April 9, 2025 • 34 mins
Have you ever wondered why we pick what we pick to make a flower arrangement!? Or have you ever tried to pull things to make an arrangement and were overwhelmed or disappointed? Believe us, we get it! Making choices can be overwhelming, even at a Salad Bar for Jeremy! In this podcast, we step you through our 4 Principles and a go-to formula for what to pull! :) Just remember FLUFFFY!
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squadcaster-jc67_1_04-07-20 (00:00):
Hey friends, just a quick note
before we dive into today'sepisode.
This podcast was recorded beforethe recent storms and flooding
that hit our area and so manyother areas in the Midwest.
So if you hear us laughing andjoking or talking about the
weather in a way that feels alittle out of touch, please know
we were definitely not makinglight of what's happened.
(00:20):
Our thoughts, prayers and heartsare.
With everyone who's beenaffected, and we are working on
a way to help raise funds andsupport those in need.
So stay tuned for more on that.
Now let's get into the episode,and thanks as always for being
here with us.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (00:35):
I don't know if we're gonna be
here much later because the isting in the wind outside y'all.
I almost got blown off the, the
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (00:42):
Did you see Dorothy Shema?
Didn't she?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (00:44):
So I saw all kinds of Dorothy's and
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (00:46):
is the.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (00:46):
So when we're taping this people,
we are, we are taping it.
Pre hurricane, tornado monsoon,22 inches.
That gym said it is more rainthan we've ever seen in the
world.
And I was like, oh lord, that'scoming.
The monsoon.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (01:00):
said
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (01:00):
So when you listen to this,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (01:02):
that much
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (01:02):
yes.
When you listen to this, we maynot have a roof.
I don't know, but we're, we'regonna tape it and we'll, we'll
see how the weather turns out.
Late tonight.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (01:10):
yeah.
So y'all hunker down and we're
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (01:12):
Hunker down.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (01:13):
If it's, if it's raining, of
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (01:15):
Well,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (01:15):
y'all
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11 (01:15):
weather, look, they'll,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (01:16):
these
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (01:17):
they'll hear this weeks later.
So we buy, we, they, they don'tneed a hunker now.
Now they, it's done, right?
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (01:22):
paper.
These people are crazy in here.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (01:25):
That's true.
gonna be a code red there withtoilet paper if we don't get it
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (01:29):
It is./ Sabrina
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (02:32):
today's podcast was, influenced by our
suite audience member one, Kim.
Um, because in one of the pastlive sales.
I just pulled together somethings and put it together.
And then for the next three dayswent on and on about how
beautiful it was.
And then she said, how do youput these things together?
(02:54):
And I was like, well, I just putit together.
She's like, yeah, but how do youknow which texture?
Like, and she used that word,'cause you know, we use a lot.
She's like, how do you know whatflowers and textures and like,
how do you know what to puttogether that makes it or just
make this look work?
And I said, well.
You just, I just do it.
And I kind of explained it toher really quick.
And then I remembered that awhile back, we wrote a blog that
(03:18):
gave all of the steps and thelike the principles that I was
trying to explain to her of howto approach this.
And I thought, oh, this is agood little episode.
Because, you know, we've had,know we all have people that
come to us when they're in thestore and of course they look to
us for guidance and, you know.
and what to pick because theyfeel incredibly overwhelmed.
Right?
Like they don't know what to puttogether.
(03:39):
And I get it.
I, I didn't know what to puttogether.
I remember when, when I firststarted making fly arrangements,
I'd look at you two and you'd bemaking stuff and I'd be like,
oh, how did they make it look sopretty?
Because, you know, I didn't goto school for this.
Y'all didn't go to school forthis, but you had to learn
somewhere.
Right?
Well, how did you all learn?
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (03:55):
Mine was, um, I had a shop in
Lexington Mall.
And any of those that know that,that's a thousand years ago.
So it was a mall and I had ashop there and I had a few
little stems.
Again, I'm with you.
I didn't have this background.
I had a accounting background,so I sure didn't know how to
stick a fake flower in a pot.
Um, but I had stems and thislittle lady came by, uh, that
(04:16):
worked at, McGalin and so didStewart, by the way.
Not the same little lady, but,um, but still little lady.
And, uh.
Cute.
And her name was Darlene LickBlo.
And she was all of 92 pounds andshe wore a sweater in the
summer.
And glasses.
No, no, I'm not talking aboutStewart, I'm talking about
Darlene and glasses on thechain.
(04:37):
So funny.
And she was from, uh, it's gonnabe a long day, isn't it?
Uh, so she, uh, was from, uh,Amish, Pennsylvania, and she
said, how.
And I introduced and she said,I'd like to make flowers for you
for free on my break.
'cause I used to do this as afloral designer and I don't get
to do it any longer.
(04:57):
And I work at Melvins and I'mbored.
And I was like, oh no, no, Idon't wanna take advantage of
you.
And she said, no, no, no.
I wanna do it for free.
And I was like, Nope.
I.
And she asked three times andfinally she said, take that
broom closet and turn it into alittle closet for me and I'll
come and do it.
And I said, yes, and it ended upthat's who taught me how to make
flower arrangements.
And she, from the volunteerended up working for me three
(05:19):
days a week.
And that gave her joy and Ilearned from her.
But Darlene Lick Blau is whotaught me how to make flower
arrangements in the combinationDarlene.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (05:30):
Huh.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (05:31):
But
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (05:31):
I, I can
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (05:32):
but yours, that crazy Stewart?
Yeah.
How can you not forget that one?
I.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (05:35):
Uh, no, I, uh, I think I was in my
first year of college'cause Iwas still in Illinois and I
applied for a job at florist,you know, whatever.
Let's just do something.
And so as a part of theapplication, as they had, you
some flowers together and makesome flowers.
And I got done and was so proudof it.
(05:56):
And the lady looked at me andshe went, well that's horrible.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (06:01):
Wow.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (06:03):
And I said, fuck you.
I don't wanna work here.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (06:05):
Yeah.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (06:10):
So then that
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (06:11):
That's funny.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (06:12):
even
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (06:12):
Yeah,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (06:13):
it
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (06:13):
I love it.
There you go.
And what city was this in?
Was this Peoria?
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (06:20):
It was imp Peoria.
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (06:22):
Crash.
You didn't know what a good flyarrangement was.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (06:24):
she didn't.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (06:25):
That's right.
There you go.
There you go.
That's funny that the, thechallenge was laid at your feet,
wasn't it?
You're like, I will learn how todo this.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_1 (06:32):
I was like, fine.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (06:32):
So self-taught what I'm hearing on
that one.
Really.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (06:35):
much.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (06:36):
So I know that back in the day there
were like tutorials andFacebooks and those things and
many, many years ago.
So how did you, how did youself-teach?
You just bought stuff and playedwith it.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (06:46):
Oh yeah,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (06:47):
I.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (06:48):
then of course my mom, she's like,
you can do that.
So we would just go, you know,at the floral stations that we
had back then, floral stores,which wasn't lot in that town.
I
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1 (07:01):
Joanne's, which is gone now
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (07:02):
Ben Franklin,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (07:03):
Yeah,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (07:04):
at frankly.
Oh Lord.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (07:05):
That was the biggest one, was Ben
Franklin.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (07:07):
That's funny.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (07:08):
with stuff and did it.
And that's just how, how itwent.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (07:11):
Yeah, it really is true effort.
However, we will teach you thatnow.
Jeremy, what was yours?
I think yours is through osmosisbeing around us.
Talents is what, I guess,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (07:20):
Uh, absolutely.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (07:22):
Stuart?
jeremy-guest232_1_04- (07:22):
absorbing
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_1 (07:23):
I
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1 (07:24):
Absorbed.
Yes.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (07:24):
talent from you all.
Just taking it all in.
I just
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (07:28):
Oh, I love it.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (07:29):
as as a win, and then you just like
kinda develop your own style andeverything.
But, um,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (07:34):
we actually teach you or help you
or just just throw you in thereand make you do it?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (07:37):
Well, I mean, I really felt like y'all
threw me under the, not underthe bus.
It felt like y'all just threw meto the lines.
Um, but
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (07:44):
Sounds about right.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (07:46):
no, I mean, you all, you all did
take time to show and, um, youknow, at least what you all
understood, right?
Like how, what you all, you all,what you all did.
You, you did, you
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (07:56):
Yeah.
Even when we started workingtogether, Jeremy, I was far from
an expert.
I know that, that I was probablystill in this learning curve
because I didn't, you know, Ithought I was still
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (08:05):
is like for me at the time, you all
were experts, right?
So, I mean,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (08:07):
mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04 (08:08):
different.
So,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (08:09):
Right.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (08:10):
just kinda go.
So I guess my point to like allof that is like all, no matter
where we are on our journey,there's always so much for us to
learn.
And, and we could all, we allget easily over, get over
overwhelmed.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (08:23):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (08:24):
about like.
The anecdote about this is Iwent to this, and this is a true
story.
My husband and I went to thisrestaurant, uh, it was brand new
and it specialized in pizzas andsalads and you could do like
gourmet pizzas and salads.
And they had it like up on themenu.
They had, uh, these pre-madechoices they could do, but none
of them really like.
(08:45):
Make sounded really good to me.
I thought, I'll do this.
I know what I'm doing.
I know what foods I like.
I'll make a salad.
And so I just started puttingall kinds of stuff on the salad,
and then they had some kind ofspecial seasoning and house
dressing and listen, that saladcame out and I was supposed to
eat it.
I couldn't eat it.
It was awful.
It was just the biggestsmorgasbord of disaster.
(09:06):
I was so embarrassed about howbad it was never been back.
Yeah.
