Gatherings Magazine, the White Issue

Hello all you lovely blog readers!

Just thought I'd drop in here to give you a bit of inspiration for living with white!

This is very fitting, as right now in our hometown of

Lynden, Washington USA...

we are surrounded by white

SNOW!

I am feeling warm and cozy at the moment with the heat on full blast drinking a cuppa hot cocoa & paging through

this amazing

E-zine

called:

Gatherings Magazine, the White Issue

by none other than my lovely online friend

Heather Spriggs Thompson

I highly suggest you head on over to check out the sweet vignettes and displays you'll find paging through the

White Issue of Gatherings Magazine.

Make sure while you're there you check out the wonderful past issues that

Heather has worked on.

We just love Gatherings here at Grandiflora...

and we think you will too!

Cheers my friends!

Trish

:)

P.S. we are operating on limited daytime hours due to the blizzard...but we havn't missed a day yet!

Just call ahead for details if you are wondering about our limited hours of operation.

Ring: 360.318.8854

Atlanta Georgia...America's Mart

 How about wading through 56 city block sized floors of product?

Remember, 90% of what you need to weed through isn't what you want to see....and the 10% of what you do...

 is sprinkled throughout.

Would you be up for it?

Imagine shopping from 9 am to 9pm, and then going to a hotel room and ordering from the computer/ catalogs until 2 AM....then getting up at 6 to start all over again for 6 days straight!

The strangest part?

You're not bringing home a single purchase...

only bags filled with paperwork and catalogs.

Would you be up for it?

 We were!

La Von, Kim & I were ready to shop the many floors of merchandise

at

America's Mart Atlanta, Georgia.

What a wonderful site to behold!

Boy oh Boy,

is it hard work!

Just wait until you see what we are finding here....you'll just have to be a little bit patient.

Missing our families, and co-workers....but excited to be finding all the best for our customers.

We love you guys!

See you in the store soon....

Trish

:)

XOXO -vs- Cupid is Stupid

Are you a hopeless romantic?

Or...

A cynic of "true love"?

 Let's face it....we've all been burned right?

 Sometimes we all feel a little bit jipped by Valentine's Day...

 ....even ripped off.

BUT

let's remember that LOVE is a choice you make.

Not something you fall into...so make it what you will!

Be positive, and remember...

Cupid isn't in charge!

YOU ARE!

:)

Choose Love & Joy!

....and put some sprinkles on top!

Swing in to Grandiflora to see what we've been up to....it's still a bit disheuveled here.

But hey, isn't everyone/thing after the Holidays?!?!?

We've been working hard and havin' fun

pricing new products and receiving new boxes filled with goodies.

It takes a bit to get it out, and uploaded....

please have patience with us as we wade through all that needs doin'.

We

LOVE

you

guys!

Happy New Year!

How Would You Like to Count an Entire Store?

 I'm judging by the look on Colleen's face....she'd really rather be displaying with this candle holder than counting it... wouldn't you?

:)

Oh YES, it's THAT time of the year again...

INVENTORY!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!

 One person sits and tallies, while the other gets on hands and knees....

or up on a ladder to count every little thing!

BELIEVE IT!

 Of course, that is why we have inventory reduction sales at the end of December...

the less there is, the less we have to count!

The good news?

We are way ahead of the game by having lots of lovely new items either here already, or on their way to redo the store!

Yippee!!!

:)

So, to recap:

We will be finishing off our inventory today.

Then we will spend the next week putting the store back together while doing maintenance etc.

Some of the girls will be doing nothing but open new products and get them priced and ready to go out on the floor.

Off to market to order even more to keep the flow of product coming too!

We are super excited about how this is all going, and are excited to see what the New Year will bring to

Grandiflora Home and Garden

&

Grandiflora HOME

online as well!

Speaking of which, we are also working diligently to find new products for the online shop.

REMEMBER,

there is often a different selection in the online shop as there is in the physical store.

If you are local, you can choose free in store local pick-up with a 2 day wait

(to allow time for funds transfer and the pulling of merchandise)

We are so excited to offer two ways to shop Grandiflora's Goodness!

Keep us in mind for all your new projects and home decor changes in 2012.

We are happy to serve you in any capacity that we can!

Cheers to the New Year,

may you be richly blessed by all that matters most!

:)

The Grandiflora Girls