The Posie Shoppe Floral & Event Design

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!