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3 year old boy – size 6 (shirts and pants)
10 year old girl – size 10 in pants, Medium shirts
12 year old boy – size 16 in pants, Large shirts
Female - size XL
Male - size medium, jeans 32-32, shoe size 11.5
November to Remember iPad 2 Winner Announced!
We met Jonathon at our Winnipeg flower shop on December 2nd and gave him his brand new iPad 2.
We know that Jonathan will enjoy this early Christmas gift and wish him all the best for the holidays and in the new year.
(And thanks for being a good sport about the photo!)
Win an iPad2 from Dragonfly Flowers!
We're also giving away $100 store credits each Wednesday until the final draw for the iPad2 on November 30th, 2011!
Best of luck to all who enter!
Free Flowers for a Deserving Winnipeger
We recently had the opportunity to have Winnipeg Culture Blogger Sarah Zaharia visit the store. She wrote a really nice blog post that included our Winnipeg Flower Shop.
As part of the fun, we offered to give away free flowers to Winnipegers who posted comments about why they deserved to win free flowers from Dragonfly. Out of all the comments posted, the winner chosen was Tahl East, who as we found out after getting to know her on Twitter is a crazy big Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan, and now a big fan of Dragonfly Flowers!
Tahl was kind enough to take this awesome snapshot of the flowers she received and post it to Twitter thanking us for sending them.
14 Commercials Featuring Flowers
Flowers are an everyday part of life and as such they are often featured in commercials. I'm not talking about commercials for purchasing flowers, but commercials promoting other types of products. I came across one of my old cheesy favorites the other day while searching for flowers on YouTube (I'll save that one for last). These are just a few that I found and are in no way the definitive list on the subject.
Just for fun, enjoy!
Communication Providers:
AT&T
While it's obvious that this commercial is not new. (Because it doesn't a person doing something non-sensical like the Old Spice Guy), but AT&T used the "flowers" reference in this commercial to leverage the largest floral holiday of the year, Mother's Day.T-Mobile
T-Mobile uses raining rose petals in this commercial that was released somewhere in Europe. I didn't really feel much like translating the text, but I did notice that the song they used was in english; strange. Nice of one of the commenters to state that they "would be so happy if it would rain rose petals". 
Dutchtone
This one is great! Who doesn't like a Leslie Neilson sketch? For anyone who hasn't seen a documentary or read about the Dutch Flower Market, it's an amazing mix of fresh flowers and fast technology. It's housed in the 4th largest building in the world and around 20 million flowers are sold there every day of the year! It's likely you've seen or possessed flowers from this market at some point in your life.
Political
Microsoft China
In this commercial, Microsoft China is using blooming flowers to help develop an image of nurturing and understanding in the Chinese culture.
Joe Pollack for Congress (Why Not?)
Well, in keeping with the Political theme... In this commercial, Joe is leveraging a struggling local small business to help his campaign. It just happens to be a florist! At least at the end he gets a nice bouquet of flowers.
Cars
The Toyota Prius
This one's actually really cool because there are lots of videos to watch on YouTube if you are interested, but I'll only include 2 here. The actual commercial tracks along the lines of being one with nature and humanity and this time features flower people. The reason I included it, is that along with this ad campaign, they also created something unique by using roadside floral advertising. A "making of" video is included below.
I'm using the news-brief video, because it's a little more interesting. (All the florists with greenhouse operations reading this blog can still drool over this one!)
Financial
HSBC
No matter what the event, your florist can help you avoid the pitfalls that can sometimes happen when choosing the right flowers, no matter where you live!
Ameriprise
Who better to talk about flower power than Dennis Hopper? Well he does say that "Flower Power was then" in this ad, but I really beg to differ. I know he's talking about flower power in the 60's, but most don't know that there have been literally hundreds of studies on the power of flowers for health. Emotional impact, workplace productivity and even the ability to change that grouchy morning mood! You can read more about the the New Flower Power at the About Flowers blog that was developed by the Society of American Florists.
Household Items
Rice Krispies
Here we've got Drew Barrymore as a flower girl on her way to a wedding. We don't really get to see much flowers until the end when she actually goes to the wedding, but I like her crown of flowers.
Tide
In this one we've got a bunch of women receiving flowers from their male counterparts. it looks like the fresh scent of Tide is being compared to the scent of fresh flowers and the feeling you get when receiving flowers? While I couldn't agree more that receiving flowers from your florist will definitely create feelings of joy and happiness, I'm not sure that sniffing your shirt will ever have the same effect...
Sprite
Well. This one is from Sprite.
FujiFilm
Flowers are often used for camera ads and in the past for ads promoting different types of film. Flowers are used for both their beauty and contrast of colors in the scene.
JC Penney
Of course, we had to include a Valentine's Day commercial! And aren't those roses just beautiful!
Impulse Body Spray
I have to say that this one is my favorite. It really annoyed me in my youth, but I felt that I just had to share it! And one final note. We strongly encourage the random giving of flowers when you have the IMPULSE!
Thanks for watching.
Carnation Wedding Flowers - Why not?
We recently did an absolutely AWESOME Carnation Wedding in Winnipeg for one of our lovely couples. Over the years I've heard it said many times that florists just won't do weddings with carnations. Why Not?
The carnation is a flower that gets a bad rap in a lot of circles as being a cheap and somewhat insipid when put next to the other options available from your florist. With flowers, it seems that beauty IS truly in the eye of the beholder.
In fact, carnations are said to be born or the tears of the Virgin Mary, and symbolize a mother's undying love. Probably why they are the official flower of Mother's Day! (Note to self: Add more Carnations to the Mother's Day Pages!)
Anyway, as with most flower arrangements I find that you will either love it or hate it. What's really cool about this arrangement isn't the flowers that were used, more the overall contrast of colors and wonderful textures throughout.
Free Flowers - Spot our delivery vehicle!
Reviving an old post about Free Winnipeg Flowers for all of our new followers:
Don't forget that if you see the Dragonfly Flowers delivery vehicle around Winnipeg, you can take a quick snapshot and post it to Facebook.
We'll give you a $50 store credit to be used anytime you want!
Just let us know that you did it!
Grad 2011 is Approaching!
We hope that everyone who is attending a graduation celebration this year will keep it a safe and happy event. It's a great time of your lives and you really deserve all the best in this and the coming years as you move on.
We're offering all Grad 2011 customers a free Boutoniere with every corsage purchase this year, so please feel free to book early as our spots are limited and will book up quickly.
Spring Has Sprung in Winnipeg
We've added some great new Spring Flower Arrangements to the website this week and wanted to share them with you.
Congratulations to our latest Random Office of the Month Winner!
Lori Johnson!
This Week's Random Office of the Month Winners!
With Valentine's Day coming up, we thought we'd do it up right with a Dozen Red Roses this week! In fact we actually gave away 2 dozen! April and her colleague Colleen both received a dozen roses because they both signed up for the Random Office of the Month !
