... Flowers from the Heart... Thanks You!

What a hectic Valentine's Day it was for me! For those of you who don't already know, I was running a small Valentine's Day business this year selling bouquets. Let's start off with the 13th Feb. Reeee-wind!

13th Feb

Started the day going to HabourFront to have lunch and collect the Supplementary Licenses for the Off-Peak Car that we're using. Once home, Kelly and myself quickly counted the number of orders we had and exactly how many more we needed to get. Then we were off to grab our supplies! By this time, the orders were more or less confirmed already with a few still pending/coming in. We went down to the florist and realised that we grossly under-estimated the orders the last time so we bought another bunch of flowers, side flowers, ribbons, wrappers, the works. We rushed home after that and started preparing to wrap the bouquets up. I was de-thorning the roses MANUALLY! You know how hard it is to dethorn 200+ roses manually!? Anyway Kailin came around 4 plus and she joined in the fray. Kelly and Kailin were busy making and wrapping the bouquets. I have two fridges in my house and I had previously cleared one for the bouquets but we realised that one fridge was not enough... So we cleared the other one! Two fridges full of roses.. plus a lot of spoilt food after that. We worked all the way till 5+am in the morning and I dropped Kailin off at PGP. Kelly and myself came back and we went to sleep at 7am...

14th Feb

My parents were off delivering in the morning so we thought we could get some sleep but.... We kept getting calls and messages the whole morning so the sleep was pretty much very disrupted. One customer called to complain in the morning that the blue roses were rotten. Funny thing is, another customer that also ordered blue roses were very satisfied with his bouquet. The blue roses came from the same bunch so either the roses got spoiled along the way or his expectations were unrealistic. Anyway we woke up at 11am and continued to pack the bouquets to prep-up for the afternoon deliveries. My parents came back at 12pm and we changed shift. Dad stayed home to pack his bags while Mum, Kelly and me continued the deliveries. We spent the whole day in the car driving all over Singapore, getting lost, finding our way around, listening to the radio, laughing and generally having loads of fun even though we were super tired. I'm actually glad I did this. Hey, I got to spend Valentine's with the two (yeah, that's right TWO, not one!) most important ladies in my life! Anyway we reached home only at 630pm, picked up Dad and his bags and the bouquets for the evening rounds and we were off again! Deliveries only ended at 9+pm and by then we had to rush off to the airport to send Dad off to Beijing. Had dinner there and sent him off, then sent Kelly back and finally reached home! My day ended at 12+am. Tired but very satisfied.

To our dear customers,

Thank you once again for your support!! We sincerely hope you've had a great Valentine's Day and you liked the bouquets that we sent you. Please do support us again next year! And remember.. "Romance is not a luxury." =)

Lotsa Love,