Pinterest - My newest addiction!

Are you a visual person? Are you the type of person that would look at the picture, rather than the directions, to determine how to create something handmade?

If you answered, yes! then you need to check out www.pinterest.com

It's a fantastic website where you can create your own "corkboards" so to speak and then "pin" photos you have found from other pinterest members or from your own galleries.

It's a great way to keep a file of your favorite pictures, ideas, and inspirations online!

Feel free to check out all of my boards on www.pinterest.com under Sarah Waterhouse Taylor.

Happy Searching! :)

What makes us special?

When it comes time for you to order flowers for a birthday, balloons for a get well, or a memorial piece for expressions of sympathy, why should you choose Sarah's Flowers & Gifts?

Firstly, we are proud to be in our eighth year of serving the Manchester community and surrounding area as a full service, fresh cut flower and gift shop. At Sarah's Flowers & Gifts you can take care of everything from birthdays, get wells, seasonal shopping, thinking of you....all of life's sentimental moments!

We also love to create new, handmade items that are truly unique and exclusive to Sarah's Flowers and Gifts. You'll find things here that you cannot and will not find anywhere else because we hand make them - just for you!


Sarah's Flowers & Gifts has a large selection of stepping stones that we have hand-painted, right here in the flower shop. We love to custom make stones that are personalized for weddings, anniversaries, and house warming gifts.



Sarah's Flowers & Gifts has an expansive inventory of balloons and candy sundaes as well! The perfect way to perk up anyone's day! Who wouldn't love to receive a hand-delivered bouquet of balloons attached to a sweet candy sundae?

Life is about many things. It's about birthdays and anniversaries. And it's also about expressions of sympathy. Sometimes it's difficult to find the right words to express thoughts of sympathy and that is why Sarah's Flowers and Gifts is happy to be of assistance with our large selection of memorial stepping stones, benches, and statuary. These thoughtful gift items will help you when words are not enough.

If you'd like to be informed of all that is new at Sarah's Flowers and Gifts we encourage you to follow this blog. You can also "fan" us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/sarahsflowersandgifts.

And we encourage you to check our website often: www.sarahsflowersandgifts.com

We are constantly updating our information to keep serving you better.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to be your florist!

It's back to school time! Come get these handmade hairbows to compliment all those new, back to school oufits!

Can you belive it's back to school time? These enjoyable break from the heat is reminding most of us that Fall will soon be here!

That means : back to school, football games, school functions, and so many more outings.

We've been busy at the flower shop creating wonderful, fun and frilly hairbows that are the perfect compliment to those new, back to school outfits!

We even have several black and orange bows to cheer on the WD Hawks!


If you are out and about, we encourage you to stop by and see Sarah's Flowers and Gifts and take a look at what we have that's fun and new!

And remember - we are proud and happy to now be in our 8th year of serving the Manchester are as a full service flower and gift shop!

Where have we been?

We've been asking ourselves just that question!

We had been experimenting with different blog formats that might be more easily accessed by your VIP's - You!!

We found, after some searching, that we really enjoy the Blogspot format and options it offers us to get information to you!

As the seasons change - we are always excited here at the flower shop to be changing things up as well.

Our giftware inventory is always changing and expanding and Spring is always a fun time for new giftware! We have a new shipment of Windchimes headed to the shop as we speak! These always make a great gift for a variety of life's occasions.

We're also very proud of our extensive Memorial Giftware section that we have at Sarah's Flowers & Gifts. It not only includes a very large collection of benches, stepping stones, statuary, and gifts for the loss of friends and loved ones. We have also recently started carrying a vast selection of Pet Memorials.

You can always check out our selection online at www.sarahsflowersandgifts.com to see a sampling of our products. As always, if you ever have questions - you can always call us at 563-927-8247

Don't forget - we deliver!! Our delivery area includes: Manchester, Earlville, Edgewood, Greeley, Ryan, and Delhi. We also service Bohnenkamp-Murdoch Funeral Home , Leonard Muller Funeral Home, Clifton Murdoch Funeral Home in Earlville, Leonard Muller in Edgewood, and Lamont and Winthrop Funeral Homes, Regional Medical Center in Manchester, The Good Neighbor Home , The Meadows, and all of Delaware County!

