Christmas Wedding Flowers

Leading up to Christmas is filled with all sorts of activities, organizing food, presents, flowers, holiday accommodation. Is the spare room ready for guests? Yes it is chaotic and the list is endless.

Yet it can be exhilarating when you and your partner decide to marry at Christmas.

Whether it be a winter wonderland wedding or get away to the tropics. This is a time when your wedding will make a huge impact on family and friends regardless of the destination.

It's Christmas time, a time for goodwill towards all men. A wedding to top it off always brings added joy.

Wedding flowers at Christmas during winter are gorgeous. Perfect time for tulips, hyacinths, freesias, and so on. A winter wonderland theme is perfect to entertain your guests with at Christmas time if your in the Northern Hemisphere.

For those considering a tropical Christmas wedding the season swings to the vibrant colored lilies and orchids, roses and a rainbow of colors in a large range of florist blooms to choose from. Tropical beach wedding on the sunny shores are breath taking with frangipani or orchids to dance in your hair.

Florist flowers are chosen specifically for their longevity,they are grown in hot houses to suit all seasons.

Wedding flowers are special no matter the season nor the choice of flower, it is always smart to know when your choice of bloom is in season,whether it be a Christmas wedding or a tropical beach wedding. Seek advice and know what is in season for your wedding to save any disappointment.

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Dream Destination Wedding in a Puerto Vallarta Villa

Every woman dreams of her wedding at some exotic destination with beautiful white sand beaches, pristine clear waters, magnificent Villa and surrounded by her close ones. If you thought this is just a dream then you could not be more wrong. You can have your wedding with great style and sophistication in a luxury Villa in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Now, you could have your Wedding in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on while sand beaches or in a Luxury rental Villa or on beautiful grounds. You can choose a traditional wedding with a white dress, long veil, train, lots of exotic flowers and vows or you can opt for a simple yet elegant look with a slip dress. The entire Villa Rentals in Mexico can be yours and share this most important day in your life with your friends, relatives to share the joy and happiness of your wedding.

A private Luxury rental vacation Villa in Puerto Vallarta Mexico is equipped with all amenities and features. If you thought a luxury Villa on rent will be very extravagant then you will be surprised on how affordable rental vacation villas are in Mexico. Here superb villas with ever caring and competent attendants and chefs come at very economical prices. The atmosphere in Puerto Vallarta is very relaxed and you will enjoy a carefree vacation in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. A lifelong memory of your destination wedding is so close to your hands.

Wedding planner will take care of all arrangements and you will have to just sit back and soak the atmosphere and enjoy once in a life time moment with your loved ones sharing your most important day in the intimate luxury of a villa in Mexico.

If you want to fulfill your childhood dream of a wedding by the Oceanside, come to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and make your dream comes true!

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Unique Christmas flowers at 1-800-flowers!!

Christmas flowers are unique holiday gift. They can convey messages better than words. Flower bouquets carry your feeling when given to someone special. Sending Christmas flowers to loved one is a gift sure to please. It will bring happiness and joy to her. A Christmas flower arrangement can also add extra touch to any festive decorations. Browse 1-800-Flowers store for beautiful flowers.

Frosty The Snow Plant: Frosty the snow plant is perfect way to celebrate your Christmas. It features fresh 4" white campanula arrives budding and ready to bloom to ensure lasting beauty. Measurement of bouquet is 8"H. Send this flower arrangement to your loved ones to make them more happy. Flowers are arranged in a red and white ceramic snowman planter. Measurement of planter is 4"H x 5.5"D. Get this beautiful item for $34.99.
Holiday Star: This beautiful flower arrangement includes adorable roses, carnations, star of bethlehem, cushion poms, assorted holiday greens and variegated holly. It is designed by florists in a festive, square red tin with tree cut-out and white liner, which is 5"H x 5"W x 5"L in measurement. Colors and varieties may vary. It is designed in a stylish cut-out tin that can later be used as a holiday candle shade. Get this beautiful flower arrangement for $59.99.
Winter Lily Bouquet: This is a gorgeous gift of timeless beauty. Small 7-stem bouquet includes four red asiatic lilies and three white asiatic lilies. Lilies arrive in bud form and will open to full bloom in 3-4 days to provide lasting beauty. This bouquet is shipped overnight to ensure freshness. This Stunning gold-matte finished glass vase with sparkling ornament hanger for an additional $19.99, and vase measurement is 8.75"H x 5"D. Now turns your holiday celebration into an ultra-fancy affair. Get this item for $54.98.
Make your Christmas shopping more enjoyable by using 1-800-Flowers Coupons.

