Fresh Flowers From Bouqs

First let me start off by saying it's a rare occasion for me to accept a freebie in payment for a blog post/ review. I think this is the second time in five years actually. I'm generally not down with it. I have extremely high expectations and unless I think it's something that my discerning clients would enjoy I have to say no. The Bouqs contacted me and I was intrigued. 

In this case they had me at Concierge Service.  I LOVE that with Bouqs you can sign up for the concierge program and receive monthly flowers. That's luxury! I love it. Fresh flowers without hauling them from the grocery store or calling your local floral boutique to have a bouquet made up. Fresh flowers to tell your future you that you're great. Nothing better. I'm sold on the concierge service. 

The Bouqs sources their flowers from a Southern California farm and from a volcano near the equator. They only work with farms that are environmentally friendly and also pay their employees living wages. Both are must haves for me. If you purchase your flowers from the California farm, it's easy to tell the difference on their website, you can get next day shipping. STILL time to get your Valentines Day flowers ordered fellas! No standing in line at the grocery store at 6:00 on the 14th for you! (yeah I saw you last year and it was sad) 

This is how the flowers arrived via FedEx. 

I ordered the Recognize bouquet, orange Lilies (Orange Lillium Asiatic). One thing I love about The Bouqs is their wide range of single variety bouquets. I love a grouping of all one type of flower. A mixed bouquet has to be really imaginative to catch my attention. Mostly because they usually have Carnations and I can't get down with Carnations. Did you know my first job was delivering flowers? I delivered to a lot of funeral homes and believe me most of those arrangements were Carnations. 

The package when the box was first opened.

It took about six days for my bouquet to arrive. The Lilies arrived closed, thank goodness. The Bouqs pride themselves on delivering only the freshest flowers. I had no idea what to expect but as you can see the flowers were packaged impressively.

The Lilies when I first removed them from the packaging.

I'm now on day six and my flowers are gorgeous! The color and smell is wonderful and they're showing no signs of fading! 

Day Six.

I'll say the only downside is arranging them yourself and providing your own vase. But I also love providing my own vase, and am fine with arranging. I know clients that wouldn't love the arranging but also some that would so that's a toss up. I love the idea of using The Bouqs for sending the flowers to myself to arrange to hand deliver to a friend. I seriously love any way to make my life easier.

The Bouqs has mainstay bouquets as well as seasonal specialty bouquets. My bouquet is a mainstay btw, Lilies are always in style. The bouquets range from $40-$50 with the option to upgrade. The upgrade to Deluxe is $10 and gets you twice the amount as the basic bouquet. The upgrade to Grand triples the amount of flowers as the basic bouquet and costs around $20 more than the Deluxe. The upgrades are worth it y'all. Always upgrade.

I'll for sure be ordering from The Bouqs again, I'm already considering an early March bouquet for my birthday of one of these....

Let me know when you order your Bouqs bouquet and send pictures!

Thank you Bouqs for teaching me about your company, I'm a fan. I wouldn't turn down a trip to the Volcano either, btw in case you were wondering. ;) 

Thankful.

This time of year I start seeing ads for shopping and gift guides everywhere I turn. I want to hold on all of that and be thankful for you, for my husband, my family and friends and everything in my life. We all have it so good, even when it doesn't feel very good. And for that I'm thankful. 

Tomorrow we'll spend the day in town with family. We're making a conscious effort to not go crazy with too much food, to be more aware of what we're eating and make sure it's really high quality. After having cooked a turkey, a naturally raised on a farm turkey, I can no longer do it. I can barely stomach it to be honest. I'll get down and granola about it, they're just really beautiful birds and I don't want to eat one. We're having pork loin instead I believe, but heavy on the yummy side dishes.

You guys I made this stuffing last year and it's the best. So. Good. I'm excited to make it again, I'm actually only excited about the stuffing and pumpkin pie, that may be all I eat. ;) The stuffing is really easy, please skip the boxed stuffing, it doesn't do bread justice. Click the picture for the recipe. Nommms.

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I'm also doing a plethora of roasted veggies. We eat roasted veggies a lot. It's so easy it's turned into my go to I didn't plan anything for dinner meal. It was requested for Thanksgiving, so I will be roasting all of the veggies :) I even have lentils in the prettiest fall colors, I may sneak them in. 

I'm excited and hopeful that I won't have to roll away from the table this year, still wearing a comfy but chic maxi skirt. ;)

Here's to you my sweet friends! I'm beyond thankful that I get to work out of my home studio daily because you trust me with your homes and businesses. You're the best people and I'm honored to call you JHD clients. Hug your families a little tighter tomorrow and remember to be thankful for all we have, rather than wishing for more things.

Cheers!

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Running behind myself.

At least that's how things are feeling. This is such a busy time of year, now I'm remembering how the holidays pass me by without me noticing. I'm still focused on not allowing that to happen. In the mean time I'm crazy busy this week and booking up next week. It's the best problem to have!

I've been obsessed {and super late on the bandwagon!!} with Million Dollar Decorators. I have one episode left and I'm holding on to it for recovery when I've had an especially trying day. Then I may watch both seasons again. Here's some wisdom from the great Mary McDonald. 

Follow me here on Pinterest, it's where I go to look at pretty things when my brain is tired :)

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