SRFA Convention- 2010

 I had a great time presenting at the SRFA convention, in Charlotte, NC.  It was a good warm up for all of the garden club demos I will be doing this Fall.  If you would like me to speak/demo to your organization, just call the shop for more information.  I'm going to be inspiring you all, for holiday decorating, with the best and newest ideas I've come across through my summer travels.  Check out my facebook page, Kristi Podsiadlo to see the pictures from the convention, and add Dahlia as one of your favorite business pages.

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First Day of School - 70's Style

This year, instead of going to school, I will be an instructor.

I am headed to Charlotte to teach a day long floral design class to intermediate designers at the Southern Retail Florist Convention, Aug. 27th-29th.  It's called "Consistently Different".  Yippee!!  I will be working with fantastic flowers and "hot off the press" new design materials, which will assist me in putting on a fantastic, inspiring class.  

     I look back at this picture, and laugh, because I still feel like that awkward, yet optimistic, kid, searching for the next new cool thing.  Instead of cherishing my cool McD's lunch box and sparkly red, white and blue banana seat bike, and my best friend, Tony ( who, that year, outgrew hanging around a girl), I am still cherishing cool stuff and fun friends, with an optimistic heart, it's just different stuff.

The Dahlia Team will take great care of you while I'm gone, for the next two days, I'm confident of this.  Andrea just received notice that she is accepted to become a member of AIFD, the most prestigious floral design organization in the world.  She had to undergo a rigorous floral design test in Boston, and only 47 of the 106, that took the test, passed!  Greenville (and Dahlia) is lucky to have such a talented designer among us.

Well, good-bye, and enjoy these first crazy weeks of Back to School mayhem. . .

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Bridal Event - Sunday - August 8th!!!

 At the Upcountry History Museum, on Sunday, August 8th, Kristi Podsiadlo, the owner of Dahlia, will be giving a demonstration, as well as a question and answer session, as part of the wedding event, called "I Do Rendezvous".  The subject of the demonstration is a secret!!!  You'll have to stop in, to find out.   Show time is 5pm to 8pm.  See you there!

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Energy of Flowers

 This is a very fun video about Vitamin F - as in Flowers!  Go to our facebook page to post your comments.  I would love to know what you think about it.

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