Bradford, AR Florists

Bradford Flower Shop News

Expert floral designer visits Andover - Eagle-Tribune

Bonnie Antkowiak, Tilton School; JoAnn Atwood, Golden Hill; Maureen Bly, Little Sprouts Haverhill NECC; Joseph Boland, Whittier Regional Vo Tech; Tim Carven, Pentucket Lake; John Clark, Bradford Elementary; Paul Corriveau, Silver Hill; Danielle Gregoire, Moody School; Heather Guthrie, Sacred Hearts; Alexandra Handel, Silver Hill; Rhonda Kurto, Sacred Hearts; Dana McNamara, Tilton School; Paul Moskevitz, Whittier Regional Vo Tech; Kim Perez, Silver Hill; Beth Perry, Tilton School, and Meghan Pstragowski, Golden Hill.Tickets are $40 each an include dinner. Raffles for gift baskets will be available. RSVP by Nov. 7 to Colette Ekman at ekmanc@northshoreymca.org.Festival of Trees at the ButtonwoodsThe Buttonwoods Museum's 16th annual "Christmas at the Buttonwoods: A Festival of Trees" runs from Nov. 24 (opening gala night) through Dec. 10.Tentative hours are posted on the museum's website, http://www.buttonwoods.org. A full schedule will be posted once it is available. The deadline to donate or advertise for this year's event is Sunday, Nov. 12.Donated trees, wreaths and centerpieces can be dropped off as follows: from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 8; from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 9; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 10 and 11; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 12.For more information, contact the Buttonwoods at 978-374-4626. Holiday fair to benefit Salem Animal Rescue LeagueDERRY — Brookstone Park is holding a Holiday Fair to benefit the Salem Animal Rescue League from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 25.The fair will be held at Brookstone’s location at 14 Route 111 in Derry.Vendors will be selling homemade items, holiday themed gifts, bags, jewelry, pet items, clothes and more. There will also be activities for kids, with a children’s book sale, photos with Santa, and raffle items.All proceeds from this event support the Salem Animal Rescue League and the animals in their care.#ndn-video-player-3.ndn_embedded .ndn_floatContainer { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; }... http://www.eagletribune.com/news/haverhill/expert-floral-designer-visits-andover/article_0ad9ef64-3938-5769-80a1-1a9af4081854.html

Keefe's Flowers moves into new location - Casper Star-Tribune Online

After years of owning Keefe’s Flowers, my dreams have finally come true,” owner Melanie Bradford said in the release. “I look forward to providing Casper with so much more than just flowers, and pair unique and modern designs with the gifts that I would want to give.”... http://trib.com/business/keefe-s-flowers-moves-into-new-location/article_9305c2d8-05e1-5674-ad7a-ed12d0b45554.html

Florist Makes Happiness Bloom In Trumbull With Petal It Forward Bouquets - Trumbull-Monroe Daily Voice

Wow. It’s beautiful,” said Farkas, once Raeann McLaren explained why she came up to him with an armload of blooms. “I’m going to give them to my honey.”Palazzo’s future in-laws, Debbie and Wayne Bradford who live in Great Britain and happened to be in town visiting, said they were happy to join in on the positive project.“I think they told me someone did this in New York last year,” said Debbie Bradford. “It’s great.”Nicole’s father, Bob Palazzo, said he started loading the flowers to be given away at about 6:30 a.m. The group planned to visit sites in Shelton, Stratford, Trumbull, Fairfield and Bridgeport throughout the morning and into the afternoon until all the bouquets — featuring roses, lilies and season garden mixes — were gone.Many see Pay It Forward Week as a time to secretly pay for the coffee of a stranger in the next car at a drive-through or buy a cookie for a fellow diner at a restaurant. As a florist, Palazzo said she believes Petal It Forward gives people a lasting gift of happiness.In fact, the Petal It Forward program at City Line is in partnership with the Society of American Florists, a national trade association. According to Palazzo, Petal It Forward is a response to new research showing the emotional benefits of flowers.“We see the positive impact day in and day out when we make our flower deliveries,” she said of City Line, which has been around since 1918. “People love to get flowers ‘just because.’”Her future sister-in-law, Georgia Bradford, said she enjoyed the confused looks on recipients’ faces.“Nothing’s free anymore, is it?” she said.“Nothing but the air,” said her dad. http://trumbull.dailyvoice.com/neighbors/florist-makes-happiness-bloom-in-trumbull-with-petal-it-forward-bouquets/686275/

