#except this is seaside england and that is country usa

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summerland is basically the polar opposite of fried green tomatoes 

#two women in the fourties raising a boy together #except this is seaside england and that is country usa #also nobody dies (except the husband who's not an asshole in this one) and nobody loses limbs #and the oldies are the protagonists #fried green tomatoes #summerland #fgt is still one of my fav movies tho #this one had no excuses when it comes to showing kisses onscreen #angie rants #ignore

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Florabundance Inspirational Design Days 2019 is now open for registration!

  We are excited to share the sixth annual Florabundance Inspirational Design Days is now open for registration!

The event will take place in Santa Barbara, California on January 14-16, 2019. The venue is the Santa Barbara wedding destination location, the Santa Barbara Woman’s Club, with outdoor patios, rustic & historical architecture, fireplaces, and a full stage. The area is lush and green with much local flora and fauna. There is plenty of room for us to work and play with our flowers.

This conference will provide workshops focusing on inspirational designing, the industry’s latest trends, social media expertise, the business end of floral, and more. Plus, an incredible bounty of exquisite flowers to design with at your fingertips!

The three day event will feature the following Designers and Presenters: Kiana Underwood of Tulipina, Hitomi Gilliam AIFD, PFCI, Holly Chapple of Holly Heider Chapple Flowers, Brian Watson of Myrtie Blue, Alicia Schwede of Flirty Fleurs, and Jessica Zimmerman. *Celebrated as an industry TOP PHOTOGRAPHER, Corbin Gurkin will be joining us during Design Days 2019. This is an experience you cannot miss!

Come let the beauty of the American Riviera inspire your work to reach new heights!

Included: – All cut flowers used during the event and design sessions – Seven Unique Design & Educational Sessions (including all necessary materials) – Professional photos of your curated designs – Daily lunch and a wonderful closing dinner – Opening Night Meet & Greet plus Wine Tasting at the Fess Parker Resort, Sunday, January 13th in the evening. – $250.00 flower credit to be applied to your first or next floral order with Florabundance, to be used after the completion of Design Days 2019.. – Tour of Florabundance including breakfast, product presentations, and networking opportunities – Transportation to and from the Fess Parker Resort to the event locations (by bus) – Transportation from the airport provided by Fess Parker Resort (arranged with the resort)

Registration is now open for 2019! Register for Design Days 2019 in the Florabundance online store by clicking here. If you need further information or have any questions please contact your floral consultant at Florabundance – 1-800-201-3597

Hotel Reservations: A block of rooms will be reserved for the event from January 13th through the 17th at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort in Santa Barbara. The special room rate will be available October or until the group block is sold-out, whichever comes first.

You can now book your hotel room and receive our group rate. If you have any specific Reservation requests or challenges please contact Emily Wasem who is Fess Parker’s on-site Reservations Group Coordinator. Her e-mail address is [email protected] and her direct line is 805-884-8587.

In the meantime, check out our exceptional group of presenting designers from around the country:

  Kiana Underwood (Burlingame, California) www.tulipina.com

Kiana Underwood is the owner of Tulipina, a boutique floral design studio located in San Francisco, California. She is distinguished as a floral artist and teacher with her signature, garden-style designs that pop with color and texture. Kiana employs unique color combinations and floral varieties, including fruits and foliage, that set her apart from her contemporaries and draws admirers and floral designers from all over the world to her sold out workshops.

Since founding Tulipina in 2011, Kiana has quickly become recognized as one of the top floral designers in the world. In addition to chic local and destination weddings and events, Kiana has taught sold-out workshops to hundreds of students in locations around the United States, and in international locations including Canada, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Russia, and Ukraine.

She splits her time between California and New York with her husband, three children, and dog.

Kiana’s work can be seen in Brides, Elle Décor, Elle Spose, The Knot, Country Living, Design*Sponge, Style Me Pretty, Buzzfeed, Pottery Barn, Flower Magazine, Geraldine, Veranda, Livingly, CulturePop, Veter, Town and Country, Flutter, Utterly Engaged, Geraldine, Paste, and more.

      Hitomi Gilliam AIFD (Vancouver, British Columbia) www.design358.com

Hitomi Gilliam AIFD is a Japanese Canadian floral artist, keynote lecturer, demonstrator, educator and a consultant in all aspects of the Art and Business of Floral Design. She is the Creative Director for DESIGN358 (2008). She has guest-designed extensively throughout North America, England, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, Bermuda, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Colombia, Belgium, Korea, Oman and India. Hitomi’s biggest pleasure in life is, ‘SHARING EVERYTHING I KNOW’!!

