FLOWERS
Like snowflakes, no two flower arrangements are alike! Our cooler varies weekly with the freshest and most available flowers! Each arrangement and bouquet is created individually and to your budget. Photos are of past designs and for inspiration! Please call the store directly to order your flowers as we aren't always checking emails, during busy times! Call 204-859-3334
COVID-19 UPDATE
Warning ⚠️ Long Post, but VERY important information!! Please read! ❤️
So just in case... and if you aren’t aware - we are OPEN for fresh flowers (among other products), but this is my friendly reminder that like everything in the world right now, ordering flowers is not “like usual”! There are many changes/adjustments to how we do business!
If you can't be there in person, the next best thing is to send love and thanks with flowers or gifts that can be delivered in town or picked up at the store!
However, our flower industry has been hit hard by this pandemic (just as every industry has been). We are in Canada and obviously, by the weather, it is NOT growing season in our country yet, so we are at the mercy of importing every flower!
We do have an easy to use website that shows past designs that we have created, just to give you an idea of our skill, style or colour palette. For now, you will order based on budget only. We cannot recreate designs you see, especially now. We aren’t a big corporation that can churn out 50 cookie cutter arrangements of one design. In reality I’m very proud of that fact! Thankfully, we are a small business, where every order is created just for you and is one of a kind!! Like snowflakes, no two arrangements or bouquets are alike. Plus different blooms look different in each design with their partners.
Normally, flowers and specific colours vary due to many factors, like season, availability, etc. But now flower suppliers/farms have been faced with a giant global pandemic that has shut down the entire world. Flower farms have closed or at the very least have cut staff. Crops have been destroyed or sacrificed so that they can put their remaining energy/resources into focusing attention to tending other specific types of crops, just to be able to keep farms operating.
Each week we order a “wish list” but it is completely subject to substitutes and changes. Our suppliers have been absolutely amazing at sending us the best quality flowers that they have available each week. We don’t know what we get until we open the boxes. That in itself has been a pleasant surprise during this difficult time. All flowers really are beautiful. But this means we will not or can’t guarantee specific color designs or specific flowers during this time!! Hopefully one day in the future. If you need something specific, please pre-order a minimum of a month in advance, we will try our best but cannot guarantee that it will be available.
For now, please trust us! We will take creative license to design a beautiful bouquet or arrangement to your specified budget! If you’ve seen our past designs, our talent and love of flowers speaks for itself. We only send out creations that are beautiful and handmade with love. We would never send out anything we didn’t stand by. So, please trust our expertise and years of knowledge to create something beautiful for your loved one, friend or yourself, that best showcases the blooms we have vs a specific design you’ve spotted on the Internet.
Order your very own hand crafted “GSIB Blooms Designer Choice” arrangement.
The next major change: If ordering online, PLEASE pre-order at minimum of two business days in advance!! We only check emails a couple times a day and may miss a last minute order is sent by email or online order. If you need it delivered in less than 2 business days, PLEASE CALL THE STORE DIRECTLY AT 204-859-3334.
Walk-ins are allowed as long as everyone retains proper social distancing. But... it would help us tremendously if you pre-ordered, at least your flowers!! We are running on limited varied hours and no extra staff! We aren't open 6 days a week!! Mostly Wednesday - Friday (though that can vary during peak times).
It’s just myself and I'm juggling being a mom too! To place a last minute order please call the store directly at 204-859-3334. If you leave a message, we will get it and return your call as soon as possible! As a “one woman, small business show”, I just don’t have the man power to check social media/email regularly if we get busy. In reality, it might get checked once a day, if I’m lucky and most likely before I’m crashing into bed!
So pre-ordering (at least two business days before) in advance will help us be able to keep up with orders, better schedule pickups/deliveries to better control how many people are in the store at one time, control the length of time of people being in the store, able to sanitize between shoppers, and lastly better able to ensure we have enough product available.
Thank you in advance for trusting us to send love and blooms to your very special person. Thank you for supporting our business, we’ve always appreciated our customers, but now more than ever, we are beyond grateful, as you are helping us survive, to continue staying in business, for hopefully many more years as we slowly weather this storm. ❤️