Today we got to decorate the Slovak Representative House with flowers that match their national flag.  For the duration of the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Slovakia has setup a Slovak cultural atmosphere in the Vancity Theatre in Downtown Vancouver.

They requested us to use the same colours as their national flag and we had a great time arranging these flowers that will be placed in various locations in the theatre.

For this arrangement, we used premium red roses, blue roses, blue orchids, white roses and white cymbidium.

According to the official Slovak Representative House website, they will be serving food, wine, cheese, music cultural presentations and movies.  Check out their website for more info.

A few days ago we got an interesting request from our client.

Here is a transcript of our phone conversation.

Me: Hi good afternoon Garden Party Flowers.
Client: Hi, I want to send my good friend flowers.
Me: Sure no problem, do you have a style or colour preference?
Client: Can you make me a skull?
After a few seconds of silence…
Me: Sure, would you like photo’s of the design before we deliver it and a paperless invoice to your email?
Client: Really? That would be awesome!

Amy spent the next two hours designing and sculpting a skull.

I was laughing so hard the whole time she was making it because it looked more and more real every time I looked over.  After she finished, We had to deliver to Stella’s on cambie street where the recipient was celebrating his birthday. When we arrived, his jaw dropped and couldn’t believe what he was getting.  He loved it and so did random people at the restaurant coming to check it out.

Here are a few more angles of the skull we took at the store before delivering: