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Tuesday 23 April 2013

Tips for Designing the Theme of your Flower Shop



Flowers play a vital role in commemorating numerous beautiful occasions of life. These may include occasions like births, graduations, weddings, and deaths. Flowers are the only communication channel to convey any emotion – from love to sympathy. Moreover, flowers have the capability to enrich any sort of environment. This is from their myriad colors, fragrances, and shapes. Sometimes, customers even buy mothers day flowers just to to gift their mother. These reasons make us believe that a floral shop can be quite profitable and rewarding business. Well, here are some guidelines by “Ferns N Petals” if you are planning to design or even redesign your floral shop.
The most important thing is to make your flower shop look welcoming to attract customers. Just have a look at the following tips:
·         Divide your shop into two main segments – front and back. The front segment should provide an open place for customers to roam. The back space, on the other hand, should be the working area where arrangements are assembled by the employees. This back space is also used to keep files and store files.
·         Set a refrigerated cooler in the front segment of your shop. This cooler should feature glass doors for it would be used to display the various fresh bouquets plus arrangements put for sale.
·         To create a pleasing, enticing, and fragrant milieu for the customers, fill the front segment of your shop with fresh cut flowers in various buckets. Put some buckets on tables while others may be placed on the floor.
·         You can also put on show some other merchandise like vases, potted plants, cards, baskets, plus stuffed toys in the front segment of your shop. Place this merchandise on shelves and tables.
·         Make sure that even after all this stuff there is sufficient space in the front segment for customers to move around easily. Also, bear in mind that the walkways provided should be wide enough for customers using wheelchairs.
·         Well, while setting all this, did you think about where you would sit to have meetings with customers for their wedding arrangements or any other event decors? It is essential to set aside an alluring corner in the front segment where you could sit as the owner of the shop. This meeting area should include chairs and a small table.
·         There need be a counter partition between the front and the back segment of the shop to separate the two segments. Counter can be used not only as a counter, but also to place various essentials of shop including the telephone, cash register, credit card machine, floral preservative packets, plastic card picks, pens, and small cards.
·         The back space or the work area, as mentioned above, should be furnished with counters on which the workers can assemble the arrangements. This workspace should also include a smaller cooler to store special order arrangements and the extra flowers.
I hope you find these simple and easy tips from “Ferns N Petals” extremely helpful in designing or redesigning your floral shop. Good Luck!

Tuesday 8 May 2012

The Perfect Addition For a Unique Mother's Day

Mothers Day flowers have traditionally been the most popular gift for the annual maternal holiday. So, spruce up your typical celebration by writing a funny Mothers Day poem. It's a great low cost way of adding that extra special message of love and appreciation for Mom. She'll be surprised and remember it for years and years.

In creating a funny Mothers Day poem, you'll have a gift that is personal and expressive that will stir your Mom's emotions through shared memory and laughter. More than that, during times when money is tight or you just do not want to add to the commercialism of holidays, giving a poem as a gift just makes sense.
For many people, writing a poem feels like a difficult task, but it doesn't have to be. Start by writing down some thoughts that express how you feel about your mother and how she's taken care of you. Next, write down some funny stories that have happened with the both of you involved. If you shorten some of the stories and thoughts, you'll have the start of a poem. Then, keep editing and rewording to give some rhythm to the words. If you're skilled enough, you can try to rhyme the ends of the lines, but it's not necessary.

If you feel you're not a great writer, that should not stop you. Think about a friend or family member that enjoys writing and ask that they write the poem for you. Remind them that they can use it for themselves as well. Alternatively, you can also hire someone to create the poem for you from Craigslist or from an online service like Elance.com or Guru.com.

After you have the poem, purchase a card or some stationary. The card should not have any pre-printed words on it so that your funny Mothers Day poem gets all the attention. Carefully write your poem onto the card by hand and place it in an envelope addressed to your mother. In this digital age, a hand-written piece of prose is very rare and provides that all-so-necessary personal touch.

As a final touch, be sure to combine your poem with flowers, the most of all traditional Mothers Day gifts. Certainly red roses are recognized to express love, but any well-done bouquet of fragrant and colorful flowers will be a perfect complement to your poem. If you wish, take your mother out for dinner, or stay in and cook. It will cap a fantastic Mothers Day perfectly.