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Class is in Season – May, June & July Classes

This Spring and Summer spend your Saturdays with us. See what we do and learn how to do it. Our master designer, Mike Hines will be teaching classes all summer long. Reserve your spot today. Call 312.226.2968 to reserve your spot. A variety of classes are being offered through out the summer. See the schedule and [...]

Mother’s Day – Design Your Own Flowers!

On Saturday, May 8th, 2010 we are opening up our studio for kids (and the young at heart) to make their mom a flower arrangement and card! We invite you, your kids and friends to make your own arrangement and card for mommy (registration required). We will provide flowers, tools, a vase and paper to [...]

Small is the new Large

Spring, a time of renewal.  Spring, a launch of new thoughts and adventures.  Spring 2010, playing it safe with the Ben Franklin’s and re-evaluating whats important.  Yes, we love to entertain from small dinners to a large soirée.  But, has the large event, you know the kind, the one you were invited to that blew your mind yet [...]

An ode to my mom

When I was a kid my mom grew an amaryllis every winter.  I like to carry on the same tradition.   I’m sure that to many the type of person who grows amaryllis in their home is the same person who lives with 6 longhair rescue cats (and sleeps in the bed with them), watches [...]

Timeout

I took this shot last summer.  I was walking along Michigan Avenue and came across this monarch butterfly.  It was floating around on the breeze and occasionally landing on the blooms of various flowers growing in the sidewalk planters.  I stopped and enjoyed a few moments of it’s playful antics, took this photo, and continued [...]

January ‘Flowers’

This beautiful mass of flowers hangs in the windows of the newest Anthropologie in Block 37 on State Street.  They are made of plastic bottles and cups which have been colored and cut into a multitude of different shades and shapes.  It encompasses two floors of windows, forming a gigantic circle, and is truly amazing. [...]

Valentine’s Day

It’s almost here! The most romantic day of the year… Valentine’s Day. We’ve just updated our site with a special Valentine’s Day page where you can easily order your sweetheart an elegant arrangement.

Fall… Falling

Fall Carnations

Fall, a great time of year for so many reasons; crisp air, stunning color, warm comfort food, the best of seasonal farmers markets, stunning flowers….Unfortunately it doesn’t last and the quake of depression sets in upon the arrival of winter. I’ve never met anyone who hates Fall – that’s nice. I’ve never meet anyone who [...]

Felt it up

Hard Graft Laptop Case

You may notice we have a love of all things grey here at epoch… and I personally have a serious obsession with grey felt (and apparently shopping). I can’t remember how I stumbled across Hard Graft. It may have at one time been on etsy.com, but no longer is. I have drooled over their felt and [...]

pendant of wooden ribbon

lamps by Bonne Nuit

A friend of mine emailed me this link a week or two ago. http://www.bonnenuithome.com/ I have a tendancey to not really look at emails… so I flag them and get back to it later, which happens every couple of weeks. Not so great at the email thing. Anywho, I finally went to the link today [...]