Ruby Red Hot

Tampa Bay Illustrated
February 2006 Issue
by TBI Staff

Style

Your Valentine's date will be smokin' in these ruby and diamond baubles from the Bay area's finest jewelers.

Stefan Hafner ring from AvantGold Jewelers, Carrollwood; necklace and matching earrings, Cappello & Co, Belleair Bluffs; art deco pin and square earrings, Continental Jewelry, Tampa.

Bouquet Garni

Bearing gifts with flowery notes is good, but sending flower arrangements ahead of the dinner party is even better. Organic Bouquet will door-deliver Californiagrown lavender, long-stemmed calla lilies, and roses in a spectrum of reds. Whether to a charming hostess or a loving valentine, the gift of eco-friendly thoughtfulness is double do-gooding. organicbouquet.com

Persona Grata

Why stop at giving them your name and number? Now your business card can bear your likeness - from your skin tone to hair and eye color to designer outfits complete with accessories. Design-her Gals, an innovative new stationery design company with the contemporary woman in mind, creates unique invitations, note cards and calling cards with your caricature and pithy sayings like: "Met you last night, said you would call ..."" Now that should get you remembered from singles night. designhergals.com

Sustainable Flowers Make The Perfect Gift For All Occasions

Organic Bouquet is the largest online provider of eco-friendly and organic floral gifts. All of our flowers are grown in a manner that is not only environmentally friendly but also provides outstanding resources for farm workers and artisans. Organic Bouquet partners with select flower farms in California, Ecuador and Colombia. All of our flower farms follow stringent growing practices which are monitored by multiple certification agencies and associations. When you purchase flowers from Organic Bouquet, you are helping to improve the life of a flower farm worker, their family and the local floral community.

Our eco-friendly flower arrangements include roses, calla lilies, tulips, gerbera daisies, hyacinths, sunflowers, alstromeria lilies and blue iris. In addition to a complete line of flower arrangements, we offer gift baskets, fruit baskets, nut baskets, gourmet chocolates, gourmet cookies, plants and wreaths. All of these products are certified eco-friendly and/or provide for environmental benefits through our participation in Carbon Offset programs.

Whatever the occasion, our flowers make the perfect gift- birthday celebration flowers, anniversary flowers, holiday flowers, or floral arrangements simply to say thank you. Sending flowers from Organic Bouquet says that you care not only about the person receiving the flowers, but also about the environment. All of our gift items are shipped nationwide to all 50 states. So whether you need to send flowers to Florida, New York, California, or Colorado, we can guarantee overnight delivery to ensure they arrive fresh and ready to put a smile on someone’s face.

Whether you are purchasing online, or through one of our customer service specialists, you can be assured you are ordering the freshest quality of flowers and environmentally friendly gifts.