{choc/chic}

{ happy weekend }

flowers from today

hope you have a wonderful weekend..... we are planning a long bike/skateboarding adventure with our picnic basket strapped on my bike....should be fun!

{ joe nye }

i would like to flip through this book...for ideas

keeping my fingers crossed that i'll get to ride my bide home in the rain today.

{new tub }

we ended up buying a salvaged and refinished porcelain pedestal tub.... don't want to be home when the movers try and get it up the "butler" stairs at our house

i love round shower curtain rods.....but i've read bad reviews

{ last night }

was so rad.....thank you so much to everyone who came out to celebrate!

the shop still smells of champagne, lilacs and yummy strawberry cupcakes from the frosted cake shop.

my aunt and kelli jane took some great photos which i'll post soon.

kinda partied out....so if you need me or flowers

i'll be in the back watching in search of beethoven

from glamor this

otto scholder

{ house stuff }

big decisions for the boy's upstairs bath

we plan to replace the taps only and save the sink....not to mention money and drywall waste in the landfill.

plus the old hot and cold taps remind me of my grandmother

shower or 4foot bath??? we had to rip out the old shower closet...the 101 year old pipes had it.

have to do gold with the dark colors {below}

gosh, last weekend i passed on a great moroccan rug at the alameda flea market.

{ house stuff }

lonny mag

domino mag

{cards+such}

just received a mailer from rifle paper co.......i'm in love!

{5.12.10}

i love these little guys sooooo much!

i need to find a carpenter who could build a large aviary in the store

would love to adopt some bunnies from the spca as well, but the hubby said no.

oh and we have a TON of peonies in the shop right now!

bye

{ mother's day flowers }

still more to come.....some got out the door without photos

i was talking with wes from twiggs at the flower market the other day.

told him i refuse to get all stressed out, get my self all tight...then my flowers won't flow like i want them to .

i'm sure he was like sure...yeah let's take tips from her {that guy is great i'm sure they are super super busy over there!} stay loose wes :)

i do have a lot going on though....so to survive i've been misting my face with rose water, dabbing this little potion under my eyes, listing to lots of metric, and looking forward to a tall margarita someday soon! maybe i should take wes.

{mother's day flowers at the shop }

{ floral festival at the crocker }

the museum sent over these photos and the lovely invitation.... imagine {sigh} a florists dream.

for mother's day...be sure to pick up one of our victorian posies of lilac, forget me not + peonies on sale at our table this weekend.

celebrate the crocker art museum's 125th anniversary and party like it's 1885

saturday may 8th noon-4

(photo credits)

Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl, Frontispiece from the Souvenir Album Commemorating the Floral Festival, 1885. Gouache on paper, 12 3/4 x 9 15/16 in. Crocker Art Museum, bequest of Jennie Fassett Learned.

George C. Shreve and Company, Gold and Silver Tablets presented to Margaret Crocker on May 6th, 1885 by the Sacramento Society of California Pioneers, May 6, 1885. Gold, silver and velvet, 11 3/4 x 8 in. Crocker Art Museum, bequest of Jennie Fassett Learned. Photograph by Jay Lensch.

{ mother's day }

arrangement from today

{ 5.4.10 }

no more sherbet carnations......i had to get them again this week cause i missed victor.

{mother's day hours}

we will be open saturday for pre-made bouquets and arrangements

{victor will be managing the shop-while i'm at the crocker} 10-2

on sunday open from 10-2 as well

you can place your order online

we have peonies, lilac, sweet peas, viburnum, parrot tulips, forget me not, roses, ranunculus, SUPER SOFT lambs ear, scented geranium & mint

my oldest son gave me this gustav klimt print for my first mother's day.....almost 16 years ago {wow}

bow to the masters.......odorantes

with that said , next week yves piaget roses will be at the shop....these smell absolutely incredible!

{flowers for the crocker art }

one of my favorites on display....ALLEGORY OF LIFE by GUIDO CAGNACCI

we will have flowers on display part of the crocker art museum's 125th anniversary celebration this saturday may the 8th from noon-4