YWCA Bradford presents gift baskets to women leaving shelter - Bradford Era

For several years, the YWCA Bradford Housing and Employment Services program has offered safe and secure emergency housing to women and women with children who have nowhere else to stay. The shelter is designed to be a temporary sanctuary.Now, the YWCA is offering gift baskets to assist women once they leavethat sanctuary.“The program we’re starting involves what we call ‘transition packs’,” said Housing and Employment Services Shelter Manager Amber Frontino on Thursday afternoon. “Each pack will be designated to women and women with children once they leave the shelter, as a means of assisting in the transition process of getting back up on their feet and living on their own.”The packs include a variety of basic-needs items such as garbage bags, dishes, pot holders, oven mitts, dish cloths, tissues, paper towels, toilet paper, shower curtains, shower curtain rings, disinfectants and cleaners, bleach, soap, sponges, mops, buckets and brooms.“It’s a lot of basic items that homeowners often take for granted,” said... http://www.bradfordera.com/news/ywca-bradford-presents-gift-baskets-to-women-leaving-shelter/article_a2f42fa6-973b-11e6-8de9-7be44b31fc7f.html

Laurence Reisman: Logic goes out window when association trashes flowers? - TCPalm

Steve Glaser's colorful yard in Vero Beach's Bradford Place was beautiful by many accounts on July 5, 2016.(Photo: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY STEVE GLASER)Steve Glaser HAD the nicest yard in his neighborhood.His Realtor even said so.“You had the nicest landscaped property in Bradford Place with amazing curb appeal,” Jill Arsenault wrote Glaser. “How did you go from the nicest home in the community to what it is today? We certainly need to lower your asking price.”What happened had nothing to do with excessive summer rain, fire or armadillos. Landscapers hired by Glaser’s homeowners association yanked out marigolds, impatiens, begonias and more — including staghorn ferns, gifts from his father. Glaser said he got wind of the destruction only after he heard his dogs barking at the crowd outside.“I went from the nicest property to the worst,” said Glaser, 60, a longtime professional photographer who moved to the gated community of attached homes off Oslo Road, Vero Beach, in January 2014. He’d brought with him numerous flowers and plants... http://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/columnists/laurence-reisman/2016/09/20/laurence-reisman-logic-goes-out-window-when-association-trashes-flowers/90697672/

Contactless flower delivery ensuring Mother's Day smiles despite outbreak - The Courier

Geneva Curren. Curren has a past with flower shops in Washington D.C., New York City, and operating three shops across Arkansas and Chicago. Her knowledge of flowers stems from her childhood in visiting her family in the South where she would spend hours and hours picking wildflowers.While the company’s main objective of creating designs that inspire and bring joy to the recipients, the employees are trained to help with selecting the best flowers for you. Under this circumstance, Curren said, “Working as a florist has been wonderful, challenging, exhausting, inspiring, hectic, fun, maddening, and fantastic!” Orders as of right now are piling in for Curren and her staff, causing everyone to feel overwhelmed. As it is described as part of the job as a florist, understanding customers mean well and only want to stay local. With a minimum of $75 for fresh arrangements and $40 for plant deliveries, Halsted Flowers plans to make multiple rounds a day for their customers. Even though hours of operation are limited each day, the employees are finding themselves working around the clock in order to finish their customer’s requests. Delivery drivers are out until late in the night and up early in the morning to make their rounds and to clear out the shop to make room for more orders. Saville Flowers: https://savilleflowers.com/ Phone: (847)864-0632Halsted Flowers: https://halstedflowers.com/ Phone: (773)883-8600... https://codcourier.org/13169/features/contactless-flower-delivery-ensuring-smiles/

Flowering trees in full bloom - Westside Eagle Observer

DECATUR -- Spring has accelerated over the past two weeks, with several varieties of flowering trees in full bloom across Northwest Arkansas.At Crystal Lake, and throughout the wooded areas of Decatur, Gentry, Gravette and beyond, white dogwood trees are beginning to dot the hillsides with their beautiful white blossoms. Close cousins, the pink dogwoods are also beginning their blooming cycle.Different varieties of flowering trees, including the Japanese pear, with its white petals, will soon begin to bear fruit. The Asian or Japanese pear is a cross between pear and apple trees. The fruit looks more like an apple than a pear.Also scattered around Northwest Arkansas is an assortment of different types of apple and cherry trees, in full bloom with white and pink flowers showing off nature's beauty.Another tree with colorful blooms is the eastern redbud, the state tree of Oklahoma, with its reddish-violet flowers, showcased in downtown Decatur around the depot and log cabin area, as well as in many places in Gravette, Gentry and the surrounding area.Take a little time with the family to explore the beauty that spring... https://www.eagleobserver.com/news/2020/apr/01/flowering-trees-in-full-bloom-20200401/