Uh, but, and it wasn't becauseembarrassment of, of them
looking at me like, oh God, whatstyle did he make?
It was more of me just beingembarrassed of myself, being
like, I, you know, I thoughtthat I could do this.
And so what I don't want to dois I wanna make sure we give
people the tools to help themtheir own things and be able to
(09:29):
put things together.
Because I know as much as welike to make arrangements and
sell'em, we don't wanna makeevery arrangement in the world,
right?
Like we, we,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (09:37):
No people.
This is people's joy to do some,some people want to do this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (09:42):
that's where this kind of came from.
'cause I knew, I could see inKim's eyes that she really
wanted to learn how to do this,and she really wanted to
understand, right?
So she could do
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (09:50):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (09:51):
and then have that
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (09:51):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (09:53):
we've all been there, we've all
started a project where wethought, we just knew we could
do it.
And then at the end of it we'relike, oh God.
That was
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (10:00):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (10:00):
so I'm trying to like, how can we
take that away for, you know,take
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (10:03):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (10:04):
people.
So that's really what this isall about.
So in the blog, which I don'teven know, I think Dwayne, you
might have read it at some pointin the past, Stuart, I
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (10:13):
yeah.
Oh yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (10:14):
a chance to read it.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then there's no hate,there's no judgment in that
because listeners, 90% of whatgoes online or used to go
online.
I did it all and I just kind ofdid it.
And then they were like, oh,that's great.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (10:28):
that's
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (10:28):
just do it.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (10:28):
Well look, you ramble on all the
time.
So last thing, I want to
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (10:32):
know,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (10:32):
read your crap.
So yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (10:34):
So well this is going back to a, a
blog and so I thought I'd walkyou through what was in it and
we'd had the conversation aboutputting it together.
And so it's on our, website andI'll put the link down in the
show notes, uh, so people canactually click it.
'cause you can actually seevisual, Representations of
what's actually talked about inthat.
But there's four principles thatto
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (10:56):
Now this is a podcast about a
tutorial,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (10:59):
No, it's
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (10:59):
about a block.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (11:00):
it's a discussion.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (11:01):
How convoluted can this be?
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (11:04):
Next, there'll be a YouTube video
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (11:06):
Yeah, there you go.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (11:06):
They'll be Facebook, they'll be, well, I
mean, you, you know, I got, yougotta put it out in different
ways because people hear itdifferent ways and it's just,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (11:13):
Okay.
Okay.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (11:13):
don't wanna read.
So
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (11:15):
Well,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (11:16):
So we'll just, we'll just talk,
rod.
Yeah, there we go.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (11:18):
to, a lady yesterday and she was
like, oh, I've, I've stoppedsocial media.
I've read five books since March3rd.
And I went, you've, you've readmore books since March than I
did when I was in college.
And after you know, reading'sjust not my thing.
Right?
So I'm much more visual andaudio like I, you know, I'd
rather have that.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (11:36):
I'm pulling a Kanye.
I'm not gonna read.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (11:40):
So
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (11:40):
it up.
If you know what that means.
Look it up
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (11:43):
Right.
Look it up.
Um, before we can get to
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (11:45):
and read about it.
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (11:47):
unquote formula, right?
And this is just a general, likethis is a good starter point,
right?
So this is not
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (11:55):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (11:55):
how to make every arrangement, but
this is just to help you get a,a, a, a start, right?
To understand how to put thethings together.
We'll get to the formula in asecond, but because I think you
have to understand like the.
The principles first.
You gotta crawl before you walk,right?
So this is kind of that.
So the four principles, um,they're, they're really quite
simple.
The first one is be intentional.
(12:16):
And this goes along with that.
Me putting all that stuff in thesalad that I thought that I knew
that I liked.
And there was a bunch of stuffthat I did like, but it just
didn't work together.
So, you know, I don't needanother soundbar disaster.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (12:28):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (12:29):
So pick, you're gonna pick things
intentionally and you, when youdo pick things intentionally,
you'll, you know, pick'em withan intention from what the, the
formula is.
And then the next one is,everything that you use should
have a purpose or a role.
So it's kind of like, um, whenit comes to bands, not everybody
can be the lead singer, right?
But you do need a lead singerand you need backup singers, and
(12:50):
you need the band, and you needall that, right?
And you get, have too many egosand then the bands blow up,
right?
And then the
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (12:57):
Yep.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (12:57):
kind of quick principles are the
first one I said I learned inkindergarten, which was true,
uh, which was keep it short andsimple, right?
So you don't need to put.
75 colors in an arrangementbecause you're gonna get really
overwhelmed,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (13:08):
Hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (13:08):
again, this is starting, right?
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (13:10):
Right.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (13:10):
in it as you get more comfortable,
but when you're starting, Ialways say keep it like two to
three.
I love me a monochromatic.
arrangement or, you know, add,add you a little bit more.
'cause the joke I made was noteverybody could wear that coat
of many colors, right?
I'm sure Dolly rocked that whenshe was a kid.
I would look like a hot assmess, right?
(13:33):
so just to try to, keep it shortand simple and then connect the
dots.
And so what it means by that isif you have the two or three
colors.
You connect the one to theother.
Okay?
So you'll use things that have,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (13:45):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (13:45):
those two colors on the very skim.
That is kind of like those fourprinciples.
And those are basicunderstandings of, okay, keep it
short, keep it simple, keep itlimited.
Let connect the colors andeverything's gonna be important.
So you just can't throw all thesalad bar dressings in there.
That's simple
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (14:04):
A common thread in everything we
say.
Less is more.
Less is more.
Less is more
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (14:08):
Well, you
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (14:09):
This is what it's about.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (14:10):
This morning the lady was in and she
had a wreath that she wanted toput in front door, and she goes,
well, I'm not fussy and I don'twant it overdone.
but here's the wreath.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (14:19):
that how she talked, by the way?
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (14:20):
She did.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (14:21):
How she talked?
Yeah.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (14:22):
heard
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (14:23):
Yeah,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (14:23):
She was sweet.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (14:24):
yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (14:25):
um, she goes, but I need ribbon.
Well, the ribbon she had, one ofthe ladies had picked up with
her was this really smallribbon.
And then they were like, whatribbons do we put with it?
And I'm like, well, do, you saidyou didn't want it fussy.
You didn't want, so we don'tneed to put all these things
together.
Let's keep it more edited andthen that'll be perfect for her.
So, yeah.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (14:43):
Did it fly?
Did she, was she okay with youridea?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (14:45):
we picked it together.
Yeah.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (14:47):
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Good.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (14:48):
those things where you just don't
know.
It was standing in front of thesalad bar.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (14:50):
Mm-hmm.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (14:51):
Well, it's funny because as she was
checking out, I was up there,she said, I'm buying things with
intention.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (14:57):
Mm
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (14:58):
good.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (14:59):
the word of the
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (15:00):
Okay.
That's random.
Yeah.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (15:02):
She goes,'cause I don't need shit.
So if I'm gonna buy it, gonnahave a purpose.
And that was her follow up.
I said, well thanks for stoppingby.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (15:13):
I'm okay with.
Yeah, I'm okay with that.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (15:15):
Yeah,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (15:15):
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (15:15):
that.
I used to anything.
I went into home Goods and itwas a really good price.
I knew that it was a good valueand I could use it for client's
house at some point.
I always bought it.
bought it, and I just had pilesof shit
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (15:25):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (15:26):
I ended up selling it.
Yard sales,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (15:28):
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (15:29):
I don't do it
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (15:29):
Yeah.
Barb, love your yard sales.
Love your yard sales.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (15:33):
yeah.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (15:33):
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (15:34):
we had good ones.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (15:35):
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (15:36):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (15:36):
that anymore though.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (15:37):
Lord.
No,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (15:38):
No.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (15:39):
uhm.
right, so let's talk about the,um, the recipe, if you will, the
formula, and I call
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (15:46):
Okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (15:48):
which I think is funny, but it's
spelled F-L-U-F-F-F-Y.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (15:53):
Well, when you said that it felt
sexual to me and how you dispelit out, it feels even more
sexual.
stuart-host483_1_04-02- (15:58):
there's a fluffer, so
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (16:00):
what that is?
Okay.
I Why?
I thought,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (16:03):
So
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (16:03):
you know.
Okay.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (16:04):
that
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:05):
Okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (16:06):
Well, you
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:06):
Okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (16:07):
that is
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (16:08):
Yeah,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (16:08):
all how I, how I
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:10):
Well,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (16:11):
There
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:11):
okay, moving on.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (16:12):
mean.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (16:12):
commit.
Commit.
There was some big comedian, notsay big, there was a larger man
comedian and I can't rememberwhat his name is, but he, you
know, he was a heavier set dude.
And he was say, I'm not fat, I'mfluffy.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (16:22):
Louie
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:23):
Okay,
stuart-host483_1_04-0 (16:23):
Anderson.
Was that, I think that was LouieAnderson.
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (16:27):
I hear the word fluffy, I just
think of like a big band.
stuart-host483_1_04-02- (16:29):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:30):
we're just gonna go with that.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (16:32):
Yeah,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:32):
We're gonna go with that one.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (16:33):
so I was like, well, hmm,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (16:35):
Oh Lord,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (16:36):
let's, what's that say
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:38):
like, yeah,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (16:40):
oh,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (16:40):
times.
Good times.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_1 (16:41):
I mean.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (16:43):
so, each letter stands for
something, right.
And again, all this is in the,in the blog, but this is just
the discussion.
So.
first F is for fluffy foliage.
Okay.
