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Happy Easter from all of us at Billies! We are excited to unpack our hundreds of boxes full of amazingly incredible pots, birdcages, handmade animals, feather earrings, vases, terrariums, you name it. Alanna is back from the gift show and has filled the store with a delicious assortment of surprises.

For Easter, expect the usual: twiggy bouquets, eggs adorning the flowers, dainty feathers and all the spring fave’s from tulips and ranunculus to peaonies and daffodils.

Rainy Day Wellies Bouquet

Barn wood Owl paintings

Feather Earrings in Squamish!

robins egg blue=love

Its spring inside the shop at least as we see snow, hail, patches of blue and mostly gray and black skies. We are getting excited with the sounds of the birds each morning and have plenty of new stock in robins egg blues, teals, spring greens and plums. Among our spring and easter themed gift lines we have lovely spotted egg candles, robin egg truffles, decor eggs and felted gray lambs. See below for some inspiring photos of our brimming store!

New line of fragrance and candles-Skeem

This is just a photo of a beautiful spring arrangement using hyacinth, ranunculus, mini hydrangea and umbrella fern. It was full of texture and scent and so pretty for spring.

Come visit us this week as we deck the halls with beautiful arrangements, fragrant centerpieces, festive boquets, and lovely holiday decor. The shop is in full holiday-bustle. Stop in to take in the heavenly scents of pine, fir, and cedar. We also have unique holiday cards & gift wrap, ornaments, and plenty of poinsettias.

We’ll be open this week Dec 19th-22nd 9 am-5:30 pm, Friday the 23rd 9:30 am-6:30 pm, and Christmas Eve 8:30 am-3:30 pm. (closed Dec 25th-27th) Regular business hours Dec 28th-30th and open New Years eve 10 am-6 pm. (closed New Years Day).

Pink and lovin' it!

I am grateful today for the sun, for having a day off, for my wonderful community and all the great conversations I have with them. We had our son’s 2nd birthday party yesterday-kept it simple, set up all the neighbourhood kiddie pools, sprinklers and blankets, we had organic sliders, couscous tofu chocolate cheesecake for dessert and danced around to fun kid music. I am glad to have kept it relatively stress free and without all the hype around presents and themes and all that. I just don’t want to go there until I absolutely have to! He did receive some very nice gifts though and I am thankful for that! Here’s to more sunny hot days of summer as we head off to the lake for a dip!

This weekend I delivered one wedding to Nita Lake Lodge in Whistler and one to Pemberton Valley Farms-in Pemberton obviously! I decided to invite Kevin and Shem with me to make it a fun family day. The day was warm, everything went smoothly and we had a great time at the farm in Pemberton.

at Nita Lake Lodge

Shem saw a peacock and was chasing after it. It was the first time in my adult life I had seen a peacock too and it was so beautiful! The vibrancy of the plumage and the rich blues and greens was enough beauty to last me awhile, except that I was standing in the most spectacular valley with huge snowy mountains towering around me. I admit I was falling a little bit in love with Pemberton that day. We stopped at the Mount Currie Coffee Co. and had a delicious lunch of organic turkey and cranberry/swiss panini’s with coffee and juice.

Playing at Bathtub Gardens Farms

Beautiful White Calla Bouquet

This is a picture of the beautiful calla lily bouquet I made for Robyn at Nita Lake Lodge last weekend. Her flowers were so pure and simple. Above you will see her ceremony arrangements which literally took my breath away as I was making them. Every once in awhile I would look up and I would catch my breath and get butterflies in my tummy just looking at their beauty. I feel so grateful when I realise that my job is, even though so incredibly busy and stressful at times, filled with beauty and colour and abundance.

Living Wall Art

We finally have our gorgeous living wall circles in store. Many of you have been looking forward to these for some time now, sorry about the delay! Please give us a call if you are interested.

 Another highlight of the day was stopping at the most recent flower vendor-Bathtub Gardens Organic Flower Growers. It was cool to see how they grow the flowers, their trials and tribulations and the beautiful relaxed vibe of the place. I feel so good in my heart that we can support this. As a business owner there are a lot of struggles and stresses and the responsibility is huge! But its also exciting to know that we have the responsibility and the opportunity to support the things that align with our values and our vision for the world today and in the future. If we can’t support this organic farm, who will?

So to get into the groove for real we are making blue, green and white bouquets and vase arrangements to help celebrate the final games and they have been selling like hotcakes! I’ll post some pictures later today!
The best part is you can bring a bouquet to your friends house where you are watching the game, but also pick up a beautiful Canuck-puck cookie from the Sunflower Bakery while you are at it! A true work of art!

Lastly, a warm and happy welcome to spring. Its finally arrived, and right on the verge of summer! The local flower crops are a little behind, with peony season on its way out, tulip season is over, a brief showing of lilacs. The big beauty right now are calla lilies, with so many flooding the local market the prices are for once reasonable on these long lasting classic beauties. Come by the store to see our new pots and vases, woolly pocket planters, gorgeous outdoor succulent pots and our ballet show bouquets and teacher gift planters we’re so famous for.

Have a beautiful sunny day everyone!

Three blogs in particular this spring, (Thanks to my friend and bride-to-be Mara for introducing them to me!) have been particularly inspiring to me this season:

1. http://www.stylemepretty.com/

2. www.greenweddingshoes.com

3. www.100layercake.com/blog

They all feature real life wedding of creative, outside of the box weddings with wonderful ideas, unique flair and a real personal touch. Most have a vintage feel, or a fun, outdoor, barn type of wedding venue with lots of DIY ideas that thrifty and smart brides today are looking for. Thinking I might have to start one of these blogs myself-a Vancouver/Sea to Sky Wedding Blog featuring resources, vendors, ideas, and real weddings…..stay tuned!