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Love In Blooms Part One

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We really LOVE Valentine’s Day! It’s a day celebrating love and it’s filled with chocolates and flowers —we all could use some extra love, chocolates, and flowers in our lives right now.

In the quiet days of January (it’s like a retail freeze), we have been doing research and getting inspired. It’s a new year, and we have been thinking about what we want to feature at Upper Village Blooms.

We have brought in some old favorites, such as botany + wax reed diffusers and Nectar Republic Apothecary Candles and their very popular Bath Salt Test Tubes. We have added two new formulations of Bath Salts: Peppermint Tea Tree and Grapefruit Lemongrass.

In addition to the Apothecary Candles, we are introducing Nectar Republic’s 1776 Collection. These fragrances are inspired by the gentlemen of the Revolutionary War, and are a soy/beeswax blend and wrapped with a leather cord.

Also new in the shop is Thesis Beauty’s Chocolate Heaven Mask, an organic, vegan mask made without any chemicals —but with pure organic cacao.

Teaposy’s Heart of Love Blooming Tea, a blend of Rose,  Lily, and Silver needle white tea, scented with fresh jasmine flower. Each bloom makes 6-8 cups of tea and is delightfully citrusy.

Furthermore, we have selected a new greeting card and stationery company, Brooklyn-based Open Sea Designs. Drawing creative inspiration from Victorian botanicals, esoterica, the animal kingdom, and the occult, they are a perfect fit for Upper Village Blooms. We now carry their Spirit Board Market Pad and Lucky Me Notepad, in addition to their oval Calendar card (not pictured below), we have some lovely Open Sea Valentine’s Day cards.

Stop in to see the new items we carry and pick up a Valentine’s Day giftie for your love.

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TokyoMilk Tote Bag Giveaway!

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Upper Village Blooms has proudly offered TokyoMilk luxury bath and beauty products since our beginning. As the seasons pass, we are continually impressed by the consistent quality of this brand! These flawless scent signatures with unusual blends work well with all body chemistry.

Their number 1 selling scent is Dead Sexy, and in many ways, it perfectly represents us and our demographic. The packaging is sumptuous and slathered in peonies, roses and skulls. The scent is spicy and delicious but not sugary, not for the meek. With top notes of vanilla and exotic woods, wearing Dead Sexy unabashedly channels your inner, unapologetic vixen.


New for this season is the Dead Sexy Shower Gel, so you can layer your scents or simply make your daily shower routine a lot more glam!

Other scents include the perennially popular Honey and the Moon, a soft honey scent that envelops you in cozy. Available in Eau de Parfum, Shea Butter Lotion and —new for us— in a travel candle! And for those of us who like our scents less sweet and more dry, Gin & Rosewater is back in the house in Eau de Perfume and Shea Butter Lotion.


For those of you who have been asking about it since Valentine’s Day— the Bon Bon Bubbling Bath is back! We have heard from many happy customers that this bubble bath is not just a pretty face, but it is a great value! The bubbles and the product are so well-formulated that both last for a long time, and the Dead Sexy scent is divine. Because Bon Bon Bubbling Bath doesn’t stay in stock for long, we also have Travel Mini Bubble Baths for the holidays! Pair it with a travel candle or hand lotion, and you have a winning Secret Santa or Mystery Mensch gift.

And… we are excited to offer our first ever product giveaway!

Receive a TokyoMilk Oilcloth Tote Bag with any $150 TokyoMilk purchase (while tote bags last). This includes all three TokyoMilk lines —Bon Bon, TokyoMilk Light and Tokyo Milk Dark!

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Columbia Road Flower Market

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Our Twitter feed somehow is filled with gorgeously creative flower designers and shops in the U.K. For inspiration, we follow the Royal Horticultural Society and Flower Joos, among so many others!