And what you'll see when you getto the next one is foliage are
the first two.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (16:57):
Now, I don't think you're supposed to
use the anagram word in thedescription word as well.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (17:02):
Well, no, listen, I didn't write the
rules.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (17:04):
it foliage?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (17:05):
You could foliage fine
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (17:07):
Okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (17:07):
what?
The really two, the F.
The f and L are foliage andleafy foliage, right?
So it is basically
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_1 (17:14):
a lot of f and l going on, so.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (17:18):
The first two are for and so you
don't need, if, if you're juststarting out, you
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (17:26):
So wrong.
This, this podcast is going offthe rails.
Okay.
Okay.
Here we go.
Start over.
Okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (17:33):
We have
stuart-host483_1_04-02 (17:33):
Foliage.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (17:34):
two.
Okay, so you,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (17:36):
Then what's the l?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (17:41):
Foliage and leafy F Basically it's two
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (17:44):
Oh,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (17:44):
There's two different kinds of greeners.
Just, just listen and
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (17:46):
this anagram is stupid.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (17:48):
Well,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (17:51):
Leafs are foliage.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (17:53):
okay, but each letter stands for
something to put to pull intoyour arrangement.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (17:59):
Okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (18:00):
my point was.
kinds of greenery is usually agood place to start.
You don't need eight, need
stuart-host483_1_04-02 (18:08):
They're.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (18:10):
start with two.
And you're pretty good.
And so the reason why they'redifferent is it's, you want
something structurallydifferent.
You want the shape of themdifferent, right?
So think lemon leaf, you have alarger leaf, and let's say you
put asparagus fern with it.
So you've got something fluffylike that's what the asparagus
fern is, right?
And you've got the biggerfoliage.
So that's why there's twodifferent ones they stand for.
(18:30):
Something floppy or floppy orhangy or whatever.
And then the other one's a leaf,like a more
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (18:34):
Again, it goes back to the fluffy, the
first version, but that's okay.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_1 (18:37):
I mean,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (18:38):
But with that said, it's different.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (18:40):
are we gonna,
jeremy-guest232_1_04 (18:41):
asparagus.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (18:41):
how, how are we gonna strengthen
this?
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (18:45):
We're, we're, we're, oh my God,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (18:47):
gotta
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (18:48):
we're doing different textures.
There's different, one is, um,it is just different textures is
what you're saying, basically.
Okay.
Two different textures,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (18:56):
you
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (18:56):
two different textures.
jeremy-guest232_1_04- (18:57):
different textures.
And then also we, we talkedabout the color.
So you also want something thatmaybe is slightly different than
the other because there's noreason to put two items in
something if they're the samecolor and the same size.
'cause then you lose your
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (19:11):
You like a darker green and a more
bright green of some, somedifference, some variation,
right?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (19:16):
leaf first allow, or a ruscus, and
you've got a darker green inthat, right?
And then again, you can then putFern, that's a completely
different color, right?
You've, it's a
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (19:23):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (19:24):
it's a different
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (19:25):
Yep.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (19:25):
So it's
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (19:26):
Okay.
Got it.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (19:26):
like mixing those two together,
right?
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (19:28):
Okay, so we've got our, we've got our
F and our L.
There we go.
We're good.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (19:32):
okay.
The U stands for up.
do you need something vertical?
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (19:37):
there we go.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (19:39):
Mm, mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (19:41):
I think
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (19:41):
Um,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (19:42):
is gonna say much more about you
to, than it is
stuart-host483_1_04-02- (19:44):
Listen, there is an explicit rating and
you are just talking about allthese words that have different
meanings
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (19:51):
mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (19:52):
Oh my God.
Okay, so the U is for branch.
So the is for branches orheight, or do you want, do you
use delphiniums or do you use,you know, something vertical,
right.
Well, what do
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (20:02):
You need like a good wood piece
basically, right.
That's what we're talking about.
Yeah.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (20:07):
right?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (20:08):
like the.
Lord.
Okay.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (20:15):
shit.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (20:16):
Okay,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (20:17):
Okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (20:18):
I always say that when I start an
arrangement, I always figure outhow tall I'm gonna make it
first.
Like that's where I start.
I'm gonna get my height, andthen I'm gonna figure out my
width.
That's usually like, I'll do thewhatever, branches, whatever.
I'll start with that and thenI'll do my, so that's like the
first three steps.
Is that how
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (20:33):
So size matters.
Size matters when, how tall youwant this to be,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (20:37):
all.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (20:37):
does, because there's a link.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (20:39):
What right?
Girth.
Right?
So those, those change things.
How you want it in the flowerarrangement.
Okay, we got it.
Okay.
We're getting it.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (20:47):
Okay.
What's the next F?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (20:50):
when you, I'm just wondering, this is
how I make an arrangement.
How do you all do it?
Do you, do you do the same?
How do you all approach it?
As far as like the fir, like thedo you
stuart-host483_1_04-02- (20:56):
Height.
I go to height first.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (20:58):
Yeah,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (20:59):
That's me.
I do height first.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (21:00):
What about you, Dwayne?
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (21:02):
Uh, I fill it in.
I always stick to Magnolialeaves in there and that's where
I start
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (21:05):
Okay.
You.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (21:06):
always the base.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (21:07):
place.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (21:07):
do.
999 times outta 9,000.
I stick magnolia leaf in it andthat's my start right there.
That's why everything I do looksthe same.
There you go.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (21:16):
Now the rest of this is not
necessarily, this is the orderthat you have to put it into the
arrangement, but that's justpulling the, the items that you
need.
So the, the first F is yourfocal flower.
So, and again, we're imagineyou've got a big arrangement and
there's always, like, in mymind, there's always an
arrangement or there's always aflower in it that's like the
(21:37):
star, right?
There's always like, if it's abig Dahlia, if it's a big,
beautiful peony, like there'ssomething that, that's like the
big anchor.
The main star of it, right?
So that's the Beyonce, right?
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (21:48):
Yeah.
Beyonce.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (21:49):
So you gotta pick one, lead thing.
So I always say if you have oneof those leads, then you can do
their, their friends or liketheir backup singers that that
are smaller.
as dramatic that you can putwith it.
So if you had a big peony andyou were doing it in, you could
do some PE Andy Buds, right?
You can do some roses, smallerones, but they're all in the
(22:11):
same kind of colorway thatyou're looking at.
So if you're doing a and let'ssay you wanna do three colors,
you're doing coral, yellow, andgreen.
So green in my mind's, alwaysone of the colors.
'cause you know, green greeneryis always gonna be part of it
one way or another, right?
So if you use coral and yellow,let's say you have a coral.
Big coral peony.
Well then the roses that youpick could be, have a little bit
(22:33):
of coral and yellow in them,right?
Or they could be just yellow.
They just start pulling thosethings together so they all just
kind of meld together to do allthe work.
Right.
So
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (22:42):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (22:43):
so that gets us to fl UFF, the last
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (22:49):
Wait, what's the second?
F Friends?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (22:52):
Mm-hmm.
stuart-host483_1_04-02- (22:52):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (22:52):
Mm-hmm.
Friends.
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (22:54):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (22:55):
friend flowers.
And then the last one is fillerflower.
And for me, this is more of, Idon't, I don't think any of our
styles are in a of, uh, or are.
Based on the idea of having 7million flower stems.
Is that fair?
Like, I don't, like none of usare trying to go in and make
these, the image that comes tomind is always like the real
(23:15):
housewives of Beverly Hillswomen.
Like they have these big, likeoverly stuffed rows.
Pee and e just ridiculous allblooms arrangements.
Well, no, people don't have thisin their home like this.
That's not unless you havesomebody coming in and doing
fresh arrangements for you allthe time, but that's just not
necessarily the style.
Ours is usually always kind ofcut and gathered, right?
So the filler, in my mind isalways a hydrangea that I go to
(23:36):
because the hydrangea is a greatway to fill in a large part of
the arrangement, add you somecolor and texture, but it
doesn't make it super busy.
So I would, I would sayprobably, I'm gonna say 90% of
the time, 95, maybe even 95%.
I always use hydrangeas.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (23:54):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (23:55):
are you,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (23:55):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (23:55):
you say that
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (23:56):
Mm-hmm.
I do.
Yep.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (23:58):
covers space
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (23:59):
Uhhuh, it covers
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (24:00):
Mm-hmm.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (24:01):
It fills in dead spots.
Yeah.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (24:03):
And almost, almost everybody likes a
hydrangea, right?
Sometimes I'll go grab Rose andgo, oh, I don't like roses.
Or I'll go grab, um, I don'tknow, poppy.
Oh, I don't like poppies.
I'm like, yeah, or tulips.
How could you not like a tulip?
But there's people out therethat don't like tulips, so
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (24:19):
Yeah,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (24:19):
almost everybody likes a hydrangea
that, no, I, I think I've donetwo arrangements.
It's like I've made them andit's like, oh, I love everything
about, about those hydrangeas,and I'm like, oh.
It's not the color.
She just didn't like hydrangeas,and it's like, oh, okay, okay.
I'll take it out, put somethingelse in.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (24:36):
Hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (24:36):
Hmm.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (24:36):
mean, just change it and move on.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (24:38):
Yeah.
Well, I, in my mind, you couldnever go wrong with a hydrangea.
And you, hydrangeas are one ofthose really good stems that you
can do to connect, uh, colors
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (24:46):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (24:47):
there's a depth in the hydrangea where
you've got, it's not just solidone color, right?
You've got a little bit of arange of
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (24:52):
Well, at the point of the taping.
This, we've got a blue hydrangeathat's a real touch.
That is incredible.
I mean, totally incredible.
And then you just got a newwhite one in, not as incredible
as the blue one, but it's apretty good white hydrangea too.
