Celebrate International Women's Day With Flowers

International Women's Day celebrates women's accomplishments and advocates for gender equality. Honor an inspiring woman in your life by sending her hand-delivered flowers on March 8th!

THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY:

International Women’s Day began in the early 1900's during a time when American women were becoming more vocal about their oppression, socially and legally, and organizing to bring about change, most notably by the suffragists.

In 1908, 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding the right to vote and better pay. Two years later, an International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen, Denmark where the idea to hold a day around the world where women demand their rights was proposed. International Women’s Day was born!

HOW WE CELEBRATE:

Many people give give small gifts or send flowers to celebrate International Women's Day. In some countries men and women give flowers, postcards with poetry, chocolate, and other pleasant gifts to their mothers, wives, grandmothers, sisters and daughters.  It is a day to celebrate all of the women in your life! 

SHOP OUR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY FLOWERS 

Petal it Foward Detroit

WHAT:

Blumz by JRDesgins is hitting the streets of Detroit on Wednesday, October 19th to hand out 1000+ flowers to Detroiters to help brighten their day as part of the National “Petal it Forward” campaign sponsored by SAF. Each person will receive two bouquets- one to keep and one to share.


WHY:

The “Petal it Forward” program is in response to the release of new data from the Society of American Florists (SAF) showing the positive emotional benefits of flowers. Research shows that both giving and receiving flowers yields these positive results!


WHO:

Blumz by JRDesgins:


Ferndale:

503 E Nine Mile Rd

248-398-5130


Detroit:

1260 Library Street

313-964-5777


Ann Arbor:

By Appointment Only


WHEN:

Wednesday, October 19th 2016

11 am- 2 pm


WHERE:

Campus Martius-


800 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48226

~Team Blumz

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Blumz by JRDesigns Back to School Contest: Enter to Win!

September is in full swing, the kids are back in school and cold weather is on it's way.  Soon, it will be Halloween and then the holidays!  It is amazing how fast the seasons fly when you are having fun! Back to school means new teachers and lots of happy parents.  In celebration of the 2015/2016 school year we are running a very special Blumz by JRDesigns giveaway.

Blumz by JRDesigns  is running a back to school contest for all the moms, dads, kids, and teachers that are making a difference.

Flowers are a great way to tell your teacher how much you appreciate their hard work, to tell mom how much you appreciate all those homemade lunches, or to tell dad how much you appreciate his help with your English homework! Flowers are a great way to show someone how much you care.

This contest is your chance to win a beautiful arrangement for someone special to you.  The winner of the contest will receive flowers to give to to the person that they nominate. To enter to win the contest you must visit Blumz by JRDesigns on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram and post a photo or short paragraph telling us who you would like to nominate and why.  This contest is meant to celebrate all the great teachers, parents and mentors who work so hard to make the future better and brighter for all of us.  This is also a great way to score some brownie points!

We will draw one lucky winner on October 9th, 2015 and they will have the chance to come in and pick up a one of a kind Blumz by JRDesigns arrangement to give to the person that they nominated.

Let flowers and Blumz by JRDesigns help you kick off the school year the right way!

~S

Blumz: Make Someone Smile

A smile is such a simple gesture, but sometimes a smile can turn your whole day around. In fact, it was Mother Theresa who said “We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do”. It’s true you never really know what sharing a smile will do, which is why we sought out to deliver a lot of smiles around Ferndale and Detroit this past Monday. Blumz by JRDesigns participated in Teleflora’s annual Make Someone Smile campaign and walked away getting more from the smiles that we got then the ones that we gave!

Every year Teleflora asks florists across the U.S. to join in and hand out their signature Be Happy® Bouquets to those who need smiles – such as hospital patients, senior citizens living in nursing homes and assisted living homes, and recipients of Meals-on-Wheels programs. The Be Happy Muggs are donated by the company and each florists reaches out to distributors within their community to get plants and flowers donated to fill the mugs with before we head out into the community to hand them out. This year Blumz by JRDesigns participated by filling 48 mugs with plants that were donated by Tropical Distributors. We visited Ferndale’s own Hilton Nursing Home and gave smiles to the residence. They were overjoyed to welcome us into their facility and loved receiving a plant. A lot of the women talked about being former gardeners and told us it meant a lot to get a plant to take care of and enjoy. We were smiling so big when we left that you would think that we were the ones getting the gift.

After sharing some smiles in Ferndale we headed to The Mariners Inn in Detroit to share some more smiles with the staff and residents. Mariners Inn is a in house treatment program that uses art to help people recover from alcohol addiction. They have 90 residents in their program at all times and they work really hard to help get them back on their feet. We shared smiles with the staff and with the residents of the facility. Everyone was excited to get the mugs with the plants inside. We were blown away by the positive response and the great work that Mariners Inn does for the city of Detroit, we were delighted that they let us in to share some smiles and joy with everyone there.

Give a smile week runs through this Saturday, July 25th. We wanted to share this story to encourage everyone to share a smile with someone this week. Life can be rough but it's a lot easier when we show each other a little support, a litte understanding, and give each other a big smile to help all of us get through the day. If you would like to send a Be Happy Bouquet display to someone who might be feeling down you can purchase one here. Smile, life is wonderful!