And so it begins...hopefully.

I am proud and excited to announce that I am officially the florist for Loft 610 restaurant. Now, to be honest, it's mostly because I am cheap and I work there, but it's still my first official flower job. I am doing the table bud vases once a week, bouquets at the host stand when needed, and other odd jobs as they come up. I have done 2 weeks of flowers, and need to get hooked up with a wholesaler quick, or else I may actually lose money on the deal (I may have under-estimated my costs, oops). Last week I used orange tulips and a really dark green leafy guy that I found at Whole Foods. This week it is orange and yellow gerbera daisies with this really cool limey/chartreuse green filler. I forgot to take a pic of the tulip, but I hope you agree that the daisy is pretty great. I also got to do flowers for a bridal shower, the host wanted a couple small lime green arrangements, and I happened to have these really great black vases, so I made three small bouquets using verbena and spider mums, it looked pretty swell. I start my horticulture classes in two weeks and am really excited. It's been 10 years since my last college class, but I think I'll enjoy going back.

Oh, and on the bunny war front, I bought some liquid fence at Lowes that seems to be working. It smells absoutely awful when you spray it, but I have had no additional damage and the smell goes away after it dries. Luigi seems to want to mark his territory everywhere I spray it, but as long as he is not trampling the flora and the fauna are staying away, I'll be happy.