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Summer is going buy so fast this year and the rain has been overwhelming. I have finished my treatments and feeling great once again. Our plan is to support 3 Aleethia Dinners and then with mixed emotions - close our doors end of October. Our ten year journey has been so rewarding; providing smiles and healing through flowers to our wounded warriors. We started at Walter Reed Army, then supporting Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, added Aleethia Foundation Dinners, Fisher Houses and then Boulder Crest Retreat in Bluemont, Va. We created flowers for warrior weddings, retirements and funerals. Our venues changed but our mission never faltered from bringing joy to our hero's and dedicated veterans! Freedom Petals couldn't exist without the creativity and hard work of our partners (Herndon Florist, Trader Joes) and our many volunteers. Thank you so much for giving us your precious talents and time.</div>
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Michele Bevingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11682117336790982794noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2922678872409404239.post-75876603157923889092018-05-06T09:16:00.001-07:002018-05-06T09:16:57.756-07:0027 April Flower Event for Aleethia FoundationThe April flower event went off smoothly with my wonderful volunteers picking up the flower donations at Traders and getting them in buckets of water. Since I am watching my granddaughter this year and cannot pick up the flowers everyday from Traders everyone has stepped up to the plate to make our events happen. <br />
Barbara was the leader and ran the show that Friday 27 April. We had 13 volunteers creating the most beautiful arrangements and the flowers from Traders were so exquisite. All the extra flower arrangements went to Fisher House! Yahoo!<br />
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We started back with a very successful January flower event to support the Aleethia Dinner at the Capital Hill Club.</div>
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Another year begins with a room filled with smiles and flowers for the<i> Aleethia Foundation's</i> "Friday Night Dinner" held on January 19, 2018. The "Freedom Petals" volunteers provided outstanding floral designs for each table. An added surprise was the array of potted plants including miniature daffodils, anthurium, clyclamen and the "money tree" plants that provided such enthusiasm throughout the room as folks selected a plant to take back with them. Several caregivers volunteered to assist with bringing the extra floral arrangements and plants back to the Walter Reed patients who were unable to attend the dinner and to the Fisher Houses on base where their families are staying during their healing and rehabilitation. It's no secret that flowers can boost morale, improve moods and bring healing energy.</div>
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Thanks so much for "Freedom Petals" continuing their mission to bring smiles and caring to the wounded/injured/ill service members and their families who attend the <i>Aleethia Foundation's</i> Friday Night Dinners.</div>
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Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you for your time, friendship, and creativity. </div>
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The end of 2017 was a huge success, October was our last flower event. Happy Halloween flowers were shared at the Aleethia dinner. Lots of spiders, pumpkins and scarecrows. November was a very successful speaking engagement at the Annapolis Naval Academy garden club. Marilyn and I helped the members make special bedside mugs filled with fall flowers for a local veteran home. </div>
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This past fall I began my next chapter in life, watching my new beautiful funny granddaughter, Miss Avery. She is such a joy. With that said I will need lots more support from all of you to keep this mission going for another year.</div>
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Michele Bevingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11682117336790982794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2922678872409404239.post-24025040737471637862017-06-29T05:21:00.001-07:002017-06-29T05:21:17.651-07:00Boulder Crest Retreat 4th Annual Hoedown fundraiser 3 June 2017<div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
We supported the Hoedown for Boulder Crest Retreat on June 3, 2017. Freedom Petals created beautiful flower arrangements for each dinning table and end tables throughout the main building. Our volunteers also made arrangements for each cabin. </div>
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Our arrangements for the tables were in cowboy boots vases with western/field flowers that sat in the middle of each table. Everyone was so excited and pleased with the motif and said that they were so appropriate for the occasion.</div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: large;"><b>Thank you and all the wonderful volunteers of Freedom Petals who designed and provided beautiful corsages and floral arrangements to help celebrate Military Spouse Appreciation Day and Mother's Day Weekend at Aleethia's May 12 "Friday Night Dinners." The ladies throughout the room were excited to receive the corsages and some of the men asked me for a corsage to take back to their nurses (since it was the last day of "Nurses Week") or for their Moms. I'm attaching a photo of scenes of "smiling faces!" Also, the four hydrangea plants found four different homes. One is making its way to a service member's family in Fort Eustis in Virgnia Beach.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: large;"><b>Again, thank you for helping us to honor Moms, Spouses, Nurses, a newly married couple and a "newly" engaged couple with an array of flowers. It was quite an exciting evening for all!</b></span></div>