She owned and operated Satsuki’s Florist in Mission, British Columbia for 28 years. She currently works with her son, Colin Gilliam in an Event & Education business, DESIGN358 which was established 8 years ago. Hitomi has lectured at numerous flower shows, botanical gardens, and art galleries around the world, including Philadelphia Flower Show, Newport Flower Show and Singapore Garden Festival.

Hitomi is the founding organizer of the Annual ‘Survival of the Creative Minds’ Conference in Taos, New Mexico. 19th Annual Conference ‘EXTREME’ is scheduled for October, 2017.

Hitomi is a co-founder with Tomas De Bruyne from Belgium of ‘European Master Certification’ Program. EMC cycle 4 (2017/2018) is in progress with PART I Foundation completed in Italy and Belgium, with Mexico and North America (West Coast & East Coast) upcoming.

In April 2017 Hitomi launched her Youtube channel where she shares design videos and interviews.

    Holly Chapple (Lucketts, Virginia) www.hollychappleflowers.com

Holly started her home based wedding and event floral design studio 24 years ago. Being a home based event designer allowed Holly the opportunity to stay at home and raise her 7 children. In August of 2011 her husband Evan joined the company offering lighting, drapes and event design support. Evan now develops many the props Holly designs. The HHC studio services weddings and special events in the Washington DC area, as well as destination weddings.

In 2010 Holly founded the Chapel Designers, a collective with members/designers all over the world. The Chapel Designer organization has received international recognition for its efforts to support and educate designers who service weddings and special events. Chapel Designer workshops and conferences are held throughout the year in several countries and across the United States. Holly has shared her expertise through these conferences in Russia, Australia, London, New York City, California and several other USA cities. Holly, along with several of the Chapel Designers, designed the flowers for

The Knot Dream Wedding in 2014 at the Biltmore Estate. In 2015 Holly Chapple was chosen as a Martha Stewart top wedding floral designer. In addition her work can be seen in numerous print and online publications. On July 30th 2015, Holly and Evan purchased a 25 acre farm that they named Hope. Hope Flower Farm is a flower art farm and Bed & Breakfast. Designers and educators from around the world will be gathering at Hope Flower Farm for educational workshops and art installations. Hope Farm is also available for weddings, special events and photo shoots.

In October 2017, it was announced that Holly and Syndicate Sales have partnered up to create a collection of products bearing her name. The Holly Heider Chapple Exclusively for Syndicate Sales collection brings Holly’s game-changing “egg” and “pillow” mechanics to the floral forefront, along with a signature collection of coordinating vases. The Holly Heider Chapple Exclusively for Syndicate Sales collection became available January 2018.

      Brian Watson (Fort Walton Beach, Florida) www.myrtieblue.com

Brian was born in Rome, Italy and as a child travelled and lived in many parts of the world including Manila and Mexico City. The Free time of his childhood was consumed with creative playing and “making things” – including the making of “mud pie dioramas” (little landscapes from plants, twigs, moss, gravel, etc in tin pie pans and such). His education included studies in computer science and the arts. (college years were dedicated to studying Studio Arts and Digital & Imaging arts). After college, he started a garden design business and began working in the garden and florist industry. He opened a small retail and floral shop in 1998 called Floribunda!. Brian, then, found a calling for weddings and worked for various companies in the industry before opening Myrtie Blue with husband, Gene.

Brian’s work has been featured in many publications including Flower Magazine, Southern Living, Southern Weddings, Magnolia Rouge, Utterly Engaged, and Weddings Unveiled. His work has also been featured on countless blogs: Style Me Pretty, Martha Stewart Weddings, Brides, Once Wed, Snippet & Ink, Wedding Chicks, Junebug Weddings, Flirty Fleurs and many more.

Working along Florida’s beautiful Emerald Coast (Watercolor, Seaside, Alys Beach, Rosemary Beach, Carillon Beach), Brian has developed his own unique style and aesthetic reflective of a natural, dreamy, and relaxed coastal attitude. His wedding designs fit harmoniously into their surroundings and exude romance, warmth and intimacy – leaving a lasting impression. He is excited to share his love, knowledge and insight on working with flowers filtered through his perspective of nature, light, color, and atmosphere.

