Last month, one of our fantastic licensees, Bob Stahlheber of Blooming Eloquence, was featured on Fox news! He explains how the Speaking Roses flower printer can create embossed roses, taking the floral industry to the next level! Congratulations, Bob, and keep it up!
One of our friends and business partners, Joel Libava (aka the Franchise King), has recently published his first book, Become a Franchise Owner! Joel is a smart and charismatic guy, as well as a fantastic writer. His style is so unique and fun to read. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in franchises and how they work. Even if you’re not necessarily ready or interested in starting a franchise immediately, it is still a good read!
Joel is also one of our Speaking Roses blog referrers. He has taken the opportunity of posting a Speaking Roses graphic on his site that tracks how many people visit our site by clicking on it from his blog. He has also featured us in his site directory as well as one of his newsletters. Every time we close a sale on one of those leads, Joel gets a percentage! Told ya he was a smart guy 
If you are interested in making some extra money by becoming a Speaking Roses referrer, email me at sunnie@speakingroses.com. If you are interested in learning more about Joel Libava and his franchise expertise, visit www.joellibava.com or www.thefranchiseking.com.
Hi, my name is Susan and I have a story about how embossed roses changed my experience at my senior prom. My boyfriend in high school was name Ethan. He was a member of the student council and French Honor Society, captain of the varsity soccer team, was always on the honor roll and also worked a full time job.
For the most part, Ethan stayed busy and out of trouble. He was very popular in school and had tons of friends. It was actually hard not to like him! But no matter how hard Ethan tried, my dad just wasn’t his biggest fan. My dad never really liked any of my boyfriends, but for some reason, Ethan was the least favorite so far. I think it was probably because he was my most serious and long term boyfriend I’ve ever had.
When senior prom came around, it was obvious who I would be going with. Still, one day I came home from school to a path of rose petals going from the front door of my house leading back to my room. When I looked closer, I noticed they were not just regular petals; they had a message (in his handwriting!) that said “I Love You, Susan”. I was delighted and excited, and my mom thought it was adorable. But, my dad just scoffed and rolled his eyes as I hurriedly followed the trail of red petals back to my room.
When I opened the door, I was greeted by a room fully decorated with balloons, a teddy bear, chocolates, and a bouquet of red roses in an elegant vase on my nightstand. I hurried over to smell the roses and noticed they also had a message on them! They read “Will You Go to Prom With Me?”
That day I did some research to find out where and how he got those amazing embossed roses! I went online and searched flower printer and discovered that the company that had the ability to produce these personalized flowers was called Speaking Roses and that a florist nearby sold them! I called and ordered a printed flower that said “Yes!” and gave it to him the next day at school.
After much preparation and excitement, the night of prom arrived. When Ethan came to pick me up, he had a corsage pinned onto his suit that was embossed with “Ethan and Susan – Prom 2012” and gave me a matching corsage. As if the boy couldn’t get any sweeter (and these personalized roses couldn’t get any more impressive!) he pulled out two white roses for my dad. One was printed with “I’ll Get Her Home on Time” and the other had the Dallas Cowboys logo, his all time favorite team.
I know he was trying not to show it, but my dad appreciated the gesture. Not only was he impressed by Ethan’s thoughtfulness, but he was also impressed with the quality of the personalized rose. My dad wanted to know how it was done. Was it a sticker? Was it painted on? Did they use a stamp? Ethan didn’t know exactly, but he was told that they owned a patented flower printer that could emboss anything you wanted (images, messages, icons…) on live, fresh flowers.
We went to prom and had a blast! And, of course, Ethan brought me home five minutes before curfew. My dad answered the door, shook Ethan’s hand and actually smiled at him. That was a first! I ended up having my corsage dried and still have it encased with the tickets and a few of the embossed petals in a decorative glass dome.
Even though the personalized roses were a small gesture, they made my senior prom so much more memorable. Though he probably wouldn’t admit it, I think that small gesture is the reason my dad warmed up to Ethan. They get along great now! One day, I would love it if Ethan uses the same personalized rosesto propose to me. Now that’d be a story I could tell over and over again. Thank you, Speaking Roses!
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Using flowers, specifically roses, to convey messages to loved ones has been a tradition established over several centuries. As time has gone on, people have found more ways to make the gift of flowers even more personal. Now, with Speaking Roses’ unique flower printer, you can add a third element to intensify the impact your gift of roses will have.
Not only do certain colors have different meanings, there are also meanings hidden in the number of roses exchanged between people. To make your expression of love have an even more powerful emotional response, we provide to you this guide to the significance of the quantity and colors of roses.
Meaning of Numbers:
1: Love at the first sight. The single rose depicts utmost devotion to a single person.
2: Mutual feelings of two people who are deeply in love.
