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Bloor Street Entertains 2011 – Diesel

We had the pleasure of being a part of one of the best events of the year….Bloor Street Entertains in support of Canfar. Prominent Yorkville stores open their doors to host private dinners followed by an after party…it is an amazing evening for an important cause. Thanks to everyone who was a part of this great event including Scott Koch of Spin Radius Events. Here are some photos from our florals from the evening we did for Seneca students and aspiring event gurus Alex Cheng and Anastasia Si who were in at the helm at the Diesel store dinner.

See you again next year!

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*Beautiful photography by Babak - http://www.babak.ca/main2.html

The non-Christmas…Christmas.

Without getting into much detail, it hasn’t been a great year for me, my husband or my family on a personal level. Lots of challenges emotionally and spiritually. It has been exhausting, but we have come out the other end and we are still standing.

I started thinking about skipping Christmas, but how does one go about even suggesting something like that? Turns out it was on everyones’ minds. 

So this year The Mitchells et al will do just that. No malls, no tree, no cards, no gifts, no wrapping, no running around and no 24 hour cooking/cleaning sessions. At first I was worried about what this meant or that I would feel like I was missing something. Turns out I feel like I have made the best decision in a long time! 

This December I will take the time to really do some charitable work which always ends up to be the bare minimum because I am so busy. Like volunteering for 3 full days for Toy Mountain, adopting a family for a holiday hamper, volunteer gift wrapping and putting money I would have spent towards a really good size Food Bank donation. And it feels great.

At the end of it all, we will still all come together with family and friends to just simply enjoy each others company..to just do nothing! 

It’s an interesting thing this Christmas holiday season. When you remove the stress and the work…you are left with what really matters…time.

Events in Bloom wishes you and yours a holiday season full of love, happiness and good will.  

 

 

Princess for a day.

barbieThis past weekend I had the pleasure of making the florals for a special Barbie event. 200 lucky little girls won the chance to spend the morning with Barbie at her “Princess Charm School” held at the beautiful Casa Loma (a castle of course!).

p1040914I was given only 2 instructions…fun and pink! It was definitely both.

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The event was made possible by Canadian Family magazine and St.Joseph Media.

Here comes the bridal….bouquet.

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From exotic purple orchids and rich dramatic black calla lilies to soft fluffy hydrangeas paired with pretty garden roses; 2011 had it all for us..img00358-20110521-0948img00659-20111001-1006

Can’t wait to see what’s in store for 2012, in the meantime enjoy!

 

What a fun fall…some recent corporate work.

 

Over the last few weeks we have had the pleasure of making florals for some great events.

 

img_1821img00645-20110918-1218From TIFF to the oneXone concert party and a few private parties in between here is a small sampling of some of the designs from these events.

p1040613p1040616With our wedding season coming to a close for another year we are looking forward to the 2011 Holiday season!

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