Promises kept...MY Blog is UP!! :]

I am so excited about this. Finally my own page. Well, Floral Compliments is hitting the ground running for 10! I'm skipping the 20- and the (')10 and I'm just calling it 10.

My cell phone starts off my day with it's alarm going off @ 5 a.m., the coffee is on and I'm designing, creating, praying and handling a whole new day's business. So much is going on. Orders to fill, sending samples to vendors all over the US. Just this past week I've sent out my work to Nebraska, California and Indiana. I'm following up on the news articles written about my allergy free solutions for people allergic to polyester, rayon and viscose. Updating my website: floralcompliments.net, keeping the products fresh and the information relevant also fits into the day.

Unfortunately, the latest photos taken of my work were all double exposed and the pieces were already shipped out so this week also had some bad spots, too. But on the upside of that, the pieces will be photographed by the vendors they were promised to and uploaded to their sites/blogs.

My work is really getting around, too, and not just through cyberspace. Occansey Designs will be posting my pieces on their site, (my flowers are attached to her veils and more flowers were sent out separate as fascinators, too). Once the pieces are photographed they will be shipped out to l'Evento Event Resource Boutique in Carmel, Indiana. In l'Evento I will also have an 8" x 8" portfolio that will be full of photographs of my work. Until I receive thus pictures taken by the generous vendors that I am working with, the photos for the portfolio will only be what is already on my site: floralcompliments.net.

This was so terribly disappointing that (my) pictures did not come out. The pieces I photographed are: The Very Victorian Ivory veil, 2 bird cage veils and another long veil that has a white flower with a beaded center and little buds (~1/2" long) on the sides. Explaining this feels like I'm drawing on a cave wall...the sentiment is there but it doesn't get the point across--really. Photos are everything in the bridal business. There is also 6 or 7 fascinators "out there" that I'm waiting to have photographed. Occansey Bridal has them. Kathy will get them photographed in the next week or two and then she will take the entire package of my pieces (the 4 veils and 6 or 7 fascinators) and send them off to l'Evento Event Resource Boutique for me.

Between yesterday and today I did here from every one of these vendors that the packages arrived and they were very happy with my work. I am very happy to hear this since I created everything sent to them without much of any input from them on what each vendor was looking to get from me. They have an idea of my work and just left the designing up to me. Whew! I don't mind flying blind, but it felt more like guess work to create something that was born from..."make me something I will like." In this industry, to hear that, (bear with my constant metaphors) is to the likes of the new chef of a King. If they like the food you make, you live. If " 'day "no-like'a'" you die. You die, and dat eez eet." Okay'a - 'day ly'ka'. I l'eev.

Well, this blog is here to be informative to the bride who is looking for the Vintage and Victorian Look. I do a lot of research on this subject and although there is more and more that is still possible to learn everyday I will be starting with the basics of the look and building on to it from there.

I very much appreciate comments from all of you. If there are some facts that you could also contribute please feel free to do that as well. To back up the information as fact it would be very helpful if the source of the information is sited. I will be doing the same. I will be adding sketches to the blog as well. Sometimes this will be done because the idea can be separated from the rest of the picture and left on it's own to be less complicated.

I will be adding posts from other blogs and of course siting sources of these and/or the information that I am sharing with you.

So, today I publish this and more will be posted everyday. I hope you enjoy this blog of mine, which is somewhat of a diary of my business's growth and a whole lot of information for you to use to achieve the proper Vintage and/or Victorian Look.