Uh, so I'm happy with, uh,basically if you gimme those two
colors, I'd probably make anyarrangement with those two
(25:14):
colors, hydrangeas.
Yeah, I'm happy with those.
Yep.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (25:17):
All right, so you've got your
foliage, you've got yourbranches or whatever you're
using to get some height.
You have your star flour, youhave your backup singers, and
you've got the filler.
So think like a hydrangea.
And so I always say the lastthing that you can add to it is
something for texture.
So I call it your choice is whatthe Y is for, is your choice.
So if you want to add berries orseeum or something, that's a
(25:38):
little architectural to it, soit's not more flower heads.
Does that make
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (25:42):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (25:43):
So that helps.
It never feels somebody comes upto you and, well, actually, I
just had a phone call with acustomer last week.
She said, um, she called in, shewas ordering online and she
said, okay, I need some help.
I'm gonna send you a picture ofa bouquet.
am making the bouquet for mywedding and I just dunno what I
need.
And she goes, and I have$450worth of stuff in my cart.
(26:04):
And
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (26:04):
You don't need that.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (26:05):
and I said, okay.
And I was like, you know, Isaid, I'm not trying to get real
personal, but.
What size dress are you wearing?
you know, uh, and she was like,oh, like I, I, I wear a size
two.
And I was like, okay, babe, wegot way too many flowers.
Like I'm, you know, you try totake that
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (26:22):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (26:22):
account for if, if they want a bigger
bouquet or whatever.
And I was like, yeah, no, weneed to pull this back.
So she gave me her list.
There was 34 items that she wasordering.
I was like, okay, let's, let's,let's pull this down.
We're gonna, so, and I helpedher out and, and, and did it.
Um, but it was like, you just,you keep, you just feel like you
just keep pulling, right?
You do one of this,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (26:41):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (26:42):
you can do that if you are, if you
feel really confident in yourstyling, right?
I think
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (26:46):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (26:47):
can
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (26:47):
Right.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (26:48):
but when you're not and you're
trying to figure it out, I wannabuild you up in a way that you
can do this and then feel, youknow, positive about your
ability and so that you canbuild up to where you can add
all the different stuff.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (26:59):
So what, what positive is on that
conversation is part of it isthose who are.
Local that are in our world.
Obviously they can come in hereand we can guide them all day
long, but if you are outta stateand you're listening or outta
the country and listening topodcasts, you can reach out to,
um, Jeremy primarily, uh, and hecan either do a phone call or he
(27:20):
can email you or text you andguide you a little bit and give
you a little more suggestions onsomething so you're not out
there stuck on your own.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (27:27):
Well, I
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (27:28):
Right.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (27:29):
I'm not gonna say no, but my hope is
listening to this and readingthe podcast that they don't even
have to reach out.
I'm hoping that they can do iton their own,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (27:36):
Well that's, that's a good point.
That's a good point.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (27:37):
I mean, we're happy to help.
That's what we're here for.
Right.
But, um, I want to, I want toget them to a place where they
feel like they can make thesedecisions so they don't feel
like
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (27:45):
Mm-hmm.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (27:45):
Right.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (27:46):
your clients tway, that they can't
pick out a pair of underwear.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (27:49):
Thank you for that.
Um, so with that said, I'llbuild you up while you tear me
down.
What I heard from that is youtook the time victim, uh, that
you took the time to actuallyundersell, right?
Because she did not need tospend that much money.
And I have to believe also togive your credit, that's why you
have nearly 7,000 positivereviews online because of.
(28:13):
The positive experience thatyou're doing.
And I don't think there's a lotof, uh, online, website, uh,
websites out there that sellproduct would take the time to
guide somebody
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (28:23):
Yeah.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (28:24):
and put'em in and say, and by the
way, I'm helping you, giving youfree advice, and I'm telling you
to spend less.
And that's why they get you andthey get us because of what
you're doing.
So thank you.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (28:35):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (28:36):
that as you tear me down.
That's okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (28:38):
Well, thank you.
Well, we had a customer, I had acustomer call in the other day
on our, uh, customer serviceline and answer.
She goes, huh, are you theJeremy?
She's, and I was like, uh, yes.
And she's like, I think youpacked my order.
And I was like, maybe'cause you,my stamp is on it.
she's like, I can't believe Icalled and I get you all.
And I'm like, well.
It's only, there's not that manyof us up around here running
(29:00):
this
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (29:00):
Right.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (29:00):
this.
You got us baby?
Um, okay.
So if people use kind of core,principles, right?
Keep it, keep it short andsimple.
Keep, connect your colors.
be intentful when you pullingout your stuff.
And then.
Figure out where you can placethose stems to do that.
I think you will be able to keepit un like not overly
(29:23):
complicated, because overlycomplicated is when stress comes
in.
When you say like, I feel likethat's always where people start
second guessing themselves andthen it's a disaster.
The only other kind of key pointI wanna mention to this is that
for me, and I think we really doa really good job of this is
that greenery is as, is asimportant as your flower stems
(29:44):
that you use.
Don't
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (29:44):
Yeah, I think almost more sometimes
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (29:48):
I, I'm with you.
That
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (29:49):
more
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (29:49):
it?
Mm-hmm.
stuart-host483_1_04-02 (29:50):
texture, more of the
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (29:52):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (29:54):
yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (29:54):
Mm-hmm.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (29:55):
more.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (29:55):
Agree.
Yeah.
We put more effort and thoughtinto that and more decision, uh,
absolutely could not, uh, agreewith you more.
A hundred percent.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (30:03):
it,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (30:04):
And like if you, if you love you a
good Magnolia, we, you, you'renot gonna beat what we have,
right?
We, you're just not gonna beatit.
And we got that new lemon leafsout and I don't know if we've
sold out, if it's coming back.
Uh, I think you have it onlineand not in the store currently,
but we can always get you some.
It's the most.
Perfect lemon leaf I've everseen in my life.
(30:25):
So I'll ask this.
When we, uh, when you post this,um, can you have those images up
to where people can see whatwe're talking about?
The, the, the, the magnolia andthe lemon leaf or some ha
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (30:34):
Yeah, absolutely.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (30:35):
I'm gonna ask if you can't That's
okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (30:37):
Yeah, no, and what what I'll do is in
the, in the show notes, like Isaid below, it'll have the link
to the, the blog so you canactually see visual
representations.
And they actually, in the imagesof the blog, they actually have,
products that are tagged in it,so they can actually see, like
piecing it together.
But then I'll make a, a littlecollection where of the things
that we've talked about thatpeople can see, uh, the, the
(30:58):
items that we've kind ofmentioned in here too.
That's
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (31:00):
So circle back
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (31:01):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (31:02):
you have two different kinds of
textures of greenery.
You have one Beyonce.
Right.
One backup singer, right?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (31:12):
know, a couple of backup
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (31:13):
Or two?
Two, two backup singers.
You've got two backup singersand a you.
That's your choice of, look atme listening, right?
A berry,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (31:22):
a
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (31:22):
a filler.
A filler, a berry, and a seeumor something like that.
You're on your way, right?
You are really on your way.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (31:29):
And that's what this, again, I was
trying to like give you all aheads up, but before I was like,
this is not trying to telleverybody how to make every
flower arrangement.
Like you have to have
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (31:36):
No, no.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (31:37):
but this is like, okay, we're on
our, we're on our littletraining bike, right?
We're gonna pull out our things,our, our stems, and we're gonna
build our confidence.
This is, I think, a pretty foolproof way of trying to pull the
right kind of stems that, thatare gonna work together.
That's not gonna make it overlycomplicated, and it will make
them excited when they'refinished making arrangements.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (31:58):
I, I think we got this.
We can do this.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (32:00):
Yeah, we can do this.
So here's
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (32:01):
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (32:01):
cha, challenge the people that are
listening.
If you have made arrangements oryou do make arrangements in the
future, I want you to post themon Instagram or
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (32:10):
Oh,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (32:10):
'em on Facebook, and I want you to
put'em with the ha.
You can tag us in it and thenput the hashtag fluffy,
F-L-U-F-F-F-Y.
I wanna
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (32:21):
oh,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (32:21):
it.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (32:24):
I.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (32:24):
oh.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (32:25):
A lot of times they tell you you
need to look up these hashtagsbefore you put'em out there,
because sometimes people usethings to do like things.
Like I tried to use one forChristmas in July one time, and
it was really cute, and then Ilooked it up and it was some
xrated people had put out there.
I
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (32:41):
Well, fluffy.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (32:42):
put this out
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (32:43):
Fluffy with an extra f.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (32:45):
Well,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_1 (32:46):
I mean, have you looked at that
one?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (32:49):
no, but I'm sure
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (32:50):
Hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (32:51):
I don't know.
You know what,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (32:52):
Okay, well good luck with that.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (32:54):
we'll look back at this in a, in a
while and see what happens.
But if you
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (32:57):
Oh, geez.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (32:58):
it and I want to share it with us.
'cause I wanna see what you'vedone with these tips to see it.
'cause I'd love seeing, um, thisis, I haven't told y'all this,
but um.
I don't, I don't think I've toldyou it before, but one of the
number one things that we getemailed in, uh, are people are
so proud of what they've madewhen they get at home.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (33:15):
mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (33:16):
and they, and they love to share
pictures, and it's always sonice to see what people do
because they'll put thingstogether that I would've thought
would've not thought to do.
Uh, and I think it's alwaysjust, it's really nice to see
it.
So
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (33:29):
Hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (33:29):
love kind of doing that.
So, uh, share that with us andas always, we'll be back with a
new podcast next week.
If you have not downloaded ourmobile shopping app,
HouseFloral, it's down in theshow notes below, as well as all
of our social profiles.
and we will see you all againnext week.
