Extra Post May: FINALE...Life, whats next?

This is the picture that did not show up on one of my slides. This is a piece that I designed and created on my own for a wedding fruit buffet table centerpiece. I loved making this because of the branch that was centered in the middle, it was a great focal point to place the roses around. I also added elegance by putting in the diamond pins. 

This picture (no lie) contains the most influential friends I had in my 2 years of iPoly, not to mention some of my best friends. I just want to give them a shout out, this is the only picture I have of proof for my senior project due to my stress. Thanks to each of you for helping me, even if it was to lower my nervousness or stress levels. I can not express my appreciation enough. I will miss seeing you all almost every day. 

I found this picture from 1800Flowers Twitter Page. I just thought it was perfect because I can graduate now, since I am done with my senior project! I am so excited to move on from high school and onto my dream university.

This is a baby goat that I would like to own one day. 

I am extremely excited for UCI. I never gave myself high hopes of accepting this institution as my dream, in case I would not get in. But (Alhamdulilah) I made it! 

People that have made this possible, whether it be motivation, love, or prayers: 

My Parents (first and foremost)- Ibrahim and Fariha Baggia

My Grandparents- Nani and Nana

My favorite teacher/Second Mother- Mrs. La Russa

My Counselor- Mr. Goode

My Friends- Aman Shamim, Justine Solorio, Marissa Jasso

Extra Post February: BUSIEST DAY OF THE YEAR

 

 

VALENTINES DAY! This year we started sending out orders as early as February 8th and finished on February 17th. We had more than 1,000 orders. I made almost 50 flower arrangements. Above are just some pictures of our stores and the work I did.

Extra Post January: VALENTINE PREP

ITS ALMOST VALENTINES DAY and oh how much I love prepping for the big week.
Valentine's Day or should I say week is the busiest for our stores.

What have we been doing?!

• Hiring Flower Designers
• Hiring Fruit Arrangement Designers
• Hiring Drivers
• Interviewing New Employees
• Training New Employees
• Pre-Ordering Fruits and Flowers
• Ordering a Refrigerated Truck
• Preparing Arrangement Books

Wish us luck as we prepare to bring smiles to lucky Valentines!

Extra Post October: Investment Opportunity

October News:

A producer called our manager a few days ago. She told our manager that an actor wants Sweet Fruit Arrangements to provide an arrangement for free to give the actor's girlfriend.

She presented this opportunity as a chance to boost our publicity. The actor would post a picture of our arrangement on his twitter account which has 310,200 followers.

I was present when the manager told the producer that she would contact her with a reply. Since I have given the opportunity to help make decisions and work along side the manager. I did some research on if this would be a good investment.

The actor is not famous and even though he has 310,200 followers, not many people retweet or favorite his posts. I told the owner (my mentor) and he contacted the producer to decline her offer.

After all we have been noticed by many, including Snookie. We expect better opportunities than this in the future.

Extra Post August- Flower Shop is now complete!

Today I went to visit the shops for the first time after my summer mentorship hours. I never had the opportunity to tell the employees and drivers about my senior project so I was very excited to do so.

Here's the good news. Whenever you start a business, you start small. When the flower shop had its opening in the summer, we shared a facility with a computer repair service,  next to the fruit arrangement shop. Today the owners of the computer repair service moved out. Now we have an entire shop which provides extra room for the growing business.

The sort of bad news: We had a power outage which interferes with orders coming in through the wire. Basically, we receive orders through Bloomnet, a service by 1800flowers for online orders. Fortunately, I took care of the problem by restarting the computer screens, opening our accounts, and printing the orders. We also have a great employee (more like a sister to me), Mariel, who fixed the power outage by herself.

Our family's flower shop is a dream come true. Just imagining how many people receive smiles everyday by such a sweet gesture, is priceless. Plus they smell so wonderful!

P.S. I love to change things up a bit, so I will be changing the flower arrangement on the left side of this blog. All the flower arrangements are the ones we offer through the website.