3: Stand for the three words in the simple yet powerful message “I Love You.”
5: I love you very much.
6: I love you and miss you. Conveys the need to be loved and cherished.
7: I’m smitten by you.
9: We will be together as long as we live.
10: You are perfect.
11: You are my treasured one. To assure someone that they are truly and deeply loved.
12: Be mine. Suggests a steady relationship.
13: We will be forever friends. Also indicates that there is a secret admirer waiting to be discovered.
15: I’m very sorry. Please forgive me.
20: My feelings for you are truly sincere.
21: I’m committed to only you.
24: You’re always on my mind. Signifies that the loved one is thought of during all twenty-four hours of the day.
25: Congratulations!
36: I’m head over heels in love with you. Also can mean remembrance of romantic moments shared.
40: My love for you is genuine.
44: I will love you forever. Pledge a constant and an unchanging love.
50: My love for you will live on forever.
99: I will love you till the day I die.
100: I want to grow old with you. Represents a century.
101: You’re my one and only.
108: Will you marry me?
365: I love you every single day. Speak of a love that will remain constant and true throughout every day of the year.
999: Our love knows no bounds. Signifies everlasting and eternal love.
Meaning of Colors:
Red: Love & affection, Romantic & Abiding Love, True Love, Desire, Courage & Passion, Courage & Passion
Dark Red: Deep passion, Readiness for a commitment, Unconscious beauty, dying love
Light pink: Gentleness, Joy & Grace, Admiration, Sympathy & Gentleness, Harmony & Warmth
Pink: Grace & Elegance, Admiration for beauty and refinement, Sweetness
Bright pink: Appreciation & Recognition, “Thank You”, Gratitude, Admiration
Lavender: Love at first sight, Regal majesty and splendor, Wonder & Impossibility
Purple: Enchantment & Magnetism, Opulence & Majesty
Blue: Mystery & Ambiguity, The impossible or The unattainable, “You are extraordinarily wonderful”, Mysterious beginnings of new things
White: Purity & Innocence, Reverence & Humility, Heavenly & Honor, Everlasting love, Marriages and New Beginnings, Remembrance
Yellow: Friendship and “I care”, unbridled joy, Promise of a new beginning, Gladness, Delight, Warmth, Good Luck, Welcome Back, Remember Me
Peach: Modesty, Closing of a new deal, Great cheer, Sincerity & Genuineness, Sympathy, Gratitude and Thankfulness
Orange: Fascination, Passion & Desire, Enthusiasm & Energy, Pride, “I am so proud of you”
Black: Farewell & Sorrow, Loss & Mortality, Death of Old habits, Beginning of new things or a journey, Courage & Resistance, Halloween
Now that you have this knowledge of the meanings of the colors and quantities of roses, combine it with a personalized embossed Speaking Roses message with one of our flower printers! Your loved one will never have received such a unique and thoughtful gift!
Please feel free to share with us your thoughts or interpretations, as well as experiences of giving or receiving flowers with these meaningful combinations.
Last month I had the unfortunate experience of having to visit Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah with my three year old, Carson. We had to stay at the hospital for nearly a week. There were many friends and family members that came to visit us. It meant a lot to me and my son to have so many people come in and express their love and support.
One of my friends, Katherine, was unable to come visit us while we were in the hospital but had a beautiful bouquet of roses, personalized using a flower printer, sent to us. They were a lovely vibrant yellow (my son’s favorite color) and imprinted with the words “Get Well Soon.” She even had a few printed with his favorite cartoon character! They were absolutely gorgeous and we kept them by his hospital bed the whole time we were there and even brought them home with us.
Carson was born with a very serious heart condition but had been doing very well. He only had one more out of his five surgeries left to be performed, and things were looking good. So it was quite an emotional shock when, out of nowhere, his heart took a turn for the worst and we had to rush to the hospital and have him put in Pediatric Intensive Care immediately. It always means a lot to receive flowers from a loved one, but to have someone who made it that much more thoughtful by having a flower printer put personal messages and images on the flowers was really a new experience. I was very touched! Once we got home and settled, I called Katherine to tell her how much the flowers meant to us. She was so happy that we liked them.
Three days ago, Katherine came by to see how we were doing. This time she brought chocolates with “I Love You” imprinted on them! They were nice to look at, but even nicer to eat (the ink was edible!). She then told me about how she had joined a company called Speaking Roses, who is the inventor of this amazing flower printer. She went through the training online from her home computer and then immediately began using her new flower printer to emboss messages, images, logos, etc. on quite a variety of things. Katherine said her biggest seller was roses, but she was able to print on any type of live plant. And, as we were able to see and taste, edible products like chocolates and fruits too!