Thanks guys.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (33:46):
All right.
Bye.
Hey friends, just a quick note
before we dive into today'sepisode.
This podcast was recorded beforethe recent storms and flooding
that hit our area and so manyother areas in the Midwest.
So if you hear us laughing andjoking or talking about the
weather in a way that feels alittle out of touch, please know
we were definitely not makinglight of what's happened.
(00:20):
Our thoughts, prayers and heartsare.
With everyone who's beenaffected, and we are working on
a way to help raise funds andsupport those in need.
So stay tuned for more on that.
Now let's get into the episode,and thanks as always for being
here with us.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (00:35):
I don't know if we're gonna be
here much later because the isting in the wind outside y'all.
I almost got blown off the, the
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (00:42):
Did you see Dorothy Shema?
Didn't she?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (00:44):
So I saw all kinds of Dorothy's and
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (00:46):
is the.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (00:46):
So when we're taping this people,
we are, we are taping it.
Pre hurricane, tornado monsoon,22 inches.
That gym said it is more rainthan we've ever seen in the
world.
And I was like, oh lord, that'scoming.
The monsoon.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (01:00):
said
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (01:00):
So when you listen to this,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (01:02):
that much
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (01:02):
yes.
When you listen to this, we maynot have a roof.
I don't know, but we're, we'regonna tape it and we'll, we'll
see how the weather turns out.
Late tonight.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (01:10):
yeah.
So y'all hunker down and we're
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (01:12):
Hunker down.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (01:13):
If it's, if it's raining, of
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (01:15):
Well,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (01:15):
y'all
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11 (01:15):
weather, look, they'll,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (01:16):
these
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (01:17):
they'll hear this weeks later.
So we buy, we, they, they don'tneed a hunker now.
Now they, it's done, right?
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (01:22):
paper.
These people are crazy in here.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (01:25):
That's true.
gonna be a code red there withtoilet paper if we don't get it
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (01:29):
It is./ Sabrina
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (02:32):
today's podcast was, influenced by our
suite audience member one, Kim.
Um, because in one of the pastlive sales.
I just pulled together somethings and put it together.
And then for the next three dayswent on and on about how
beautiful it was.
And then she said, how do youput these things together?
(02:54):
And I was like, well, I just putit together.
She's like, yeah, but how do youknow which texture?
Like, and she used that word,'cause you know, we use a lot.
She's like, how do you know whatflowers and textures and like,
how do you know what to puttogether that makes it or just
make this look work?
And I said, well.
You just, I just do it.
And I kind of explained it toher really quick.
And then I remembered that awhile back, we wrote a blog that
(03:18):
gave all of the steps and thelike the principles that I was
trying to explain to her of howto approach this.
And I thought, oh, this is agood little episode.
Because, you know, we've had,know we all have people that
come to us when they're in thestore and of course they look to
us for guidance and, you know.
and what to pick because theyfeel incredibly overwhelmed.
Right?
Like they don't know what to puttogether.
(03:39):
And I get it.
I, I didn't know what to puttogether.
I remember when, when I firststarted making fly arrangements,
I'd look at you two and you'd bemaking stuff and I'd be like,
oh, how did they make it look sopretty?
Because, you know, I didn't goto school for this.
Y'all didn't go to school forthis, but you had to learn
somewhere.
Right?
Well, how did you all learn?
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (03:55):
Mine was, um, I had a shop in
Lexington Mall.
And any of those that know that,that's a thousand years ago.
So it was a mall and I had ashop there and I had a few
little stems.
Again, I'm with you.
I didn't have this background.
I had a accounting background,so I sure didn't know how to
stick a fake flower in a pot.
Um, but I had stems and thislittle lady came by, uh, that
(04:16):
worked at, McGalin and so didStewart, by the way.
Not the same little lady, but,um, but still little lady.
And, uh.
Cute.
And her name was Darlene LickBlo.
And she was all of 92 pounds andshe wore a sweater in the
summer.
And glasses.
No, no, I'm not talking aboutStewart, I'm talking about
Darlene and glasses on thechain.
(04:37):
So funny.
And she was from, uh, it's gonnabe a long day, isn't it?
Uh, so she, uh, was from, uh,Amish, Pennsylvania, and she
said, how.
And I introduced and she said,I'd like to make flowers for you
for free on my break.
'cause I used to do this as afloral designer and I don't get
to do it any longer.
(04:57):
And I work at Melvins and I'mbored.
And I was like, oh no, no, Idon't wanna take advantage of
you.
And she said, no, no, no.
I wanna do it for free.
And I was like, Nope.
I.
And she asked three times andfinally she said, take that
broom closet and turn it into alittle closet for me and I'll
come and do it.
And I said, yes, and it ended upthat's who taught me how to make
flower arrangements.
And she, from the volunteerended up working for me three
(05:19):
days a week.
And that gave her joy and Ilearned from her.
But Darlene Lick Blau is whotaught me how to make flower
arrangements in the combinationDarlene.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (05:30):
Huh.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (05:31):
But
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (05:31):
I, I can
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (05:32):
but yours, that crazy Stewart?
Yeah.
How can you not forget that one?
I.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (05:35):
Uh, no, I, uh, I think I was in my
first year of college'cause Iwas still in Illinois and I
applied for a job at florist,you know, whatever.
Let's just do something.
And so as a part of theapplication, as they had, you
some flowers together and makesome flowers.
And I got done and was so proudof it.
(05:56):
And the lady looked at me andshe went, well that's horrible.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (06:01):
Wow.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (06:03):
And I said, fuck you.
I don't wanna work here.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (06:05):
Yeah.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (06:10):
So then that
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (06:11):
That's funny.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (06:12):
even
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (06:12):
Yeah,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (06:13):
it
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (06:13):
I love it.
There you go.
And what city was this in?
Was this Peoria?
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (06:20):
It was imp Peoria.
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (06:22):
Crash.
You didn't know what a good flyarrangement was.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (06:24):
she didn't.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (06:25):
That's right.
There you go.
There you go.
That's funny that the, thechallenge was laid at your feet,
wasn't it?
You're like, I will learn how todo this.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_1 (06:32):
I was like, fine.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (06:32):
So self-taught what I'm hearing on
that one.
Really.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (06:35):
much.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (06:36):
So I know that back in the day there
were like tutorials andFacebooks and those things and
many, many years ago.
So how did you, how did youself-teach?
You just bought stuff and playedwith it.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (06:46):
Oh yeah,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (06:47):
I.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (06:48):
then of course my mom, she's like,
you can do that.
So we would just go, you know,at the floral stations that we
had back then, floral stores,which wasn't lot in that town.
I
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1 (07:01):
Joanne's, which is gone now
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (07:02):
Ben Franklin,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (07:03):
Yeah,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (07:04):
at frankly.
Oh Lord.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (07:05):
That was the biggest one, was Ben
Franklin.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (07:07):
That's funny.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (07:08):
with stuff and did it.
And that's just how, how itwent.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (07:11):
Yeah, it really is true effort.
However, we will teach you thatnow.
Jeremy, what was yours?
I think yours is through osmosisbeing around us.
Talents is what, I guess,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (07:20):
Uh, absolutely.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (07:22):
Stuart?
jeremy-guest232_1_04- (07:22):
absorbing
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_1 (07:23):
I
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1 (07:24):
Absorbed.
Yes.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (07:24):
talent from you all.
Just taking it all in.
I just
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (07:28):
Oh, I love it.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (07:29):
as as a win, and then you just like
kinda develop your own style andeverything.
But, um,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (07:34):
we actually teach you or help you
or just just throw you in thereand make you do it?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (07:37):
Well, I mean, I really felt like y'all
threw me under the, not underthe bus.
It felt like y'all just threw meto the lines.
Um, but
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (07:44):
Sounds about right.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (07:46):
no, I mean, you all, you all did
take time to show and, um, youknow, at least what you all
understood, right?
Like how, what you all, you all,what you all did.
You, you did, you
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (07:56):
Yeah.
Even when we started workingtogether, Jeremy, I was far from
an expert.
I know that, that I was probablystill in this learning curve
because I didn't, you know, Ithought I was still
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (08:05):
is like for me at the time, you all
were experts, right?
So, I mean,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (08:07):
mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04 (08:08):
different.
So,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (08:09):
Right.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (08:10):
just kinda go.
So I guess my point to like allof that is like all, no matter
where we are on our journey,there's always so much for us to
learn.
And, and we could all, we allget easily over, get over
overwhelmed.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (08:23):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (08:24):
about like.
The anecdote about this is Iwent to this, and this is a true
story.
My husband and I went to thisrestaurant, uh, it was brand new
and it specialized in pizzas andsalads and you could do like
gourmet pizzas and salads.
And they had it like up on themenu.
They had, uh, these pre-madechoices they could do, but none
of them really like.
(08:45):
Make sounded really good to me.
I thought, I'll do this.
I know what I'm doing.
I know what foods I like.
I'll make a salad.
And so I just started puttingall kinds of stuff on the salad,
and then they had some kind ofspecial seasoning and house
dressing and listen, that saladcame out and I was supposed to
eat it.
I couldn't eat it.
It was awful.
It was just the biggestsmorgasbord of disaster.
(09:06):
I was so embarrassed about howbad it was never been back.
Yeah.
Uh, but, and it wasn't becauseembarrassment of, of them
looking at me like, oh God, whatstyle did he make?
It was more of me just beingembarrassed of myself, being
like, I, you know, I thoughtthat I could do this.
And so what I don't want to dois I wanna make sure we give
people the tools to help themtheir own things and be able to
(09:29):
put things together.
Because I know as much as welike to make arrangements and
sell'em, we don't wanna makeevery arrangement in the world,
right?