Praise the Lord, Spring is here!

Were you like me and thought Spring would never arrive?

As I speak, it's currently overcast and chilly this Sunday afternoon but have no fear! The weatherman says that next week we are supposed to hit 70 degrees!! What a great thought!

Do you, like me, finding yourself yearning to get outside and plant those annuals, hang those baskets, and enjoy the sunshine? On that note, we'd like to say how excited Sarah's Flowers & Gifts is for The Green Spot in Manchester and their new and very spacious greenhouse! I personally buy hanging baskets from Janet every spring for my house because her petunias are by the far the most beautiful I have seen!

It's hard to believe Easter is almost here. A week from now we'll all be enjoying the company of family and hunting those eggs!

At the flower shop we've been busy getting ready for Spring since before the snow melted!

We have our Easter lilies now in stock, and I must say they are so beautifully fragrant. We've also gotten in several sizes and types of blooming plants -- just in time for you send as and Easter greeting to family and friends.

Isn't it amazing what flowers do to a room at holiday time? I was reading a study done recently by Harvard in relation to what flowers do when put in a room with people at work. Researchers have found that flowers actually can increase positive thoughts and feelings!

Couldn't we all use more of that? Treat yourself and pick up some flowers today!

Sarah's Flowers & Gifts always has a great selection of fresh cut stems on hand for you DIY'ers! We love making up wrapped bouquets for people to take home and create their own arrangements. And with Spring flowers beginning to bloom - just think how fun it would be combine your tulips with some flower shop daisies? Or some flower shop roses with a few of your hosta leaves?

We're always here to help you because we appreciate you and we love flowers! If you haven't been out to see us in a while, most definetly stop in - we have a HUGE selection of spring gifts for every price range!

Google Reader

Let me say I love Google Reader!!

My main new year's resoloution was to become a little more organized with my online tools, the blog, the fb posts, and the tweets.

I've been finding so many great flower shop blogs to read, but I've also been stumbling across a lot of fantastic, creative crafting blogs!

My background pretty much started with crafting. Being the daughter of a professional crafter (Yes my mother made a career of it!) I would spend a large number of summer weekends traveling across the midwest to craft shows with mom to help sell her handmade items. I was very lucky to have a mom that encouraged creativity from a very young age -- look where it got me! Doing what I love, everday!

I also worked for both Ben Franklin Crafts and Hobby Lobby which allowed me access to the newest craft trends on the market. I also had the best teachers while working retail in arts and crafts, the customers!!

I learned so much from customers looking for a certain product or purchasing something to finish up a project. They'd tell me what they were doing and then how to do it and voila - I could add another project to my craft recipe box! If I had a question, I knew which customer to ask so next time they'd come in I'd fire away.

So that brings me to Google Reader. With all these blogs I was trying to follow, I felt overwhelmed stashing them all in my "Favorites" folder online and trying to read each one and remember which ones I had looked at recently for updates.

Hello Good Reader! It's so awesome because I can put all my favorite blogs/websites/facebook pages/twitter pages into it and it keeps me posted when new info is posted. It's kind of like your own personlized, online library that stocks only books that you enjoy and you can go "check them out" whenver you want!

Just today I found this website: www.dollarstorecrafts.com

Great site - great ideas - great price!! Who doesn't love The Dollar Tree and the amazing things you can find their for projects.

From that site I found such blogs and sites as Curbly, ShannonMakesStuff, and MuffinTinMom.

I hope you all enjoy reading them as much as I do!

Keep crafting!

A flowertastic Oscars night!

Did everyone get the chance to see the Oscars last night?

Did anyone happen to notice fresh flowers popping up all over the read carpet ....on the stars!

From Mo'niques glamourous gardenias in her hair to a dapper Tom Ford sporting a gardenia boutonniere - 2 great examples of what flowers can do and how fabulous they are!

Next time you have a special event to attend -- don't forget the flowers! They make the outfit!