Best Christmas Song

• The Christmas Song
• The Twelve Days of Christmas
• Winter Wonderland
• Auld Lang Syne
• All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
• Christmas is coming
• Have yourself a merry little Christmas
• Jingle Bells
• We wish you a Merry Christmas
• White Christmas
• Let it Snow
• Little Drummer Boy
• Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer

Bible Explorer

Since we’re heading into the Christmas season, I thought you might like to know about this FREE piece of software for PC or Mac users. It’s called Bible Explorer and is a sweet study tool. It comes with over 200 free Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, and more.The software includes the American Standard Version (ASV), New International Version (NIV), New American Standard Bible (NASB) Bundle, King James Version (KJV), and the Bible in Basic English (BBE), just to list a few.

It doesn’t matter whether you follow the Catholic, Church of Christ, Dispensational, Lutheran, Mainline, Pentecostal, Puritan, Reformed, or Wesleyan doctrine, there is study material to help you out. There are also study aids written from Jewish Christian perspectives.

I can think of oodles of people who may enjoy this as a gift including ministers, church leaders, grandma (who can’t see well), parents, and kids, and the list goes on. Part of the broad range appeal is due to the special libraries you can add according to your needs. For example, there is a library for preachers and discipleships, etc .

There are just so many features and possibilities with this software, I can’t list them all. To find out if this software is a good fit for your needs, you can click here to discover more about Bible Explorer.

Might Need A New Program

So in a effort to ensure that we would have a sold out class the day after Thanksgiving Randy booked one of my Champagne events, these classes are always the first to fill up, sell out and have been the most successful in terms of sales, so I too thought it was a good idea….but we are starting to have, well and issue. So we can seat, (comfortably) around 30-35 people for one of our classes, many more than that and it can get pretty cramped not to mention it is harder to control the crowd, so I have always taken 30 for the Champagne events….a few glasses of bubbles and the crowd gets a little um, boisterous, so 30 seemed to be the magic number for me.. The class this last Friday sold out long ago, that’s all good right…yeah except for one thing.

The format of my bubble events is super relaxed, I don’t pound a bunch of, “how Champagne is made” or history of the estates down people’s throats, I let the wines do most of the talking and I interject with bits of information and walk around the tables making myself available for any and all questions. I talk briefly about the wines before each flight but for the most part the crowd kind of does their own thing. This format has been working for me for years, people like the chill feel of it and end up chatting with their neighbors, making new friends and having a great time…I love that, have always loved that but, as I checked the enrollment sheet for the class this Friday I saw what I have been noticing for the past few…large parties, really large parties and a long ass waiting list with more large parties.



Now normally this would not be a problem, full seats are full seats, but what has begun happing is the same groups are showing up, bringing their friends, (and a picnic this last time) and while one member of the group, (usually the one that makes the reservation) may buy a bottle or two, the rest of the group is not…problem. I have people on a waiting list that want to attend but my seats are full with people having a private party, I appreciate that they like my events and all but the goal is to move some wine, turn people onto things they have never tasted and like sell some too. Well these groups are starting to be a problem, even filling a cancellation is a problem, 4 people cancel and I look to the waiting list and it’s all groups of 5 or more…argh!

The class this Friday was full of the regular suspects, (two large parties in particular) and we had 2 no shows, (just so happens they are my biggest Champagne buyers as well) so the class really was not all that successful, sure we filled seats, sure my core group of ardent supporters bought some Champagne, we sold over three thousand dollars worth of wine, but wrestling with the noise from the private parties and having that loud group not buy any wine, well it told me that I might need a change in my program.



The first suggestion was not taking reservations for groups larger than 4, well that won’t work because they will all just make separate reservations…oh and what a nightmare when they all arrive and tell us that they want to sit together, nope that’s out. The second was to say the class was sold out when these parties call, well I am not about to do that, I’m not lying. So aside from pulling these people aside and telling them, “I know you like these classes, I’m flattered, I really am but if you wish for them to continue we need the seats filled with people that may actually buy wine”…thinking that might just go over like a fart in church. No what I think I am going to do for the time being is take 45 reservations for all the Champagne classes, sounds rather daunting to me personally, (all those eyes on me at one time…makes me feel kinda barfy just thinking about it) but I’m at a bit of a loss, I need more bubble lovers to support and grow my department, the little private parties just aint gonna make that happen.

