The Posie Shoppe Floral & Event Design

Random acts of floral kindness

2009-05-05T11:57:00.000-07:00

Our supplier sent us an extra box of roses by mistake. That sounds wonderful, but we have more flowers coming in and we won't have room to close the cooler doors soon!

We sent out an email inviting you to stop in and pick up a wrapped dozen roses to give away as you saw fit. Give one to a Mom who's away from her kids, show a teacher your appreciation or just lift someone's spirits. We know you are wonderful and caring people and you will help us shower our community with love!

The fine print: we need to send these out by Wednesday, so please stop in today (5/5) or tomorrow(5/6). We do have a limited supply, so when they are gone, they are gone... and we will have a LOT of happy people around us!

Practice a random act of kindness today, then tell us about it by leaving a comment here or on our facebook page. Thanks... we appreciate you!

Mother's Day is May 9th!

2009-05-04T15:32:00.000-07:00

Spring means new life, new growth and a new chance to thank Mom for all she's done for you. Show her your appreciation with a spring bouquet!
New this year, we are offering a "refill coupon" with select bouquets. Add this option to your order and she can bring back her vase later to be refilled with the freshest seasonal flowers we have. What better way to keep thanking her in the days and weeks to come?
The refill coupon is available with the "Mom's Garden Bouquet",
"Glorious Spring Bouquet",
"A Mother's Love Bouquet"
and "Forever Mom Bouquet".

The refill bouquet will be made with our freshest seasonal flowers. It may not match original arrangement, but we promise that it will be beautiful! Spoil your Mom this year!

Coloring contest winners

2009-04-11T16:29:00.001-07:00

Congratulations to the winners of our Easter coloring contest!

Jessica, our under 5 winner, Hayden, our 5-9 year old winner, and Haley, our 10-12 year old winner each won a Webkinz Persian Cat just in time for Easter.

Thanks for sharing your pictures with us!

Prineville Easter Scavenger Hunt

2009-04-08T14:13:00.000-07:00

Join The Posie Shoppe and other Prineville retailers for a fun Easter Scavenger Hunt!

Saturday, April 11th 10 am - 4 pm

Stop by and pick up a map, (or download the map here) then visit participating retailers to collect scavenger hunt items. When you're done, swing back by The Posie Shoppe to pick up your prize!

Collect 6 items for a prize from group A
Collect 10 items for a prize from group B
Collect all 12 items for a prize from group C

* Offer good while prizes last.

See you Saturday!

Michelle McMichael
The Posie Shoppe

P.S. Remember to order your centerpiece for your Easter Celebration! Visit our website for some fresh ideas.

Easter Coloring Contest

2009-03-30T15:59:00.000-07:00

Hey kids!

Stop by the Posie Shoppe this week or next and pick up a coloring sheet for our Easter Coloring Contest.

We will have three age categories: Under 5, 5-9 and 10 to 12 years. One person from each category will win a Webkinz from the Posie Shoppe!

Winners will be chosen at random. Entries must be returned by Saturday, April 11th at 4 pm.

Watch for details on our super-fun Easter scavenger hunt happening that same day!

Central Oregon Wedding Showcase

2009-03-09T17:10:00.000-07:00

What a fabulous time we had at the wedding showcase at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds in Redmond!

If you didn't get to attend in person, you can see a video here.

For our booth we decided to focus on bridal bouquets, with an inspiration board for each. We had SO many ideas, but only room for 10 bouquets, so here's what we chose to showcase!

Vibrant yellow was forecast last year as a hot color for 2009 weddings. That proved true in our booth, where our yellow bouquets were a huge hit. The hot pink and yellow bouquet features yellow tulips and lilies accented with hot pink gloriosa lilies. The handle is a hot pink sisal cone.

The other yellow bouquet is made up of gorgeous yellow mini callas and lime sherbet cymbidium orchid blooms over a base of yellow carnations. A fun lime eyelash ribbon trims the yellow satin handle wrap.

Another trend continuing from last year is bling. We love the sparkle! This all white ultra-glam bouquet features roses, dendrobium orchids and stephanotis with sparkling rhinestone accents. More dendrobium blooms are strung into a garland that drips off the sides of the bouquet, ending in a crystal drop. The silver angelhair handle is finished by a pair of crystal rose brooches for the ultimate vintage glam.

The bling continues with our black and white calla lily bouquet. Always a favorite, this collection of calla lilies is wrapped in black satin and finished with a square rhinestone buckle. More rhinestones sparkle on the callas themselves. So chic!

This year grey starts to challenge chocolate as the new neutral favorite. This bouquet of lavender "Cool Water" roses is accented with silvery grey berzillia balls... yes, they are really a fresh product! The silver is carried through to the lamb's ear and handmade silver wire leaves that surround the bouquet. While on-trend and fashion forward, this bouquet still echoes romance.