Before talking to Katherine, I had never heard of these flower printers. So I went to their site, www.speakingroses.com, to find out more information about their company. The idea of becoming a licensee quickly became very appealing, and I decided to send my information in. I can’t wait to hear more about it. Very excited!
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Let me share with you how an embossed flower changed my life. It was my senior year of high school, the big year before I enter the “real world”. I felt pretty good about my high school career, I’d accomplished what I wanted- with the exception of one thing. There’s this girl, yes the girl I’d always wanted to date but never even spoken to. People always say life isn’t like the movies, but this aspect of my life felt like every teen movie I’ve ever seen. However I wasn’t nerdy or ugly! It was solely my fear that held me back this long. I’d laid in bed many nights devising how I would ask out Katy Berry. Till finally one night, it dawned on me that I needed to make myself stand out from all the other guys who also were madly in love with Katy Berry. It had to be something better than chocolates, jewelry, anything the typical guy gives. Thank goodness for the internet.
After a quick Google search, I came across the perfect thing to get my dream girls attention. Flowers! But not just any flowers, flowers embossed with messages on them! I asked some of my guy and girl friends if they had ever heard of embossed flowers, no one had. Surely Katy Berry hadn’t either. I could envision the look on Katy’s face as I asked her to go out with me while holding a beautiful, pink, rose embossed with a personal message from me. I had my way in.
To make a long story short, Katy Berry accepted my offer and went out with me. It spread through the school like wild fire that I asked Katy Berry out with a pink rose embossed with the message, “I promise to always surprise you. Go out with me?” I wasn’t sure if she was surprised I was asking her out, or because the rose was embossed with a message. Whatever it was, it worked. I completed my high school career fully satisfied that I went out with Katy Berry.
It turned out Katy Berry wasn’t the girl of my dreams. I went on to college and embossed flowers never failed me through the course of my dating. I studied business at the university and as the intensity of my homework increased, so did the effectiveness of embossed flowers. I dated and studied intensely in both areas, I began to feel overwhelmed! It always seemed that the two were competing for my attention, and I wasn’t willing to give up one to focus on the other. So again, I went back to the internet.
I looked at the website I’d seen years earlier where I first discovered embossed flowers. Life didn’t seem like it could have been any better than it was at the moment. I could combine the two most successful and fulfilling parts of my life! I discovered I could start my own business with embossed flowers! That is just what I’ve done.
Embossed flowers are the best kept secret. Once people find out they can emboss pictures, messages, logos, phrases, etc. they are hooked. I provide a great living for myself with my own embossed flower shop. Get in on this industry, I have no regrets about it. Check out embossed flowers by Speaking Roses to get your flower printer now.
With Easter only a few weeks away, my kids couldn’t wait any longer to dip their boiled eggs (and let’s be honest, mostly their fingers) in the multicolored water full of dye. The kits you can buy at the grocery stores get more elaborate each year. You can speckle the eggs, cover them with stickers, give them various textures, write messages on them with a white crayon; hey you can even stripe them! Dying eggs is a tradition I grew up with, and I enjoy passing it on to my children. I love seeing them get creative and sometimes silly as they dye eggs on the newspaper I’ve laid over every inch of the kitchen for those inevitable spills.
One year will always particularly stand out to me. It was the year we decided as a family to practice our spelling words on our Easter Eggs and count it as homework. The kids went for it! Once we were out of spelling words, we decided to write messages to our friends, neighbors, and each other. What a fun time for our family! It was nice to have a different way to express our love for others besides on a piece of paper or greeting card. This really got me thinking… what else could we use to deliver messages on?
That question changed my life. After a few Google searches, I found the most brilliant concept that I knew I had to be a part of. Technology has been developed which allows messages to be embossed on flowers. Incredible I thought! Little did I know that was just one of several things that can be embossed on flowers. Logos, icons, hand written messages, photographs, any of it embossed on a flower! I knew before I sat down with my husband to explain why we needed to invest in a flower printer, I needed some convincing evidence to prove we couldn’t live without it!
I began brainstorming different things I could use these embossed flowers for, thinking of the creative sayings I could emboss on them. I always struggle thinking of gifts for my kids school teachers, but not this year! An embossed flower with a picture of her and #1 Teacher sounded great. One of our good family friends has been going through a hard time and there isn’t much we can do to help her. However the simple gesture of embossing flowers that say “We’re Thinking of You” is something I can do. The company my husband works for is always looking for new giveaways and ways to show appreciation to their clients. Embossed flower s would be perfect for the company to use! We could even make some extra cash and emboss flowers as a home based business.
My husband latched onto the idea of embossed flowers without much persuasion at all. We have been so happy with our flower printer and emboss flowers almost daily for different people and events that come up. If you want a flower printer with quality embossing, I found that , Speaking Roses was the place to buy one.