On a recent trip to London, we were determined to visit the Columbia Road Flower Market. It is an open air market occupying roughly a block of Columbia Road in Bethnal Green, East London. Open to the public on Sunday mornings, it is jam packed with shoppers looking for flowers, plants, pots and antiques.

From the beginning of its historical record, Columbia Road’s unsavory past has been … dark. It was an area where crime was rampant and Resurrection Men hid out. The London Burkers were feared body snatchers in the early 19th century, selling cadavers to anatomists for a pretty penny.

In 1869, the land was purchased by Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts in order to save the area from its grim reality. Her intent was to create a fish and produce market and indeed, produce was sold there for about twenty years, until it closed and went into decline. The Baroness spent a fortune on a Gothic Hall market which was never really used, as the locals preferred to sell in the open air. (The Book of London Place Names, Caroline Taggart p. 197.)

The market evolved into a flower market, with songbirds for sale. The market, originally held on Saturdays, was moved to Sundays in order to accommodate Jewish traders. This was upheld by an Act of Parliament. The market has endured, despite a direct bombing during the Blitz on September 7, 1940.

This thriving market was festive on the day we visited, with street buskers and flower sellers calling their pitch “ev’ry thing a fiver!” We browsed everything from potted chillies to bamboo and all the gorgeous flowers in between. The hydrangea were in season and everything looked so inspiring!

Open every Sunday from 8am to about 3pm.

Sources and more info:
Caroline Corinne’s The Women of Columbia Road

Columbia Road Flower Market

And please, follow us on Twitter!



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NY Now Gift Show

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Twice a year, the NY Now Retail Renaissance gift show visits the Javits Center, giving retailers opportunities to see over 2,300 brands of products. Home decor, bath and beauty products, stationery, accessories, jewelry, and specialty food items are featured from all around the world. It is a convenient way for us to browse new brands, sample items, and reconnect with our established vendors.

This week, we walked many miles for several days, winding through the vast array of products, trying to avoid collecting too many heavy catalogs and failing.

We sniffed more lines of candles and home fragrance diffusers than we can remember and sampled so many hand lotions, body creams, and balms that we we’ve been light-headed and shiny for days. Oh, the things we suffer through!

Now that we are back, we are poring over catalogs, calculating minimum order prices and wishing we had a million dollars so we could bring all these fabulous products we found to Croton!

Here are only two dozen of the pictures we snapped!


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Getting ready for Valentine's Day Part 2

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Oh the flowers!

We cleaned over 600 roses alone and it was worth every scratch and heavy bucket. We’re not sure if we can trust anyone who doesn’t like dogs or roses.

No, it’s not too late to call to order flowers for pick up or delivery tomorrow!

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Getting ready for Valentine's Day Part 1

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We have been busy over here, getting ready for our first Valentine’s Day!

Despite the snowstorm, we received a giant shipment of TokyoMilk products. We re-stocked some favorites and ordered a few new scents, such as La Vie La Mort and Honey & the Moon. We added Pretty Rotten perfume and Kabuki Shea Butter Hand Creme. We are grateful that we had the chance to put this out in time for Valentine’s Day.

Our Bath & Body wall, includes TokyoMilk, Root, Branch & Blossom, Lovewild Design.

Our Bath & Body wall, includes TokyoMilk, Root, Branch & Blossom, Lovewild Design.

TokyoMilk Date Night. Includes Dead Sexy #06 Eau de Parfum and Lip Gloss packaged set in a luscious tin. Extremely limited stock.

TokyoMilk Date Night. Includes Dead Sexy #06 Eau de Parfum and Lip Gloss packaged set in a luscious tin. Extremely limited stock.

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Shiny Skull Productions

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We are so thankful to Alex Joseph of Shiny Skull Productions for taking these photos of our floral arrangements. He did an exceptional job capturing the texture and nuances of the flowers in our romantic arrangements. We can’t believe how gorgeous they are!

Take a look at his Facebook Page!

https://www.facebook.com/shinyskullproductions/

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