Supporting art's in your community.

     Aim and I are very honored and indeed feel blessed to be supporting the Art Gallery of Hamilton's Cinema Hamilton Awards.

      Today, September 30th, 2012 the Art Gallery of Hamilton is holding the closing event for the AGH BMO World Film Festival called the Cinema Hamilton Awards (The CHAs). The local independent film festivals have joined forces with the AGH World Film Festival to celebrate excellence in independent film production in Hamilton. Tonight's Cinema Hamilton Awards night is an exciting evening where the award winners are revealed and the prizes given in eight categories from Best Short Film to Best Feature Film.

We have provided use of centrepieces for the tables and we are honored to be along side great artisans in the community. This evenings theme is vintage Hollywood so we ran with inspirations from the 20's - 50's using milk glass vessels, french netting and feather accents among our fabric blooms and paper flowers. Tones of sepia, cream, ivory and white were  combined, to provide depth and aged character in each arrangement.

  Aim & I are both supporters of Independent film makers. Our big brother Brandon has been experimenting in film since he was young. Brandon went on to attend Humber Colleges' film program, upon completion (after a memorable experience involving cop's and the tactical team .. unplanned.. during filming... of a drive by shooting scene..) Brandon went on to produce many great bodies of work. Along the way, working with great friends and clients over at Partners Productions and now enjoys a career at Toronto's Dazmo Digital. Yes, we have a fondness and a respect for all aspects of film.

We congratulate the City of Hamilton’s Economic Development Office and Beaux Mondes for the giving of time and talent to produce the 2012 Cinema Hamilton Awards tonight at Theater Aquarius.

You can take a peek at our work for this event in the Etsy shop
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Whos say's wedding season is over?

It has been a fantastic first year for us at Alternative Blooms!
The Etsy shop is booming and after some time off during the month of August, September has come in like a lion.
Of course when you take some time away from an online business you really have to ramp up your promoting the minute you get back to work. Aim and I decided to finally join a few Etsy treasury teams .. the serious ones. We are particularly enjoying the TAGT team.
We are obligated to curate and also visit the Etsy treasuries daily, which takes us an hour to properly complete. We are happy to say we have had some great treasury success recently with 300 - 400 views. We took the time last Friday to curate a treasury to honor our Dad - it being World Alzheimer day. It was well received by our TAGT family and we found a lot of great Alzheimer related items which we did not know existed, let alone on ETSY.

We currently have 2 commissioned weddings we are working on. Deanna's will be done by next Wednesday. This wedding features teal, light pink and hot pink anemone and white hydrangea. It is a full paper flower wedding with custom dye colours. It has been fun and challenging to mix the correct teal but we have finished our dye process and will move on to the assembly Monday.

Our second wedding is a fabric and paper mix. Samantha is having a December wedding so red has been incorperated along with an earthy natural feel by adding leaves to the design.
We will be sure to post pictures of both our weddings once they are done.

Our garland has been a staple in the Etsy store. Sold in purple, vintage apricot, white, blue and pink, strung on a vine wire, our brides are falling in love with it.

More orders are waiting in the wings as we try to add Holiday items to our collection.
We are full of table centers!! make sure you take a peek at them :)

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