The best thing about having your own flower garden is having fresh bouquets on all your tables and window sills. BUT you don’t want wilting, icky bouquets. You want your fresh flowers to last as long as possible. While working in a wholesale flower shop, I gathered some decent cut flower tips…

Only pick flowers right before placing them in a vase: At the flower shop I worked with we considered the lifespan of picked flowers super short; as in under a week. If roses didn’t sell within a week, we’d send them back to the farm for compost. Flowers after …read more

It’s funny, when I had an office back in corporate land…I brought things from home to warm up my surroundings. Nothing sickeningly sentimental…photos of my puppy, fresh-cut flowers, the requisite Ziggy cartoons and some candy.
But now that I AM home, my office is very official looking, almost stark in its decor. I wonder what that means…perhaps that I wasn’t serious about my work at the big firm but now that I’m running The Pet Set I am very serious?
Whatever the case, I will always remain a fool for fun office accessories. Check out the neat stuff at …read more