Mothers Day is always a bit of fun and games in here, everything turns shades of pink and purple and flowery! Opening for special mothers day deliveries on the sunday is a bit of fun too. When Ella Rouge approached us for some ideas for all theyre Sydney stores to promote mothers day sales we came up with some cool different options for them. The one they ended up choosing was a Flower column, with 2 handmade flowers, in pinks with a touch of yellow.. They looked pretty cool i think! After hours and hours from all the girls to get these inflated and 1 hectic day to get them all delivered (We made quiet an impression walking through all the shopping centres, all coming back with a few good stories to share!) All the Ella Rouge stores recieved at least 2 of these to brighten up the store!
Happy Mother’s Day!!
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Now just to be clear i don’t have a fear of flying… My fear isn’t that the plane is going to crash and we are all going to die or that we would be stranded on some random island where strange things happen.. My fear is of the pain that comes with flying, i cant pop my ears so every flight ends in SO much pain, and a couple of days of deafness.. But some how i still get picked for these sorts of things.. i would like to here point out that it is my amazing talent or personality.. but just quietly its because I’m the one with out kids and an family commitments! So after 2 flights i finally arrived in Emerald a small mining town.. after picking up the hire car (this was pretty exciting.. i do like driving different cars and this one was quite fun!) finding the electrical supply store and picking up the order i had placed the week before (try explaining to an electrician that you want to get conduit and concrete to make a balloon arch… they thought i was crazy!) the chemist (more neofen for the ears) and finding the place i was staying (ended up being 20km out of town… i really got to test out that car!) making the balcony look like a construction zone while i concreted and started construction for the arches and columns.
Up early the next morning, i entered a real life construction zone… looking around at this what looked to me like a half build shopping centre, all i could think was, they would need a mircale to open this place tomorrow! But never the less i annoyed the entire woolies staff with the very loud sound of the air inflator (lucky for me i still couldnt hear out of one ear!).. For pretty much the entrie day… While the all kept walking past saying how great it looked, i do think they where very happy to see me leave.. So just to share the love around i then went and annoyed the Big W staff, though they were a little smarter and sent me to the loading dock to inflate! Walking through the centre on the way out, it had started to resenble an actual shopping centre.. and as late as it was (sun was setting!!) there was still a few hundred people working away… pretty sure they would have had to work all night but they got it done!
So up early to check out, return the hire car and get the 2 flights back home.. totally exhausted but pretty please with the job done! After receiving glowing reports from all the staff and managers in both the stores (pretty sure they had never had anything like it in emerald before by the way they were talking!) Was very happy to be on the way home (of course that’s always when you get to sit next to the most talkative people on the plane!)
6:30am seemed way to early to have to be up and in redfern to make a balloon arch. Then when the girls informed me that the event was only going to last an hour, i was totally confused.. this all seemed like a very strange event. Driving down the driveway into the refern carriage works did nothing to change this feeling! Beautiful old buildings but everything looked deserted. Further down the path was a hive of activity, there were people running around everywhere. After setting up the arch in the chosen spot and taking the always neccesary 1 billion photos it was back to the shop to get on with the day. I was still totally unaware of what the event was for! It wasnt until a few days ago when Alissa mentioned “Your arch is on Celebrity apprentice tonight” and after a lot of hits (a couple of months ago is a long time to remember a delivery) mostly consisting of how much i had liked the location! That i realised that this was the delivery, and suddenly it all made sence! And of course we were quite excited to see it on TV!!
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Check out an image from the event.
Check out this picture of the event.
Check out this picture from the event.