Pink, orange and lime green continues to be a popular combination. The contrasting colors really pop when they play off each other. This juicy combination of ranunculus, "Voodoo" roses, nerine lilies and "Midori" antherium caught many admiring glances at the showcase.

Another dramatic, vibrant color combination is showcased in this bouquet of composite roses. Burgundy, red, orange and yellow roses are deconstructed and reconstructed into fantasy roses. Handmade copper wire ribbons swirl through and around this bouquet, which is based with a cloud of copper wire.

Natural, organic feeling bouquets are always Central Oregon favorites. This beautiful, textural bouquet features echiveria succulents, ranunculus, hydrangea and leucodendron. The bouquet is built on a willow armature and is accented with tiny pods, cones and bits of mosses. Fern curls add interest while aralia leaves form the base. Perfect for the green girl!

Cascade bouquets have been making a comeback in the last few years. Our take on the "new" cascade is this long, flowing bouquet of orchids. Phalaenopsis orchids combine with dendrobium orchids to form the base of this bouquet, which is extended with steelgrass woven and threaded with stephanotis blooms. Wire accented with crystals threads through the bouquet and sparkles along with the crystals in the stephanotis blooms.

The last bouquet was truly awe-inspiring. A rich combination of "Opium" and "Black Bacarra" roses with black mini calla lilies was accented with deep red rhinestones and black feathers. The handle was formed using red-dyed pheasant feathers. Ooh la la!

Finally, the centerpiece of our display was a calla lily tower topped by a luscious sphere of roses. The tower was finished with a "belt" of black satin with a large square rhinestone buckle. This 3 foot tall design was a showstopper, with lots of "How did you DO that?" comments. So much fun!

Remember, if you want to see more of our wedding work, you can always stop by our website and browse through our portfolio. Enjoy!

Wrapping up our holiday open house

2008-11-08T09:39:00.000-08:00

Wow -- last night was ladies night and did we ever have FUN!

It was wonderful to have so many of our friends and customers in the shop helping us celebrate with wine, great food and fabulous shopping. I would love to post photos here, but we were way to busy to take any!

I do have photos of our "bouquet of the day" arrangements that we gave away all week, along with the names of the lucky winners. We will be drawing later today (Sat. Nov. 8th) for our grand prize of a year of flowers. Come on down before 4pm if you haven't signed up yet!

Tuesday's bouquet was a textural feast for the eyes!
Tana designed this bouquet of fall flowers including rover mums, oncidium orchids, wheat and dracena foliage. She also included permanent berries, grasses and leaves around a microbeaded permanent pumpkin. The recycled paper container is a great "green" option and is made right here in Oregon! Pat Yancey was the winner of this bouquet.

Wednesday's bouquet was a classic combination of red roses and cymbidium orchids designed by Michelle.
Details such as red-twig dogwood, dracaena foliage and aralia leaves provide the lines for this design. The design is based with red roses that bring out the red in the throats of the orchid blooms and pale green carnations that provide a splash of light to separate the leaves. Brock Smith, from California, was in Prineville visiting relatives and won this bouquet. Quite a gift to leave as a thank you!

Thursday's bouquet was a fun frolic in the snow designed by Carol.
Carol's fun designs featuring keepsake items are always customer favorites. This design showcases a fun jingle bell snowman ornament in "mid-jump" with his skis. Carol echoed the jewel tones of the snowman with lime green athos poms, blue belladonna delphinium and purple carnations. Glittery, frosted evergreens and berries finish this merry and bright Christmas bouquet, which was won by Diane Kenny.

Friday's bouquet was a beautiful fall arrangement in purples and greens by Lyn.
An ornamental kale is showcased in the center of this design. Lyn then repeated the various colors in the kale with the purple liatris, pink heather and chartreuse bells of ireland. The hot pink gerbera daisies provide a punch of color at the base. Proof that "fall colors" don't have to be orange and brown! Barbara Coffelt was the winner of this design.

Congratulations to all the daily bouquet winners. We'll soon be posting the winner of our year of flowers drawing as well!

Monday's winner of the daily arrangement

2008-11-04T21:51:00.000-08:00

As previously posted, we are giving away an arrangement every day during our week-long holiday open house. Our designers look forward to this week, because they are told "knock yourself out!"... we let them create whatever they desire to delight one of our lucky customers.

Monday's arrangement was created by Gena. Gena loves structures in design and often builds armatures and other architectural elements for her designs. She saw a version of this at a design show and instantly decided to create something similar for the open house.