Like we, we,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (09:37):
No people.
This is people's joy to do some,some people want to do this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (09:42):
that's where this kind of came from.
'cause I knew, I could see inKim's eyes that she really
wanted to learn how to do this,and she really wanted to
understand, right?
So she could do
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (09:50):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (09:51):
and then have that
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (09:51):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (09:53):
we've all been there, we've all
started a project where wethought, we just knew we could
do it.
And then at the end of it we'relike, oh God.
That was
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (10:00):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (10:00):
so I'm trying to like, how can we
take that away for, you know,take
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (10:03):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (10:04):
people.
So that's really what this isall about.
So in the blog, which I don'teven know, I think Dwayne, you
might have read it at some pointin the past, Stuart, I
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (10:13):
yeah.
Oh yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (10:14):
a chance to read it.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then there's no hate,there's no judgment in that
because listeners, 90% of whatgoes online or used to go
online.
I did it all and I just kind ofdid it.
And then they were like, oh,that's great.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (10:28):
that's
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (10:28):
just do it.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (10:28):
Well look, you ramble on all the
time.
So last thing, I want to
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (10:32):
know,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (10:32):
read your crap.
So yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (10:34):
So well this is going back to a, a
blog and so I thought I'd walkyou through what was in it and
we'd had the conversation aboutputting it together.
And so it's on our, website andI'll put the link down in the
show notes, uh, so people canactually click it.
'cause you can actually seevisual, Representations of
what's actually talked about inthat.
But there's four principles thatto
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (10:56):
Now this is a podcast about a
tutorial,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (10:59):
No, it's
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (10:59):
about a block.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (11:00):
it's a discussion.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (11:01):
How convoluted can this be?
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (11:04):
Next, there'll be a YouTube video
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (11:06):
Yeah, there you go.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (11:06):
They'll be Facebook, they'll be, well, I
mean, you, you know, I got, yougotta put it out in different
ways because people hear itdifferent ways and it's just,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (11:13):
Okay.
Okay.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (11:13):
don't wanna read.
So
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (11:15):
Well,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (11:16):
So we'll just, we'll just talk,
rod.
Yeah, there we go.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (11:18):
to, a lady yesterday and she was
like, oh, I've, I've stoppedsocial media.
I've read five books since March3rd.
And I went, you've, you've readmore books since March than I
did when I was in college.
And after you know, reading'sjust not my thing.
Right?
So I'm much more visual andaudio like I, you know, I'd
rather have that.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (11:36):
I'm pulling a Kanye.
I'm not gonna read.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (11:40):
So
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (11:40):
it up.
If you know what that means.
Look it up
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (11:43):
Right.
Look it up.
Um, before we can get to
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (11:45):
and read about it.
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (11:47):
unquote formula, right?
And this is just a general, likethis is a good starter point,
right?
So this is not
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (11:55):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (11:55):
how to make every arrangement, but
this is just to help you get a,a, a, a start, right?
To understand how to put thethings together.
We'll get to the formula in asecond, but because I think you
have to understand like the.
The principles first.
You gotta crawl before you walk,right?
So this is kind of that.
So the four principles, um,they're, they're really quite
simple.
The first one is be intentional.
(12:16):
And this goes along with that.
Me putting all that stuff in thesalad that I thought that I knew
that I liked.
And there was a bunch of stuffthat I did like, but it just
didn't work together.
So, you know, I don't needanother soundbar disaster.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (12:28):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (12:29):
So pick, you're gonna pick things
intentionally and you, when youdo pick things intentionally,
you'll, you know, pick'em withan intention from what the, the
formula is.
And then the next one is,everything that you use should
have a purpose or a role.
So it's kind of like, um, whenit comes to bands, not everybody
can be the lead singer, right?
But you do need a lead singerand you need backup singers, and
(12:50):
you need the band, and you needall that, right?
And you get, have too many egosand then the bands blow up,
right?
And then the
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (12:57):
Yep.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (12:57):
kind of quick principles are the
first one I said I learned inkindergarten, which was true,
uh, which was keep it short andsimple, right?
So you don't need to put.
75 colors in an arrangementbecause you're gonna get really
overwhelmed,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (13:08):
Hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (13:08):
again, this is starting, right?
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (13:10):
Right.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (13:10):
in it as you get more comfortable,
but when you're starting, Ialways say keep it like two to
three.
I love me a monochromatic.
arrangement or, you know, add,add you a little bit more.
'cause the joke I made was noteverybody could wear that coat
of many colors, right?
I'm sure Dolly rocked that whenshe was a kid.
I would look like a hot assmess, right?
(13:33):
so just to try to, keep it shortand simple and then connect the
dots.
And so what it means by that isif you have the two or three
colors.
You connect the one to theother.
Okay?
So you'll use things that have,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (13:45):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (13:45):
those two colors on the very skim.
That is kind of like those fourprinciples.
And those are basicunderstandings of, okay, keep it
short, keep it simple, keep itlimited.
Let connect the colors andeverything's gonna be important.
So you just can't throw all thesalad bar dressings in there.
That's simple
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (14:04):
A common thread in everything we
say.
Less is more.
Less is more.
Less is more
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (14:08):
Well, you
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (14:09):
This is what it's about.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (14:10):
This morning the lady was in and she
had a wreath that she wanted toput in front door, and she goes,
well, I'm not fussy and I don'twant it overdone.
but here's the wreath.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (14:19):
that how she talked, by the way?
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (14:20):
She did.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (14:21):
How she talked?
Yeah.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (14:22):
heard
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (14:23):
Yeah,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (14:23):
She was sweet.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (14:24):
yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (14:25):
um, she goes, but I need ribbon.
Well, the ribbon she had, one ofthe ladies had picked up with
her was this really smallribbon.
And then they were like, whatribbons do we put with it?
And I'm like, well, do, you saidyou didn't want it fussy.
You didn't want, so we don'tneed to put all these things
together.
Let's keep it more edited andthen that'll be perfect for her.
So, yeah.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (14:43):
Did it fly?
Did she, was she okay with youridea?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (14:45):
we picked it together.
Yeah.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (14:47):
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Good.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (14:48):
those things where you just don't
know.
It was standing in front of thesalad bar.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (14:50):
Mm-hmm.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (14:51):
Well, it's funny because as she was
checking out, I was up there,she said, I'm buying things with
intention.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (14:57):
Mm
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (14:58):
good.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (14:59):
the word of the
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (15:00):
Okay.
That's random.
Yeah.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (15:02):
She goes,'cause I don't need shit.
So if I'm gonna buy it, gonnahave a purpose.
And that was her follow up.
I said, well thanks for stoppingby.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (15:13):
I'm okay with.
Yeah, I'm okay with that.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (15:15):
Yeah,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (15:15):
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (15:15):
that.
I used to anything.
I went into home Goods and itwas a really good price.
I knew that it was a good valueand I could use it for client's
house at some point.
I always bought it.
bought it, and I just had pilesof shit
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (15:25):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (15:26):
I ended up selling it.
Yard sales,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (15:28):
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (15:29):
I don't do it
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (15:29):
Yeah.
Barb, love your yard sales.
Love your yard sales.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (15:33):
yeah.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (15:33):
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (15:34):
we had good ones.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (15:35):
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (15:36):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (15:36):
that anymore though.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (15:37):
Lord.
No,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (15:38):
No.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (15:39):
uhm.
right, so let's talk about the,um, the recipe, if you will, the
formula, and I call
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (15:46):
Okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (15:48):
which I think is funny, but it's
spelled F-L-U-F-F-F-Y.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (15:53):
Well, when you said that it felt
sexual to me and how you dispelit out, it feels even more
sexual.
stuart-host483_1_04-02- (15:58):
there's a fluffer, so
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (16:00):
what that is?
Okay.
I Why?
I thought,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (16:03):
So
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (16:03):
you know.
Okay.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (16:04):
that
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:05):
Okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (16:06):
Well, you
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:06):
Okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (16:07):
that is
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (16:08):
Yeah,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (16:08):
all how I, how I
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:10):
Well,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (16:11):
There
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:11):
okay, moving on.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (16:12):
mean.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (16:12):
commit.
Commit.
There was some big comedian, notsay big, there was a larger man
comedian and I can't rememberwhat his name is, but he, you
know, he was a heavier set dude.
And he was say, I'm not fat, I'mfluffy.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (16:22):
Louie
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:23):
Okay,
stuart-host483_1_04-0 (16:23):
Anderson.
Was that, I think that was LouieAnderson.
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (16:27):
I hear the word fluffy, I just
think of like a big band.
stuart-host483_1_04-02- (16:29):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:30):
we're just gonna go with that.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (16:32):
Yeah,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:32):
We're gonna go with that one.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (16:33):
so I was like, well, hmm,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (16:35):
Oh Lord,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (16:36):
let's, what's that say
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (16:38):
like, yeah,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (16:40):
oh,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (16:40):
times.
Good times.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_1 (16:41):
I mean.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (16:43):
so, each letter stands for
something, right.
And again, all this is in the,in the blog, but this is just
the discussion.
So.
first F is for fluffy foliage.
Okay.
And what you'll see when you getto the next one is foliage are
the first two.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (16:57):
Now, I don't think you're supposed to
use the anagram word in thedescription word as well.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (17:02):
Well, no, listen, I didn't write the
rules.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (17:04):
it foliage?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (17:05):
You could foliage fine
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (17:07):
Okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (17:07):
what?
The really two, the F.
The f and L are foliage andleafy foliage, right?
So it is basically
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_1 (17:14):
a lot of f and l going on, so.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (17:18):
The first two are for and so you
don't need, if, if you're juststarting out, you
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (17:26):
So wrong.
