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by Laurie Esposito Harley
This is a picture taken by me of my actual California Blooms. Purty. |
I have been meaning to write this article for two years. Literally. Not that I procrastinate or anything. (Okay, yeah, I procrastinate like there's no tomorrow.) Way back in 2009, I was new to Twitter. I began following @CalBlooms, because they were having a contest. They were giving away two dozen roses to new followers who RTed about the contest. So, of course, I followed; I retweeted. And then, the unthinkable happened. I won. A few days after placing my order for free roses, I received my beauties. I got the orange roses, and I sent purple ones to my best friend and neighbor. These flowers lasted FOREVER. They were flawless and fragrant for months. I'm serious. No kidding. What was truly amazing was how California Blooms ships their flowers. |
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comfortably (vase and all) in a large box with papers and packing stuff,
so they don't get bumped or damaged in their trip to your house. Plus, they
use these little ice packs to keep the flowers cool, so they don't wilt
on your front porch because you had to run to the grocery store, and the
flowers were delivered while you were gone, and they sat out in the 95 degree
heat, not to mention the freakin' humidity! ::Clears throat:: |
Actual California Blooms box (photo courtesty of their web site) |
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| If you didn't already know, I'm a bit of a packrat. And I saw these gorgeous, huge, sturdy boxes and my mind began to race. Certainly there is *something* I can do with this. Then the lightbulb lit. My children are always talking about wanting a school locker. Public school students get to put their stuff in a locker, why can't my kids? My answer had always been that they have an entire room to put their school stuff, not to mention the playroom and bedroom. But they didn't want to miss out on a school experience. And now I had just the right size box to make those lockers a reality. I took out paints and had the kids paint designs on their locker. Allison didn't feel like painting the entire box and Annie liked the design of roses, so both girls decided to paint different size rectangles. We used orange and white, since those colors matched with the color of the California Blooms box. |
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After the boxes dried, I hot-glued a "shelf" inside near the top. It's been so long, but I'm almost positive the shelf was made from a piece of cardboard that came in the California Blooms box as padding. I put little hooks on either side under the shelf and hot-glued a small mirror on each door. I gave each of my daughters a few thumbtacks to pin items to the shelf, but NOT on the doors. The doors were too thin and the thumbtack point stuck through the other side - ouch. I made the doors so that they could close shut - and this I think is just ingenious - by hot-glueing a large button on the side and a pony tail holder on the door. Annie was disappointed that she couldn't lock hers like the kids in public school do, but she loved having a placing to store all of her stuff that was all her own.
Allie and Annie by their homeschool lockers.
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If you liked this, then read this (please!): Why Homeschool?
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