All that being said, the class was still fun, (another problem with the party goers, they tend to want to stay. They just sit there while we are cleaning up around them. No offence folks but we are not at a party, we’re working and we would like our evening to end before like 11:00 PM and stuff) those ardent supporters, well they stayed to help me clean and empty the bits of leftover Champagne before convincing me to go to a bar and have a few drinks…weak, Champagne makes me weak. The best part of the night was as it should have been, the wines, the wines were fucking, (sorry Thomas) fantastic!

Featured Wines

NV Jose Dhondt, ($59.99) I was the odd man out on this wine, I loved it…always love it but thought the wine that I poured next to it was better, (Pierre Peters) but it was still lovely. Deeply roasted, tons of apple and a delicate mousse.



NV Pierre Peters, ($52.99) this wine can give me goosebumps. So savory and almost salty, sea-kissed, with little bits of citrus and toast. This wine begs for oysters and after a bottle of it with oysters…well begging is likely.

NV Bruno Gobillard, ($76.99) a wine that spun my head at a Champagne trade event and one that I was dying to wrap my palate around again. Subtle, very fine bead, delicate graham cracker, apple skin and cream…rich and supple but refined, think muscular legs beneath lace.



1999 Guy de Chassey, ($79.99) I had recently sent this bottle to someone whose palate I am dying to get to know, wanted their take on it, to see if it flipped their switch like it did mine, don’t think it did but putting the glass to my nose that night…flipped me again. I taste so much Champagne that when I taste one that is so different it just grabs me, this wine…well it shook me with both hands, and I dug it. Sexy as hell, full of fragrant white flowers, pears, green herbs and spice. The palate is long, really long and the wine just kept getting better and more expressive as it warmed I the glass. I went back at the end of the night to re-taste from the open, un-refrigerated bottle…damn, giving me little shivers just thinking about it.

NV RH Coutier Brut, ($39.99) I will confess a soft spot for this wine. The importer brought a bottle to dinner one night and asked me if he should consider bringing it in, um…flattering much?! Well I gave him a giant, “hells yeah” and now it’s here. I love the richness, texture and weight of this wine, and at this price…stoopid, it’s a stoopid value. Baked fruit, warm bread and butter with a long Pinot rich finish.



NV Camille Saves Carte Blanche, ($56.99) another Pinot rich bubbly, full of red fruit, toast and cream. Lovely weight and a long toasty finish. Powerful enough to hold up to food but pretty sublime all on its own.

NV Vve Fourny Brut Rose, ($45.99) you know, there is always one wine that gets trounced, this was it. I think after all those Pinot based, powerful wines this pretty “little” wine just got clobbered. Gentle wild strawberry on the nose with bits of pepper and a more cooked berry thing on the palate, very pretty, very clean and a perfect little starter wine.

NV H. Billiot Brut, ($56.99) um, love it. Always love it. Big cooked apple flavors, tons of toasted bread and a mouth feel that is rich and assertive. Slutty, I always call the wines from Billiot slutty and by that I mean there are no hidden corners, the wine is all out there in its curvy, sexy nakedness…rawr.

NV Rene Geoffroy Brut Rose, ($63.99) oaky, I’m fessing up here, I didn’t like this wine at all that night. I found it stinky, like someone just lit a match and the palate was completely shut down. Might just be a phase, I’ve had and adored this wine in the past but that night…



NV Camille Saves Brut Rose, ($72.99) sexy, this wine is ridiculously sexy. Palate staining texture, cooked black cherries and cream…drinks more like a Burgundy than Champagne but it has all those sassy little bubbles….damn.

We also poured the H. Billiot Cuvee Julie but seeing as I just wrote that up in my last post I will spare you the rerun….it still makes me want to do naughty things, still a remarkable wine, still delicious.

Thanks to all that attended, I think at least one of you read this silly blog. Thanks for the after tasting drinks, um…kisses and bites on my neck, you people are totally crazy and I adore you for it. Be prepared for a much different looking, (in terms of size) but still great tasting, Champagne event in the New Year.

November 2009 favourites

That's another month over and done with! Next time I post a monthly favourites, it'll be the last one of 2009! I'll be glad to see the back of this year to be honest, but let's not get ahead of ourselves - Christmas isn't even here yet!! Things that I've been loving during November:

Benefit Creaseless Cream Eyeshadow - Samba-dy Loves me

I love this peachy gold shadow. It's perfect as a base or just to add a bit of warmth to your lids when you want a quick and simple look. My favourite way to wear it is to apply it to the lid only (not beyond the crease) with some MAC's Woodwinked packed on top then blended out with MAC's Retrospeck. It makes Woodwinked look more golden and warm. Beautiful! Which brings me to my next two favourites...

