Flowers of Comfort

On April 3, Flowers of Comfort completed 3 years in 'business'. We did take a 6 month Covid hiatus, but during those 2 1/2 years we delivered 9,464 cheery floral arrangements to people in hospice care, elder care and veterans. A huge thanks to my dedicated volunteers, and generous donors. We couldn't have done it without you. @unitedwholesaleflowers ... @californiaflowershippers Darling-Fischer Mortuaries Lima & Campagna Sunnyvale Mortuary @wildgeranium @sai.decor @petitepetalco See more

On Monday morning we were in the driveway creating arrangements when a man, who was taking a walk, stopped to watch what we were doing. He asked what was going on. We explained how we received donated flowers and vases and created flowers for those in hospice and elder care. He continued to watch. "Do you like flowers?" we asked. "My wife did" he answered.... He then took out his wallet and gave us a donation. We were all touched by his generosity. He got what we do and wanted to help. Thank you so much! Check out our website to see how you can help. www.flowersofcomfort.com

We are now delivering to Heartland Home Health & Hospice. Teri and I connected through NextDoor and they are very happy to be able deliver a little cheer to their patients and families facing a most difficult time. Welcome Heartland Hospice!

With the generous floral donations from Ravi Bhade with Sai Decor, United Wholesale Flowers, California Flower Shippers we were able to bring smiles to 51 people in hospice care. Hoping these lift spirits in this most difficult of times.

Thank you to Darling & Fischer Campbell for saving these flowers for Flowers of Comfort. We plan to deliver arrangements to 2 new facilities with these beauties.

Thank you to @wildgeranium for the generous donation of flowers.

We delivered to a new care home today, @Home for Seniors; here was the reaction to our flower delivery All the ladies were so thrilled and grateful for the flowers. One 96 year old lady came and told me her first job at age 16 was doing flower arrangements. Receiving them today brought back special memories

Monday was a very productive flower day, thanks to United Wholesale Flowers, California Flower Shippers, Lima & Campagna Sunnyvale Mortuary along with the family of Nengan Ye and St. Philip's Episcopal Church. Their generous flower donations allowed us to bring cheer to 83 this week. So far in 2021, Flowers of Comfort has brightened the day of 285 individuals, and many more, if you consider their families, who were also cheered just knowing someone cared.

Here are some of the arrangements that went to Vasona Creek Healthcare Center, Canyon Springs Post-Acute Care and @Hospice of the Valley SJ

Thank you to the family of Nengan Ye for the generous donation of sympathy flowers via @Lima & Campagna Sunnyvale Mortuary. The family stipulated that our newly created floral arrangements be delivered to residents at Canyon Springs Acute Care on Jackson Ave, which Flowers of Comfort is more than happy to do.

Need to bring a little joy to someone...check my interview with the lovely Kristell Mazzuco from Flowers of Comfort!

This is Flower of Comfort’s mission.

We were able to create 55 arrangements this week. @Hospice of the Valley- 38 https://www.hospicevalley.org/ 3 Evergreen residential care homes - 15... 2 individuals that needed cheering up including a very special, retired Piedmont Hills High School teacher, C. Joan Reed. See more

An exciting week for Flowers of Comfort as there is a new cooler in the house. So, thanks to our many generous donors, we just went from an old 1973 drink cooler to a slick, new commercial cooler. Cost to repair the old or buy new was about the same so the choice was easy, The new one has actual temp controls with #'s instead of a dial with no markings. Used to have to use trial and error to figure out the temp; froze a couple of large HS graduation arrangements that way. Hope to customize the sign sometime soon.

This sounds like a fun activity. I have plenty of mason jars I can bring. Those that volunteer with Victoria Angam Rasmussen know that.

Red, white and green from last week. What will this week bring?

Flowers of Comfort anticipated poor air quality this morning, so, to be cautious, we cancelled our work session. This is what our sky looked like when I made that decision on Saturday. Who knew the air would clear up so dramatically? Grateful for the clear air but sorry there won't be any flowers to deliver today.

Flowers of Comfort delivered 11 arrangements and 42 hand crocheted afghans to Veterans Housing Facility of the Silicon Valley this week. Thank you to Robin Nevoli, Kathy Roessler, Shirley D’Agosta, Cindy Pitcher, and Barbara Dekruif for your dedicated handiwork. We our vets! They were very happy to see us after our 6 month SIP hiatus.

This week we made twins to accessorize the virtual interview of Kristell Mazzuco by @Becky Trovato, Intero Realtor, re: Flowers of Comfort giving back during Covid-19.

And now some pinks for your viewing pleasure...

Some of this week's yellow/orange highlights

These sweet little arrangements were created from the little bits and pieces leftover after the first 40 were made for Hospice of the Valley. Thank you to Petite Petal Co. for the generous vase donation.

This is what we did with Sunday's huge flower haul. At the end of the day we ended up with 50!