Now that I’m a mom of two, I can’t help but get caught up in their excitement! [...]

Kalanchoe is an indoor plant that is very easy to care for. Most of the time people purchase the plant, wait till it blooms, and then simply then throw it away, not knowing how to make it rebloom. Here are the instructions to help your Kalanchoe plant rebloom. The most important part that you need to [...]

I’ve been waiting for spring since September 1st, or I should say, the moment that first fall rain came. Spring is one of my absolute favorite times of year. You see more of the warm sunny days and better yet, the days are much longer. Now you have the time to go on the walks [...]