Valentines Day Flowers Delivery - Local Austin Florist, King Florist Presents the “Be Mine, 2012” Valentine’s Day Collection

Local Austin Florist, King Florist is bringing a unique approach to Valentine’s Day. While some florists sell the same designs that they feature all year, the King Florist design team has created a custom floral collection titled “Be Mine, 2012” that is inspired by this holiday of love.
“Be Mine, 2012” was created to be cohesive, balanced and beautiful. The emphasis lies within the product that is being flown direct from Holland, Chile, Ecuador and Hawaii. Benoit Ballon, Owner and Creative Director of King Florist said; “Valentine’s Day is a holiday we focus on all year. We have been working hard to select farms with the most beautiful product since May of last year. Our goal is to valentinesday flowers delivery to Austinites that are beautiful, unique and are of amazing quality.”
This years collection features beautiful Orchids, Fragrant Hyacinth, Vandyke Tulips, premium Rose varieties and accents of “Heart Foliage” that is all too perfect for Valentine’s Day. Ballon said; “Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be all about red roses, the first flowers of Spring like hyacinth, tulips and hydrangea are just as, if not more, romantic and beautiful.”
To finish off the collection, each design is hand created in one of King Florist’s premium vases and are accented with a unique lily grass necklace and pendant, the elements that create the “Be Mine, 2012” signature. Lynsey Reece, Manager at King Florist said; “We love that the collection has a cohesive feel. Each person sending and receiving flowers will know that it came from King Florist. You can relate it to shopping at Tiffany’s; whether you’re buying simple diamond earrings or a full diamond necklace, the experience, quality and care is always the same.”

valentines day flowers delivery - Faust Park Valentine's dinner has 19th century theme

You should always make your valentines day flowers delivery reservations early, but you probably only have a week or so left to get in on the Sweetheart's Dinner at Thornhill, the restored home of second Missouri governor Frederic Bates in Faust Park in Chesterfield.
Tickets for the dinner -- which is actually Sat., Feb. 11, three days before valentines day flowers delivery -- are $65 and include a four-course dinner from servers in period costumes. Couples will be seated at candlelit tables for four. Call 314-615-8328 for more information or reservations

valentines day flowers delivery - Big-band singer had vast fan base

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Big-band singer Marilyn Beckman Niles, who performed on Columbus TV shows and in central Ohio clubs and dinner theaters, is being remembered for her effervescent singing.

Best-known under her stage name, Marilyn Daye, Niles died on Monday in Naples, Fla. She was 85.

“She was very bubbly, very upbeat,” said Jim Roberts, a friend and former Columbus resident who lives in Florida.

“Marilyn was a popular big-band songstress who had her own fan base from years back.”

She launched her career at 17 with the Don Crawford Orchestra when Crawford played the Ionian Room of the Deshler-Wallick Hotel. She was the featured vocalist with the band until 1950.

In 1946, she was one of six winners in a nationwide Tommy Dorsey talent contest. Later, she performed with Chuck Selby’s big band and the WBNS Studio Band and was heard regularly on WBNS radio’s Date With Daye and Song Shop broadcasts.

In the 1970s, she formed the Capital City Jazz Band and performed regularly at the Dell in German Village.

Daye, also known as “Mrs. Spook,” continued to perform in central Ohio into the 1980s, appearing with the Marilyn Daye Band in 1988 as part of Upper Arlington’s summer Music in the Park series.

She was the wife of Frederick “Spook” Beckman, the Columbus disc jockey and TV personality who died in 1986. She later married Ralph Niles.

Even after the death of Beckman, whom she got to know as his assistant on his TV show, Niles continued to make appearances in support of his many charity efforts for underprivileged kids, such as Spook’s Santa Claus Zoo.

She spent her retirement singing with keyboardist Day Keane in the Marilyn and Dan Duo. They gave their last performance on valentines day flowers delivery in Naples, Fla.

Niles was among the performers honored in 1995 at the first enshrinement of the Columbus Senior Musicians Hall of Fame.