art crawl + helleborus + Juno week

Downtown Hamilton is buzzing!
Oh, sure, we are hosting the Juno Awards and everywhere you look there will be concerts and sessions with musicians and singers who would normally play much bigger venues (like the opportunity to see Elizabeth Shepherd at Mills Hardware on Friday night...)
This Friday the March Art Crawl will be transformed into a 'music crawl' - many shops, restaurants and bars will be featuring musical guests. It will be a perfect way to kick off spring!
But the biggest buzzworthy news is that this week we have no wind chill factor and a new batch of hellebores in the shop.
Oh, can you beat that?

stunning pink helleborus are ready at i fiori

i fiori + cake & loaf + white elephant = i-heart-you.

Once again 3 local, independent businesses will make your Valentine's decision easy-peasy.
Last year's collaboration was a huge success (we sold out in days). This year - don't wait to pre-book - we have a cut-off date for orders for a good reason: the 'one-stop-shop' combines handcrafted jewelry, hand-made chocolate and of course - a beautiful i fiori bouquet.

Order at : hello@whiteelephantshop.ca

the end of the Valentine myth

I don't really like red roses...

spring flowers and resolutions

Well, we are truly in the last half of January, so time to confess this year's resolutions:

1. Be more thankful.

2. Embrace technology.

3. Drink less wine.

#1 - check
#2 & #3 - seem to be counter-intuitive

Last Sunday saw me wrestling with skype, blackberry, instagram and wordpress while simultaneously trying to chew my way through the cork on a bottle of ripasso...

And that is my apology for being so lax with new posts.

The Christmas season at i fiori was magical and crazy busy. Thank you, thank you. thank you. (see resolution #1) We spent our time with customers and workshops, and creating centrepieces, terrariums and bouquets (and unfortunately less time updating the blog with photos - see resolution #2)
But now we are coasting through January - the weather is not as brutal as last year's, but still I feel the pull, the need for spring bulbs in the house.

sweet little clay 'euro-pots'

amaryllis, narcissus, mixed bulb euro-pots, lemon cypress & heather

great selection of fresh cut tulips are in the shop now!

tulip, tulip, tulip, ranunculus, tulip...
easy and fresh in magnetic test tube vases from Chong Wu

See you in the shop!

deck that hall vers 1.1

what's in, what's low and what's almost finished...

Just a quick note: we have a v-e-r-y limited quantity of fresh mistletoe in the store, and when it is gone... it is gone.
Also this will be the last weekend to reserve and pick up our beautiful BC cedar or mixed branch garland - sold by the foot so you can purchase exactly what you need!
We still have a good supply of paperwhite bulbs in various stages of bloom, amaryllis (potted and bare bulb), some beautiful Christmas cactus (the all-white ones are gorgeous), as well as lemon cypress trees and topiaries, fresh lavender 'trees', white helleborus... oh, the list goes on...
See you in the shop!