This, this podcast is going offthe rails.
Okay.
Okay.
Here we go.
Start over.
Okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (17:33):
We have
stuart-host483_1_04-02 (17:33):
Foliage.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (17:34):
two.
Okay, so you,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (17:36):
Then what's the l?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (17:41):
Foliage and leafy F Basically it's two
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (17:44):
Oh,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (17:44):
There's two different kinds of greeners.
Just, just listen and
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (17:46):
this anagram is stupid.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (17:48):
Well,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (17:51):
Leafs are foliage.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (17:53):
okay, but each letter stands for
something to put to pull intoyour arrangement.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (17:59):
Okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (18:00):
my point was.
kinds of greenery is usually agood place to start.
You don't need eight, need
stuart-host483_1_04-02 (18:08):
They're.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (18:10):
start with two.
And you're pretty good.
And so the reason why they'redifferent is it's, you want
something structurallydifferent.
You want the shape of themdifferent, right?
So think lemon leaf, you have alarger leaf, and let's say you
put asparagus fern with it.
So you've got something fluffylike that's what the asparagus
fern is, right?
And you've got the biggerfoliage.
So that's why there's twodifferent ones they stand for.
(18:30):
Something floppy or floppy orhangy or whatever.
And then the other one's a leaf,like a more
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (18:34):
Again, it goes back to the fluffy, the
first version, but that's okay.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_1 (18:37):
I mean,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (18:38):
But with that said, it's different.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (18:40):
are we gonna,
jeremy-guest232_1_04 (18:41):
asparagus.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (18:41):
how, how are we gonna strengthen
this?
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (18:45):
We're, we're, we're, oh my God,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (18:47):
gotta
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (18:48):
we're doing different textures.
There's different, one is, um,it is just different textures is
what you're saying, basically.
Okay.
Two different textures,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (18:56):
you
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (18:56):
two different textures.
jeremy-guest232_1_04- (18:57):
different textures.
And then also we, we talkedabout the color.
So you also want something thatmaybe is slightly different than
the other because there's noreason to put two items in
something if they're the samecolor and the same size.
'cause then you lose your
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (19:11):
You like a darker green and a more
bright green of some, somedifference, some variation,
right?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (19:16):
leaf first allow, or a ruscus, and
you've got a darker green inthat, right?
And then again, you can then putFern, that's a completely
different color, right?
You've, it's a
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (19:23):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (19:24):
it's a different
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (19:25):
Yep.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (19:25):
So it's
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (19:26):
Okay.
Got it.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (19:26):
like mixing those two together,
right?
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (19:28):
Okay, so we've got our, we've got our
F and our L.
There we go.
We're good.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (19:32):
okay.
The U stands for up.
do you need something vertical?
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (19:37):
there we go.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (19:39):
Mm, mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (19:41):
I think
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (19:41):
Um,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (19:42):
is gonna say much more about you
to, than it is
stuart-host483_1_04-02- (19:44):
Listen, there is an explicit rating and
you are just talking about allthese words that have different
meanings
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (19:51):
mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (19:52):
Oh my God.
Okay, so the U is for branch.
So the is for branches orheight, or do you want, do you
use delphiniums or do you use,you know, something vertical,
right.
Well, what do
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (20:02):
You need like a good wood piece
basically, right.
That's what we're talking about.
Yeah.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (20:07):
right?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (20:08):
like the.
Lord.
Okay.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (20:15):
shit.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (20:16):
Okay,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (20:17):
Okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (20:18):
I always say that when I start an
arrangement, I always figure outhow tall I'm gonna make it
first.
Like that's where I start.
I'm gonna get my height, andthen I'm gonna figure out my
width.
That's usually like, I'll do thewhatever, branches, whatever.
I'll start with that and thenI'll do my, so that's like the
first three steps.
Is that how
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (20:33):
So size matters.
Size matters when, how tall youwant this to be,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (20:37):
all.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (20:37):
does, because there's a link.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (20:39):
What right?
Girth.
Right?
So those, those change things.
How you want it in the flowerarrangement.
Okay, we got it.
Okay.
We're getting it.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (20:47):
Okay.
What's the next F?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (20:50):
when you, I'm just wondering, this is
how I make an arrangement.
How do you all do it?
Do you, do you do the same?
How do you all approach it?
As far as like the fir, like thedo you
stuart-host483_1_04-02- (20:56):
Height.
I go to height first.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (20:58):
Yeah,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (20:59):
That's me.
I do height first.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (21:00):
What about you, Dwayne?
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (21:02):
Uh, I fill it in.
I always stick to Magnolialeaves in there and that's where
I start
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (21:05):
Okay.
You.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (21:06):
always the base.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (21:07):
place.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (21:07):
do.
999 times outta 9,000.
I stick magnolia leaf in it andthat's my start right there.
That's why everything I do looksthe same.
There you go.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (21:16):
Now the rest of this is not
necessarily, this is the orderthat you have to put it into the
arrangement, but that's justpulling the, the items that you
need.
So the, the first F is yourfocal flower.
So, and again, we're imagineyou've got a big arrangement and
there's always, like, in mymind, there's always an
arrangement or there's always aflower in it that's like the
(21:37):
star, right?
There's always like, if it's abig Dahlia, if it's a big,
beautiful peony, like there'ssomething that, that's like the
big anchor.
The main star of it, right?
So that's the Beyonce, right?
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (21:48):
Yeah.
Beyonce.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (21:49):
So you gotta pick one, lead thing.
So I always say if you have oneof those leads, then you can do
their, their friends or liketheir backup singers that that
are smaller.
as dramatic that you can putwith it.
So if you had a big peony andyou were doing it in, you could
do some PE Andy Buds, right?
You can do some roses, smallerones, but they're all in the
(22:11):
same kind of colorway thatyou're looking at.
So if you're doing a and let'ssay you wanna do three colors,
you're doing coral, yellow, andgreen.
So green in my mind's, alwaysone of the colors.
'cause you know, green greeneryis always gonna be part of it
one way or another, right?
So if you use coral and yellow,let's say you have a coral.
Big coral peony.
Well then the roses that youpick could be, have a little bit
(22:33):
of coral and yellow in them,right?
Or they could be just yellow.
They just start pulling thosethings together so they all just
kind of meld together to do allthe work.
Right.
So
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (22:42):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (22:43):
so that gets us to fl UFF, the last
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (22:49):
Wait, what's the second?
F Friends?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (22:52):
Mm-hmm.
stuart-host483_1_04-02- (22:52):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (22:52):
Mm-hmm.
Friends.
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (22:54):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (22:55):
friend flowers.
And then the last one is fillerflower.
And for me, this is more of, Idon't, I don't think any of our
styles are in a of, uh, or are.
Based on the idea of having 7million flower stems.
Is that fair?
Like, I don't, like none of usare trying to go in and make
these, the image that comes tomind is always like the real
(23:15):
housewives of Beverly Hillswomen.
Like they have these big, likeoverly stuffed rows.
Pee and e just ridiculous allblooms arrangements.
Well, no, people don't have thisin their home like this.
That's not unless you havesomebody coming in and doing
fresh arrangements for you allthe time, but that's just not
necessarily the style.
Ours is usually always kind ofcut and gathered, right?
So the filler, in my mind isalways a hydrangea that I go to
(23:36):
because the hydrangea is a greatway to fill in a large part of
the arrangement, add you somecolor and texture, but it
doesn't make it super busy.
So I would, I would sayprobably, I'm gonna say 90% of
the time, 95, maybe even 95%.
I always use hydrangeas.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (23:54):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (23:55):
are you,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (23:55):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (23:55):
you say that
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (23:56):
Mm-hmm.
I do.
Yep.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (23:58):
covers space
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02- (23:59):
Uhhuh, it covers
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (24:00):
Mm-hmm.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_ (24:01):
It fills in dead spots.
Yeah.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (24:03):
And almost, almost everybody likes a
hydrangea, right?
Sometimes I'll go grab Rose andgo, oh, I don't like roses.
Or I'll go grab, um, I don'tknow, poppy.
Oh, I don't like poppies.
I'm like, yeah, or tulips.
How could you not like a tulip?
But there's people out therethat don't like tulips, so
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (24:19):
Yeah,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (24:19):
almost everybody likes a hydrangea
that, no, I, I think I've donetwo arrangements.
It's like I've made them andit's like, oh, I love everything
about, about those hydrangeas,and I'm like, oh.
It's not the color.
She just didn't like hydrangeas,and it's like, oh, okay, okay.
I'll take it out, put somethingelse in.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (24:36):
Hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (24:36):
Hmm.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (24:36):
mean, just change it and move on.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (24:38):
Yeah.
Well, I, in my mind, you couldnever go wrong with a hydrangea.
And you, hydrangeas are one ofthose really good stems that you
can do to connect, uh, colors
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (24:46):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (24:47):
there's a depth in the hydrangea where
you've got, it's not just solidone color, right?
You've got a little bit of arange of
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (24:52):
Well, at the point of the taping.
This, we've got a blue hydrangeathat's a real touch.
That is incredible.
I mean, totally incredible.
And then you just got a newwhite one in, not as incredible
as the blue one, but it's apretty good white hydrangea too.
Uh, so I'm happy with, uh,basically if you gimme those two
colors, I'd probably make anyarrangement with those two
(25:14):
colors, hydrangeas.
Yeah, I'm happy with those.
Yep.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (25:17):
All right, so you've got your
foliage, you've got yourbranches or whatever you're
using to get some height.
You have your star flour, youhave your backup singers, and
you've got the filler.
So think like a hydrangea.