    Alicia Schwede (Seattle, Washington) www.flirtyfleurs.com | www.bellafiori.com

Designer and blogger Alicia Schwede is the founder of the leading floral design & industry blog and magazine Flirty Fleurs. She regularly lectures on design and social media at workshops and events around the country. She is also the creative mind behind Seattle-area floral design studio Bella Fiori. Her work has been featured in The Knot and Style Me Pretty and in her book Bella Bouquets.

Alicia will be joining the workshop to present on Photography & Instagram.

          Jessica Zimmerman (Conway, Arkansas) www.zimmermanevents.com

Jessica Zimmerman is the founder of ZIMMERMAN. Jessica’s design work has been featured in People, Martha Stewart Weddings, Brides, Southern Living, and many more. While Jessica is known for her organic and unrestrained design style, she is best known in the floral industry for her business skills. Her course, The Business Behind the Blooms, has helped turn thousands of floral designers into profitable business owners! Jessica loves what she does in her studio, because it gives her the opportunity to invest in what she loves outside of her studio. Her husband, Brian, is her partner in all things life. Together they have a daughter, Stella, and twin boys, Perry and Zeke – a full home and even fuller hearts! Jessica is also a passionate traveler, a lover of the adventure it brings along with the chance to be exposed to all this beautiful world has to offer.

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Beach Litter in the UK.

More than 8,000 plastic bottles were collected by the Marine Conservation Society’s annual beach clean-up at seaside locations from Orkney to the Channel Islands on one weekend last September. On average, 99 bottles were picked up along every kilometre cleaned by volunteers. It is estimated that plastic bottles can take up to 500 years to break down once in the sea. The charity’s report reveals a 34% rise in beach litter overall between 2014 and 2015, the largest ever amount of litter per kilometre (3,298 pieces) and a record-breaking number of volunteers, just over 6,000, taking part.

The conservation charity said the “shocking” figures strengthened the case for the introduction of a refundable deposit on all ‘throwaway’ plastic and glass drinks bottles and aluminium cans. This would encourage consumers not to discard them, while boosting recycling rates and cutting the amount of litter. Small pieces of plastic topped the list of litter picked up, with 960 bits on average collected for each kilometre of beach cleaned. Shards of glass were the second most common rubbish, with 208 pieces on average per kilometre of beach.

The volunteers found 197 crisp or sandwich packets and lolly or sweet wrappers for every kilometre they searched. Other common litter included bottle caps and lids, string and rope, cotton bud sticks, cutlery, trays and plastic straws, as well as fishing nets and cigarette stubs. The numbers of plastic drinks bottles found in the beach clean were up 43% on 2014 levels while metal drinks cans were up 29% and lids and caps soared by 41%, the survey showed. “There have been increases in the number of plastic bottles found on beaches in England, Scotland, Channel Islands, and Northern Ireland”, said Lauren Eyles, MCS Beachwatch Manager. “The bottles we find on beaches are either dropped directly onto the beach, blown from land or sea, or end up there via rivers. The more we use as a nation, the more we’ll see ending up on our shores.”

All countries saw an increase in litter, except Wales, where litter levels dropped after a record rise last year . However, in the last decade, average litter levels on Welsh beaches have increased by 51%. England suffered record levels of litter across 189 beaches, with the highest levels of rubbish – averaging 5,170 items per kilometre – in the south-west.

Plastic bottles on beaches rose by 57.2% in England, 21.3% in Scotland, 6.3% in the Channel Islands and a whopping 235.3% in Northern Ireland. In Wales they dropped by 39.4 % but in line with the overall fall in the country’s litter levels. In Wales there were still 103 plastic bottles found per kilometre cleaned – higher than the national average. The charity is working with volunteers to try to reduce litter levels on UK beaches by half by 2020, as well as cutting sewage pollution.

The MSC said deposit return schemes – in use in other parts of the world – give value to items often regarded by consumers as having no value and disposed of irresponsibly. “Deposit return systems (DRS) are nothing new,” Eyles said. “Lots of people will remember taking pop bottles back to the shop and up until last year the makers of Irn-Bru were returning 30p on glass bottles. “Currently DRS schemes run successfully in Germany, Denmark, and some states in Australia and the USA. Studies have shown that a scheme can reduce the amount of littered drink containers, lead to more recycling and contribute to the circular economy.”

- Article on beach litter in the UK in The Guardian.

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