Maker Space: Eden Garrett's idea blossomed - NWAOnline

There's no minimum or maximum -- it's whatever they happen to have in their pocket."After graduation, Garrett spent about a year in Springfield running the truck before deciding to move to Northwest Arkansas."I love Northwest Arkansas," she says. "There are so many opportunities for growth here. And because I work out of a truck, I can go from Fayetteville to Rogers to Springdale to Bentonville and all of those towns in between -- so I catch more people than just being in the middle of Springfield."Garrett says part of the process of becoming a successful business person was learning how to be flexible when business was in a slow period."I'm just motivated every day to push forward and make the sales higher each day -- even if it's really slow, even if, that day, no one wants flowers," she says. "I'll think, 'OK, what else can I do? Can I do deliveries? Can I announce on social media that all bouquets are $5 or that delivery is free on this particular day?' Each day, I'm going to make as much money as I can and provide an excellent product."She's also available for parties and weddings; one popular option for celebrations are the custom flower crowns partygoers can make inside the truck.Garrett says she's wanted to own a business since she was a child. Her first business idea -- a boutique that would serve as both a makeup salon as well as an event space, so you could get ready for a party right there at the site -- came to her when she was just 10 years old."My mom owned her own business, and I was just super fascinated by it," she says. "I've always known I didn't want to have a 9-to-5 job where I sit behind a desk all day -- that's just not who I am. I've always wanted to own my own business."It's clear that her youth isn't holding her back. Eden's Flower Truck was recognized at the 2019 Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce Excellence in Business Awards Ceremony, and she's opening up her first brick and mortar store called Eden's Botanicals this month. She says opening a storefront was in her five-year plan but, when she found a perfect location on North Steele Boulevard, her business instincts told her it was the right time to make a move."The storefront will mostly be for workshops and parties -- more of an event space," says Garrett, who adds that the mobile truck will still be used for floral sales. "We'll also sell flower gifts [in the store]. I'm super excited."Garrett is already looking towards the future and making plans -- big plans."I want to own some land, hopefully around the Fayetteville area, and have a mini-Magnolia Market, similar to [Fixer Upper stars] Chip and Joanna Gaines' business," she says. "I want there to be a few cottages, like an Airbnb, and then also have a spot to grow my own flowers so I don't have to buy them wholesale any more. And I would sell gifts and flowers and other merchandise and have it all be in one giant property, a destination that people from all over come to."If what she's accomplished so far is any indication, the goals of her 10-year plan may just be closer than she thinks..inline_item { float: left; display: inline; }div class="inline__bloc... https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2020/feb/13/maker-space-eden-garrett-s-idea-blossom/

HER | Local decorator helps get homes ready for holidays - Texarkana Gazette

We get to do a lot of natural decor in them," she said.For natural decor such as twigs, moss and dried flowers, Marie has a 35-year relationship with "The Nature Lady" in Mena, Arkansas. It is one of few suppliers she uses outside of the Dallas market.Marie Barfoot has lots of little friends around to brighten up the holidays. (PHOTO BY KATE STOW)Farmer's Bank in Texarkana is just one of the businesses Marie decorates this time of year. Others can be seen in Broken Bow, Idabel, Valiant and Hochatown."I've decorated several businesses in Southeast Oklahoma," Marie said, "including four banks, a phone company, some cell phone businesses and lodges at Beaver's Bend."But Oklahoma isn't as far as she is willing to go. "Every July I go to Dauphin Island, Alabama, where I have several clients. They get decor 'refreshers' each summer," she said. "When I go down there I also go deep-sea fishing for Red Snapper, so it's an annual vacation for me."When she isn't decorating for others, she and her husband Jerry reside on the Louisiana side of Caddo Lake where they enjoy entertaining. They are also very active at Trees Baptist Church. They have four children: Tony Campbell of Queen City, Dee Dee Wells and Misty Lutton of Atlanta, and Damon Donnell of Athens, Texas.Marie says she has never gotten too busy to take on more clients."I never turn anyone down," she said. "I just hire more people to do the work. We will do what it takes to make people happy." n... https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/her/story/2019/dec/03/her-local-decorator-helps-get-homes-ready-holidays/806564/