The lucky customer who received this creation is Jo Hoppe, a teacher at Ochoco Elementary. It is so fitting that Jo's name was drawn, as she LOVES flowers and often drops by the shop to purchase flowers for herself to enjoy. Now Mrs. Hoppe and her 3rd grade students at Ochoco Elementary will be enjoying Gena's design! Will you be next?

Christmas is coming early to downtown Prineville!

2008-11-04T21:42:00.000-08:00

We are joining together with other downtown merchants to host our holiday open house sale!

Starting Monday, November 3rd we will have our trees trimmed and our halls decked... and we'll be ready to help you with yours. We will have 20% off everything in the store for the whole week. We'll also be giving away an arrangement every day. You just have to come in and sign up!

Together with Riches & Rags, Tasz Fun Living and The Quilt Shack, we will also host a "Ladies Night" event on Friday November 7th. All stores will be open until 8 pm, everything will be at least 20% off storewide and we will have drinks and refreshments. Come on down and join the party!

Be sure to also sign up for our grand prize drawing, a year of flowers! We will draw for our grand prize on Saturday afternoon. You don't have to be present to win, but you do have to stop by and sign up!

Hope to see you soon at the best holiday party in town!

Our new candle line -- Tyler!

2008-09-24T23:23:00.000-07:00

For a variety of reasons, we found ourselves this summer searching for a new scented candle line to bring in to the shop. While there is certainly no shortage of great smelling candles out there, we were looking for something extra special. Happily, we found that in Tyler Candle Company!The Tyler candles are poured in heavy glass jars and have metal lids (with a great leopard print on them!) and are available in three sizes. We also carry adorable boxed votives. Many, but not all, of the fragrances are shown here in our candle hutch. The fragrances are more sophisticated, almost perfume-y, and are FABULOUS! With names like High Maintenance, Diva, Girly Girl, Cowboy and VIP how can you really go wrong?We currently have regular line and fall line scents in the store, with holiday (winter) scents coming soon. We have done several of our popular "candle with flowers" arrangements and I wanted to share a recent one we did ... fall flowers on the 11 oz. "pumpkin spice" candle. This unique gift sells for $39.95.

So many of our customers have been delighted with them and tell us that this has already been their long-standing favorite candle. Sorry it took us so long to catch up with you!

Stop by soon and let us share our favorite scents with you. We know you'll be glad you did!

Are you "Tough Enough To Wear Pink?"

2008-06-23T14:46:00.000-07:00

It’s rodeo time in Prineville and some of the country’s toughest cowboys are headed into town. But come Saturday night, we’ll see how tough everyone really is when the Crooked River Roundup and Central Oregon Association of Realtors bring the “Tough Enough To Wear Pink” program back to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer. Here at the Posie Shoppe, we're joining in to extend the campaign all week long!

We have pledged to donate 10% of our sales during rodeo week – Monday, June 23rd through Saturday, June 28th – to the Crooked River Roundup’s “Tough Enough To Wear Pink” program. In addition, we have designed a special "Tough Enough" bouquet featuring pink roses just for this week. We will donate $10 for every bouquet sold, which will be featured in the shop and on the website.

Judy Holliday (co-owner of The Posie Shoppe) came up with the idea of the benefit week. We always try to support the rodeo and really celebrate rodeo week. But this year, we wanted to do something a little different. She was delivering a bouquet for a cancer benefit and suddenly remembered the “Tough Enough To Wear Pink” campaign. We knew that we could get involved in a new way, and hopefully raise awareness and funds for this great cause.

According to Hank Simmons, President of the Crooked River Roundup Board, all the funds raised during the “Tough Enough To Wear Pink” campaign will stay in Prineville. The money will be donated to Pioneer Memorial Hospital to help fund breast exams for those who cannot afford them, along with helping with transportation costs to the breast cancer center in Bend. In addition, all the funds raised at the Crooked River Roundup will be matched by Wrangler in a donation to the American Cancer Society to fund research at the national level.

“Tough Enough To Wear Pink” night will be Saturday, June 28th at the Crooked River Roundup. Everyone from participants to spectators are encouraged to show their support by wearing pink. Pink merchandise will be available for purchase at the Farmer's Market in downtown Prineville Saturday after the parade.

Tough Enough To Wear Pink was created by entrepreneur and breast cancer survivor Terry Wheatley to bring the sport of professional rodeo and the entire western community together to rally against breast cancer. Since its inception in 2004, TETWP™ has empowered rodeos in the U.S. and Canada to focus attention on the need for a cure and raise over $2 million dollars for breast cancer charities, much of which stays right in the community. The grassroots movement has inspired other sports communities to mount their own TETWP™ campaigns, spreading a message of hope and support that reaches beyond the rodeo arena to competitors, families and fans across America. For more information on how to help, visit www.toughenoughtowearpink.com.

We hope you will join us, get involved, send a bouquet and dress in Pink this Saturday!