And so I always say the lastthing that you can add to it is
something for texture.
So I call it your choice is whatthe Y is for, is your choice.
So if you want to add berries orseeum or something, that's a
(25:38):
little architectural to it, soit's not more flower heads.
Does that make
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (25:42):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (25:43):
So that helps.
It never feels somebody comes upto you and, well, actually, I
just had a phone call with acustomer last week.
She said, um, she called in, shewas ordering online and she
said, okay, I need some help.
I'm gonna send you a picture ofa bouquet.
am making the bouquet for mywedding and I just dunno what I
need.
And she goes, and I have$450worth of stuff in my cart.
(26:04):
And
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (26:04):
You don't need that.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (26:05):
and I said, okay.
And I was like, you know, Isaid, I'm not trying to get real
personal, but.
What size dress are you wearing?
you know, uh, and she was like,oh, like I, I, I wear a size
two.
And I was like, okay, babe, wegot way too many flowers.
Like I'm, you know, you try totake that
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (26:22):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (26:22):
account for if, if they want a bigger
bouquet or whatever.
And I was like, yeah, no, weneed to pull this back.
So she gave me her list.
There was 34 items that she wasordering.
I was like, okay, let's, let's,let's pull this down.
We're gonna, so, and I helpedher out and, and, and did it.
Um, but it was like, you just,you keep, you just feel like you
just keep pulling, right?
You do one of this,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (26:41):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (26:42):
you can do that if you are, if you
feel really confident in yourstyling, right?
I think
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (26:46):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (26:47):
can
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (26:47):
Right.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (26:48):
but when you're not and you're
trying to figure it out, I wannabuild you up in a way that you
can do this and then feel, youknow, positive about your
ability and so that you canbuild up to where you can add
all the different stuff.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (26:59):
So what, what positive is on that
conversation is part of it isthose who are.
Local that are in our world.
Obviously they can come in hereand we can guide them all day
long, but if you are outta stateand you're listening or outta
the country and listening topodcasts, you can reach out to,
um, Jeremy primarily, uh, and hecan either do a phone call or he
(27:20):
can email you or text you andguide you a little bit and give
you a little more suggestions onsomething so you're not out
there stuck on your own.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (27:27):
Well, I
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (27:28):
Right.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (27:29):
I'm not gonna say no, but my hope is
listening to this and readingthe podcast that they don't even
have to reach out.
I'm hoping that they can do iton their own,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (27:36):
Well that's, that's a good point.
That's a good point.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (27:37):
I mean, we're happy to help.
That's what we're here for.
Right.
But, um, I want to, I want toget them to a place where they
feel like they can make thesedecisions so they don't feel
like
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (27:45):
Mm-hmm.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (27:45):
Right.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (27:46):
your clients tway, that they can't
pick out a pair of underwear.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (27:49):
Thank you for that.
Um, so with that said, I'llbuild you up while you tear me
down.
What I heard from that is youtook the time victim, uh, that
you took the time to actuallyundersell, right?
Because she did not need tospend that much money.
And I have to believe also togive your credit, that's why you
have nearly 7,000 positivereviews online because of.
(28:13):
The positive experience thatyou're doing.
And I don't think there's a lotof, uh, online, website, uh,
websites out there that sellproduct would take the time to
guide somebody
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (28:23):
Yeah.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (28:24):
and put'em in and say, and by the
way, I'm helping you, giving youfree advice, and I'm telling you
to spend less.
And that's why they get you andthey get us because of what
you're doing.
So thank you.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (28:35):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (28:36):
that as you tear me down.
That's okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (28:38):
Well, thank you.
Well, we had a customer, I had acustomer call in the other day
on our, uh, customer serviceline and answer.
She goes, huh, are you theJeremy?
She's, and I was like, uh, yes.
And she's like, I think youpacked my order.
And I was like, maybe'cause you,my stamp is on it.
she's like, I can't believe Icalled and I get you all.
And I'm like, well.
It's only, there's not that manyof us up around here running
(29:00):
this
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (29:00):
Right.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (29:00):
this.
You got us baby?
Um, okay.
So if people use kind of core,principles, right?
Keep it, keep it short andsimple.
Keep, connect your colors.
be intentful when you pullingout your stuff.
And then.
Figure out where you can placethose stems to do that.
I think you will be able to keepit un like not overly
(29:23):
complicated, because overlycomplicated is when stress comes
in.
When you say like, I feel likethat's always where people start
second guessing themselves andthen it's a disaster.
The only other kind of key pointI wanna mention to this is that
for me, and I think we really doa really good job of this is
that greenery is as, is asimportant as your flower stems
(29:44):
that you use.
Don't
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (29:44):
Yeah, I think almost more sometimes
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (29:48):
I, I'm with you.
That
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (29:49):
more
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (29:49):
it?
Mm-hmm.
stuart-host483_1_04-02 (29:50):
texture, more of the
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (29:52):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (29:54):
yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (29:54):
Mm-hmm.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (29:55):
more.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_1151 (29:55):
Agree.
Yeah.
We put more effort and thoughtinto that and more decision, uh,
absolutely could not, uh, agreewith you more.
A hundred percent.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (30:03):
it,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (30:04):
And like if you, if you love you a
good Magnolia, we, you, you'renot gonna beat what we have,
right?
We, you're just not gonna beatit.
And we got that new lemon leafsout and I don't know if we've
sold out, if it's coming back.
Uh, I think you have it onlineand not in the store currently,
but we can always get you some.
It's the most.
Perfect lemon leaf I've everseen in my life.
(30:25):
So I'll ask this.
When we, uh, when you post this,um, can you have those images up
to where people can see whatwe're talking about?
The, the, the, the magnolia andthe lemon leaf or some ha
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (30:34):
Yeah, absolutely.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (30:35):
I'm gonna ask if you can't That's
okay.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (30:37):
Yeah, no, and what what I'll do is in
the, in the show notes, like Isaid below, it'll have the link
to the, the blog so you canactually see visual
representations.
And they actually, in the imagesof the blog, they actually have,
products that are tagged in it,so they can actually see, like
piecing it together.
But then I'll make a, a littlecollection where of the things
that we've talked about thatpeople can see, uh, the, the
(30:58):
items that we've kind ofmentioned in here too.
That's
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (31:00):
So circle back
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02 (31:01):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (31:02):
you have two different kinds of
textures of greenery.
You have one Beyonce.
Right.
One backup singer, right?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (31:12):
know, a couple of backup
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (31:13):
Or two?
Two, two backup singers.
You've got two backup singersand a you.
That's your choice of, look atme listening, right?
A berry,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (31:22):
a
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (31:22):
a filler.
A filler, a berry, and a seeumor something like that.
You're on your way, right?
You are really on your way.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (31:29):
And that's what this, again, I was
trying to like give you all aheads up, but before I was like,
this is not trying to telleverybody how to make every
flower arrangement.
Like you have to have
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (31:36):
No, no.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (31:37):
but this is like, okay, we're on
our, we're on our littletraining bike, right?
We're gonna pull out our things,our, our stems, and we're gonna
build our confidence.
This is, I think, a pretty foolproof way of trying to pull the
right kind of stems that, thatare gonna work together.
That's not gonna make it overlycomplicated, and it will make
them excited when they'refinished making arrangements.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (31:58):
I, I think we got this.
We can do this.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (32:00):
Yeah, we can do this.
So here's
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (32:01):
Yeah.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (32:01):
cha, challenge the people that are
listening.
If you have made arrangements oryou do make arrangements in the
future, I want you to post themon Instagram or
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (32:10):
Oh,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (32:10):
'em on Facebook, and I want you to
put'em with the ha.
You can tag us in it and thenput the hashtag fluffy,
F-L-U-F-F-F-Y.
I wanna
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (32:21):
oh,
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (32:21):
it.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (32:24):
I.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (32:24):
oh.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (32:25):
A lot of times they tell you you
need to look up these hashtagsbefore you put'em out there,
because sometimes people usethings to do like things.
Like I tried to use one forChristmas in July one time, and
it was really cute, and then Ilooked it up and it was some
xrated people had put out there.
I
stuart-host483_1_04-02-20 (32:41):
Well, fluffy.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (32:42):
put this out
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2 (32:43):
Fluffy with an extra f.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (32:45):
Well,
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025_1 (32:46):
I mean, have you looked at that
one?
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (32:49):
no, but I'm sure
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (32:50):
Hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025_ (32:51):
I don't know.
You know what,
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_11513 (32:52):
Okay, well good luck with that.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2 (32:54):
we'll look back at this in a, in a
while and see what happens.
But if you
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115137 (32:57):
Oh, geez.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-2025 (32:58):
it and I want to share it with us.
'cause I wanna see what you'vedone with these tips to see it.
'cause I'd love seeing, um, thisis, I haven't told y'all this,
but um.
I don't, I don't think I've toldyou it before, but one of the
number one things that we getemailed in, uh, are people are
so proud of what they've madewhen they get at home.
dwayne_1_04-02-2025_115 (33:15):
mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-202 (33:16):
and they, and they love to share
pictures, and it's always sonice to see what people do
because they'll put thingstogether that I would've thought
would've not thought to do.
Uh, and I think it's alwaysjust, it's really nice to see
it.
So
stuart-host483_1_04-02-202 (33:29):
Hmm.
jeremy-guest232_1_04-02-20 (33:29):
love kind of doing that.
So, uh, share that with us andas always, we'll be back with a
new podcast next week.
If you have not downloaded ourmobile shopping app,
HouseFloral, it's down in theshow notes below, as well as all
of our social profiles.
and we will see you all againnext week.
Thanks guys.
stuart-host483_1_04-02-2025 (33:46):
All right.
Bye.
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