MAC eyeshadows - Woodwinked and Retrospeck

It's such a simple look and is perfect for when you want an extra half hour in your warm and cosy bed because it's so quick! I know lots of people hate Retrospeck because of it's chunky Lustre texture, but I've never had any problems with it. I use it with a tapered blending brush (MAC's 226) so maybe that helps?

Coconut Oil

I'm doing a great big blog post on this soon so I won't go into too much detail here, but I have been loving me some coconut oil this month. It is such a versatile product and I can't believe I haven't been using more of it sooner! My favourite way to use it at the moment is as an eye make up remover :)

Ped Egg

I hate feet so I'm not going to indulge in some before and after photos, but the Ped Egg is an AMAZING product. I have (had) horrendous cracked skin on my heels, and they cracked so much that it was painful to walk. I'm on my feet 9 hours a day in work, so to suffer in silence was not an option - something needed to be done! Cue the Ped Egg. I use it after every bath or shower and my feet are soft and smooth again. Hoorah!

Paul Mitchell's Thicken Up

I've run out of my beloved hair serum, so have been trying to use up some things that I've got to tame my tresses. This has been a life saver! It somehow manages to give me volume, and make my hair look sleek and shiny. I just apply a tiny little but of this from root to tip on damp hair and dry/style it as usual. It seems to control my frizz in this damn awful weather too, which can only be a good thing! I love Paul Mitchell products.

And something non-beauty related... the return of GAVIN & STACEY! Yay!! I've waited the whole of November for the new (and last *sniff*) series to start, and the opening episode didn't disappoint. Oh... Doris... Where's the salad?! I really hope it's a happy ending, with Nessa and Smithy living happily ever after. In Barry of course, since I'm a Welshy!

Link me up to your favourites! :) xx

The Many Faces of Santa

The Christmas decorations are going up and Ithought I'd join in on Vintage Christmas Monday hosted by Anything Goes Here.

For my first Monday I'm sharing my beloved Santa Mug Collection. At last count I now have 19 mugs and one pitcher and I'm not done collecting yet. ;)

This year they are sitting on my long mantle shelf and they barely fit!

There are so many faces of Santa.....like when he winks.......

....his eyes are closed......

....the pitcher....

...which I found at the thrift store for $2!.....

...this year I found 2 like the one of the very end on the right....just finished a bit differently....

...winking Santa with a sparkly rhinestone eye.....

...and there's even an itty bitty one. Several of them are all alike too as you can see, but they each seem to have their own personality.

I hope you've enjoyed the many faces of Santa and don't forget to check out the other wonderful Christmas bloggings for Vintage Christmas Monday's.

Holiday Boutique is now OPEN!

Welcome one and all! Come check out the FUN!
U CREATE begins today and ends December 7th!
Great deals with unique gifts! Look for the Christmas Stocking by Hall or Nothing!

Holiday Boutique is now OPEN!

Welcome one and all! Come check out the FUN!
U CREATE begins today and ends December 7th!
Great deals with unique gifts! Look for the Christmas Stocking by Hall or Nothing!

The Cards That Give Twice

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Seeds of Hope

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Another Bathroom Post

Since I posted pictures of my guest room downstairs, I figured I would also show you my bathroom that goes with it. I don't like it as well as my upstairs bathroom, but then again, this is in the BASEMENT.
Shower curtain and bathmat are from TJMaxx.

The bird picture I found at Hobby Lobby and framed it in a Walmart $5 frame and a mat I had lying around.
My go-to decorating tip. Use vacation souvenirs! We always collect sand/shells/rocks and put them in a Mason Jar and label the top. These puppies are FREE decorations and it's a great reminder of your past trips.

Victor would you like to try on this skirt?

Hey all you bloggers,
thank you all for waiting patiently for me to write my new post.I was completely blank I had nothing to write about until Laura Fygi came to town.The old musical Victor Victoria came with a twist to Singapore Laura Fygi plays Victoria a girl only armed with determination and a phenomenal voice Victoria goes to London with a dream to become a singer in coincidence she meets a former singer who convinces her to pretend to be a man to pretend to be a woman.In France if you were gay it was completely natural.She becomes the toast of the town and always gets a roaring applause but then A "King" of many industries falls in love with her and of course someone as succesfull as that would not want to be caught with a gay right so will Victoria give up her fame or will she give up true love?Go catch this play it's good two thumbs up!Until the next post!

xoxo
Simply me