Sally's Birthday and a Special Little Visitor

Sally gets a surprise...

We all pretended we'd forgotten her Birthday all morning and then feigned shock and surprise when Rebecca phoned to wish her a Happy Day, of course we always knew, of course we'd never forget, we were just all so super busy that the pre ordered cake didn't make it up to Sally's office until nearly 2:00pm

I keep telling her that candlelight is flattering

Then we noticed a little visitor in the side window munching on some ears of corn, he was humanley captured and released into Ashton Gardens, I hope he doesn't come back for some of Sally's Cake.

18th Birthday Dinner Party Flowers

Welcome to the Salon in The Grand Hotel, Lytham St Annes.

This is "Little Emily's" 18th Birthday party, she's a very classy young lady with dramatic overtones and we felt this combination of fresh bright youthful colours, the individual flowers chosen and the way they are arranged are absolutely Emily, this is a very personal and individual table design created for a very special person.

The Flower Design seating plan for all the guests to sign

Each cube contains a simple design of either one or two varieties of Emily's favourite blooms.

Spring Lilac & Viburnum for Emily's youthfulness and her new beginnings.

Vanda Orchids for the absolutely Dramatic Little Emily


The roses for an English rose.

The white peonies are so pure, clean and innocent.

The order of the arrangement of these flowers is also so completely Emily, she is an amazing organiser and she loves order.

Little Emily is one of the very best Saturday Girls we've ever had at Flower Design and we all love her lots and wish her a very Happy 18th Birthday.

Halloween Window

Jo & Rachel designed this window display, Black, Purple & Orange were their chosen colours.

Rachel with Jo's Wig on, Do Blondes have more fun?

"Sally Don't Be A Hero"

Today’s subjects for discussion in the Flower Design camp have included “Have a Go Heroes” and we all had to agree that we would all want a hero to be around if any of our nearest and dearest’s were in trouble. We all had to accept also that probably we ourselves and our men folk couldn’t help but interfere if necessary, not because we/they are heroes but simply because instinctively it is the right thing to do. We have also touched upon eating disorders, I really must have one, Jason is doing really well on his sponsored diet for Garstang Lions, I who thankfully has not been sponsored am doing ridiculously badly, my addiction to chocolate is reaching heady levels and I am cutting my consumption in half, I have been told today that you actually suffer from withdrawal symptoms if you cut it out altogether, so perhaps it would be dangerous for me to do such a drastic thing!
Then a subject close to my heart, my fabulous melodic singing, I sing quite a lot, I know lots of words to lots of songs, it makes me happy and joyous, Sally is always quite rude about my singing (I think is she is, quite simply envious of my talent). It is a strange thing that in your head your own singing is quite amazing, I like to sing when I am creating wedding flowers in “The Middle” I thought everyone else enjoyed my singing too, it seems they aren’t keen! Emma has ‘fessed up and told me how little she is looking forward to tomorrows rendition from Mamma Mia, I bought the CD to sing a long to especially.
The singing subject was broached when we were singing Happy Birthday to Sally who is celebrating her ** th today. She has been treated to a hair do at Richards and a good bit of pampering at Pure Beauty, not only that but she’s received flowers from admirers and very best of all for everyone Emma has made one of her fantastical chocolate birthday cakes, I have now decided to waive the chocolate fast for today!
Sally is a fantastic person, we all love her dearly and we want her to have a very, very Happy Birthday! So I have promised not to sing anymore today!