Cute Little Wood Slab Acrylic Painting Winter Mountain Landscape Scene

Finally dig out my acrylic paint stuff to paint on the wood slab... Winter Mountain scene this time. Next time I'll try something else

Small Painting on Wood Slab Original Art Hand Painted Tiny | Etsy Canada

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Last get together for holiday...

It's finally New Year! YA! Kids are going back to school on Monday and we all can have our schedule back to normal... No more eating out anytime soon. My tummy is getting irritated since the diet hobbit changed so dramatically over the holiday seasons. even my daughter complaints about tummy ache after we had dinner at so many friends and relatives' houses. Good thing is no body drink and drive and even they went drinking at count down, they all took subway. I'm not in the age for New Year count down out door. No motivation to freeze myself at the crowded downtown~ Just not with my little ones. They all crashed at beds by 10pm... No counting down for them either... We drank a couple bottles at home, I washed one bottle and wanted to experiment the painting on it. Hope it will turn out good~ Cheers!

Pingu candy land...

Yesterday when me and my husband took my boy to Bloorview kids rehab for semi-annual check up, we saw this funny balloon creatures scene on the side road while we are coming back home. It's really cute. My boy love the Pingus the best and the snow globe too. Too bad that the traffic was so bad on bayview ave at the rush hour that we cannot stop by and have a closer look... It was just around Bayview Avenue and Lawrence in Toronto. North of Sunnybrook hospital (where Bloorview Kids Rehab is). Such a Christmas cheers! Ya... today's last day of my kids' school... We will back on track when New Year comes! For now, we are going to EAT, SLEEP and PLAY! Merry Christmas! and Happy New Year!

Thanks Mom!!!

Seems before and after Mother's day there was a big gap of period that I don't even have time to touch my computer... Lot's of emails to respond, and lots of junk mails to delete. Updating whatever has to be updated... Lack of motivation to doing anything else but sleep... Oh well, it's just a typical symptom of laziness/recovery right after Mother's day rush. Right before Mother's day Sunday, there was a big prom going happening on Thursday... Good 40-50 pcs of corsages and boutonnieres orders to make right before all the holiday rush... I haven't seen or said hello and kiss my daughter and son during Mother's day weekend. Me and my husband went out to store to get ready for the preparation at 7am and didn't come back home till later of the night around midnight. As a florist after all the years, I really missed all the big holidays. We did work a lot to satisfy other people and customers during the big holidays, but we missed our own quality time with our family a lot. Thanks to my mom (and dad) that they are very helpful to take care of our kids while we are busy~~~ Thanks Mom!!! We love you~~~

Economy Crisis V.S. Valentine's Day

In the past few years, I'd noticed the trend of flower sales drop during Valentine period. What is the Valentine period? Usually it's the week from February 7 to Valentine's Day on 14th. Usually, the whole week will be as busy as hell. People ordering flowers through the phone; Internet orders shooting out of the printer till the paper is out; lots of walk in inquiries and roses pre-ordering. But this year is kind of weird. People don't tend to start ordering till the 2 days before Valentine's Day. It seems that people thought about not to spend at the beginning but at the end they feel that they still need to spend on flowers/roses for Valentine... It's kind of sad that to see the retail industry volume had dropped big time. Although you can say that on the 13th and the 14th, flower shop is the most popular store out of all retails. but whatever been made over these 2 days were used to cover the expenses during the dead month of January... Anyway, so far it seems to be a smooth Valentine for most of the shops. No major crises had happens in the industry and the weather had permitted for most of the deliveries. In the past few years, people had choose to pick up flowers in store more often than have them delivered. Our delivery orders had decreased about 50% from last year; but the pick up orders had increased. From the sudden increase of dramatic walk-in sales on 13th and 14th, you can feel the panic and the stress from people looking for flower shops and see if they still have roses available. We ordered about 2500 roses (75% red, others are mixed color), red color were sold out at 5pm, one hour before we closed the store. I know some other store were out at 2pm since they didn't stock up too crazy. However, the spending power has dropped big time this year. More single, 2/3-roses or mixed bouquet sales than dozen roses sale. People would rather spend on dozen tulips more than dozen roses~ Economy crises do have a big impact on the flora industry. It's the global issue that the demand on gift giving items had decreased. On flora industry, it affects on quality and selection of fresh flower supplies, increased cost of shipping and less flora suppliers to choose from if more suppliers can not survive through this economy crises. Hopefully the situation will get a bit better in the next few years.

Red cube vase arrangement with Grass Heart:

Red roses - Forever Young
Hot pink asters
Variegated Pitt
Salal
Lily Grasses+Bear Grasses
Oasis for Fresh
Red Glass Cube

Ready for Valentine?

It's only 9 days away from Valentine's day. As a florist, we all know it will be like hell... have to prepare grandpa's funeral, at the mean time, get very stressful from the holiday rush. Valentine's day and mother's day are the florist's worst nightmare... I can start to feel that my nose cannot handle the amount of roses and baby's breath which will trigger my allergy attack. I'm getting sick now... headache, running nose, sneezing like crazy and no energy. I really cannot tell if it's just my nose allergy or I'd got the same cold from my little one... He had running nose too... Anyway, hope everything will go well and we can have a happy Valentine... followed by Family Day on Monday. Flu Flu please go away....

-Rosy Heart-

Flower arrangement above:

Mixed Red roses (Forever Young), White roses (Vendella) and Pink roses (Sophie)

Variegated Pitt

Bear Grass

Wooden tray waterproof treated

Oasis