Get to Know Polka Dots and Daisies

Polka Dots & Daisies was started in January of 2007, after Mollie Openshaw noticed a lack of color in the wedding invitation industry. When planning her own wedding in 2006, she couldn't find wedding invitations that complimented her wedding style or color scheme and since she wanted a cohesive look for her entire event, Mollie put her graphic design training to work and created the perfect custom designed invitations. Since then she's helped hundreds of brides make their wedding invitations unique and customized with thousands of color options, top notch printing, & excellent customer service.

Polka Dots & Daisies offers an array of pre-designed invitation styles that can be customized with your wedding colors and font selections or they can even create brand new designs and graphics just for you! If you're the lucky winner of the Giveaway, you'll get 100 Group A invitations/envelopes (select from pre-designed styles) that can be tailored to perfectly suit your wedding! And if you're one of the finalists (those that do not win the Grand Prize) you'll still receive a special bonus... $50 off your wedding invitation order through Polka Dots & Daisies-- good through 2011. Check out the giveaway post for additional offers.

And now for post #2 on Christmas arrangements: Pine Cones. This is kind of a "no-duh" addition to a Christmas arrangement, but I decided to include it nonetheless. You can see them in the wreath from the last post or in this photo, with roses, seeded eucalyptus, fern, hypericum berries and other fillers, from GoodHouskeeping.com.

Pine cones often come scented at Christmastime and are even great for just around-the-house use. I like them for some of the same reasons I like pomegranates - they add interesting texture to an arrangement, and I LOVE texture in arrangements. There's not much else to say about them, other than as with pomegranates, you have to use a pick or some sort of floral pin to add them to an arrangement, necessitating the use of floral foam as well, but they are great to work with.