Winter Formal time for Crook County High School

2008-02-03T23:44:00.000-08:00

The holidays are behind us, and spring is still months away. Where's a great excuse to get all dressed up when you need one?

If you're a high school student, you're in luck... Winter Formal is here!

While it's not as exciting as seeing the kids all dressed up, we thought you'd enjoy seeing a few of our favorite corsages from this year's collection.

This corsage was made for Lacey Corak, who is completing her senior project with us. She was wearing a cream and gold brocade gown with a vintage hollywood feel. Cream satin ribbon was accented by gold braid, taupe sheer and pearl circlets. Miniature whire roses and cymbidium orchids were accented with brown fern curls.

The person who ordered this corsage asked for "something really fun to go with a black dress". Now that gives us a lot of creative freedom... everything goes with black! We decided on a bright combination of orange spray roses and green mini spider mums. These were accented with black feather puffs, silver bullion wire and braided black and white ribbon.

We love having the chance to custom design little pieces of floral art to complement beautiful dresses and striking suits. It's so fun to see the new styles and colors for the dresses. Black is always popular, but this year saw it's share of teal blue, polka dots and bright color too! For the young men, pinstriped zoot suits came roaring back.

A black and teal dress inspired this cymbidium orchid corsage. Teal gems sparkled on the orchid petals, while the color was echoed in the ribbon below. The corsage attached to the wrist on a feathered snap bracelet, giving an elegant yet fun look.

Brown was popular again this year. Pink and brown is a wonderful combination and it really shows in this fresh feeling corsage. Mimi Eden spray roses are a favorite of ours because they open and hold like tiny peonies. The coloring is out of this world, with a dark pink center fading through blush to white outer petals. Lime green hypericum berries provide a punch of contrast. The roses and berries swim in a sea of sheer and satin chocolate ribbon.

We pride ourselves in the fact that no two corsages and boutonnieres are alike. We would love to show more. If any student would like to share their winter formal photos, please bring them into the shop. We would love to post them on the blog!

Our new wedding site is finished!

2008-01-22T11:08:00.001-08:00

After being "under construction" for many months, our new wedding and event website is finally complete.

We have included many features that we hope will be useful to you, including a downloadable copy of our brochure, a very cool wedding flower cost calculator and a form to start the free consultation process.

We also have portfolios of our own designs as well as designs showcased at floral industry shows we have attended and photos from the book "Wedding Style".

We hope that our free wedding classifieds section will provide a place for former brides to sell items used at their weddings, and brides-to-be to find inexpensive items to complete their events. No professionals here, just brides helping brides!

Lastly, we have slideshows of real Central Oregon weddings that we have been involved with. Weddings held in Prineville, Redmond and Bend are shown with photos provided by brides and their photographers.

Take a look, test drive the tools and let us know what you think!

Christmas 2007 Designs

2007-12-29T10:00:00.000-08:00

Many of our customers order from our website, and many of you order our "Posie Shoppe Exclusives". Thank you for that!

We try to make sure that the arrangements we design and put on the website will reflect the style that you are looking for. But, not all of our custom designs can be placed on the website... maybe they are too specialized, they are designed too late in the season, or some other reason.

With that in mind, we thought you might enjoy seeing some of the custom designs that we did this past Christmas season!

This design features amaryllis, cymbidium orchids, calla lillies, hybrid lillies, roses and carnations in a fiberglass bowl. Custom designed for one of our favorite cusomers.

This design features green spider mums, roses and bells of ireland mixed with copper, gold and brown permanent items. "Merry Christmas" is spelled out in gold on an aspidistra leaf. Designed for the annual Hospice Auction fundraiser, where we donate "A year of flowers" to the auction.

This design features red roses and white dendrobium orchids arranged pave style with white bleached branches and permanent red berries. This was created for our annual holiday open house as one of the arrangements given away to our customers.

This centerpiece features spray roses, button chrysanthemums, silver sprayed beargrass and christmas ornaments. It was designed for a customer who loves the whimsical and unusual.

This elegant vased arrangement features oriental lilies, roses, ornamental kale, tuberose, stock and larkspur. It stood approximately 3 feet tall and was designed as a sympathy arrangement.

Feel free to call us with your unusual requests. We love to create custom designs!

Welcome to the Posie Shoppe blog!

2007-12-04T23:22:00.000-08:00

We are so excited to share our new blog with you!

We will be posting general flower information, wedding flower information, photos, happenings at the shop, and anything else we find particularly interesting. We look forward to hearing what you find particularly interesting, too....

Please be sure to let us know if there's anything you'd really like to see here. Because we know, it's not ALWAYS all about us. In fact, it's usually about you.

As you know, you can also find more information on our retail website.

Thanks for stopping by!