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<br />Michele Bevingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11682117336790982794noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2922678872409404239.post-13748478123149965562017-04-11T06:55:00.003-07:002017-04-11T06:55:46.460-07:00April Wounded Warrior Wedding at Walter Reed Freedom Petals Inc. and The Herndon Florist provided beautiful flowers for a special couple at Walter Reed this month. We were so excited to help Rick and Lynn with their wedding flowers.<br />
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<br />Michele Bevingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11682117336790982794noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2922678872409404239.post-89237438189514701512017-04-01T11:43:00.000-07:002017-04-01T11:44:24.252-07:00February/March Events - Speaking Engagements and Warrior Dinner Whew! This has been a very busy 2017 already. We had two successful speaking projects; one with the Laurel Garden Club in Springfield, VA February 28th and one at Fort Myers Army Officer Spouses Club of Greater Washington Area (AOSCGWA). We have three volunteers from the Laurel Club; Carrie, Judy and Joyce. Thanks for all your support.<br />
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Our St. Patty's day flower event for the Wounded Warrior Aleethia Dinner at the Fairfax/Arlington Elks club was wonderful. Thanks to everyone who baked delicious "Green" cupcakes for this occasion. They were deeply appreciated by all. We had several new happy volunteers who came to learn and try their hands at creating flowers for this event. They had attended our speaking engagements and came to help at this event.<br />
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Once again our thank you notes from Margaret say it all. And she includes a collage of our flowers from the dinners. We love the families and warriors that Margaret and Hal support every Friday night at the dinners. We have met some of the most interesting veterans.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Dearest Michele,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Thank you and your band of "Freedom Petals" volunteers for all the beautiful floral arrangements that brighten up the room and filled the room with smiles. Over 60 wounded/injured/ill service members, their families and guests enjoyed the "St Paddy's Day" theme flower arrangements at Aleethia's Friday Night Dinner held on March 17th at the Fairfax Elks Lodge. Flowers bring a moment to forget about our troubles. Many attending the dinner are going through cancer treatments and the flowers certainly lifted their spirits. The extra bouquets were taken back to the Fisher Houses to bring joy to those unable to attend the dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Also, we thank the volunteers who provided the "dozens" of amazing "green" cupcakes We took a few back to Fisher House 5 that has many children residing in this house. We heard they were eaten within minutes of the delivery and left many "green" smiling faces!!!</span><br />
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Michele Bevingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11682117336790982794noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2922678872409404239.post-20588749781235171062017-02-16T15:36:00.000-08:002017-02-16T15:36:33.451-08:00February 3rd Aleethia Dinner and Boulder Crest Couples Dinner FlowersThe Friday, February 3rd 2017 flower event was a huge success. We had new volunteers and of course our Friday team working very hard to make the early Valentine themed flowers so beautiful.<br />
Thank you to all who share their talents at my house every month creating bouquets for our heroes.<br />
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Here is the note from Margaret of Aleethia and a collage of our dinner table arrangements.<br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Hi Michele,</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Thanks to you and the Freedom Petals' volunteers for spreading joy with flowers! The floral arrangements always add beauty to the tables and fill the room with positive energy and smiling faces. I'm attaching a collage of "smiling faces!" Cheryl was so happy to take back the extra bouquets to the Fisher Houses and she was planning to put bouquets in the patients/families' rooms to brighten their day and make them feel special. I heard the cupcakes were gone within the hour of their delivery.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">As you know flowers serve a dual function ... the joy of both giving and receiving!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">We look forward to Freedom Petals bringing more smiles to Aleethia's Friday Night Dinner in March.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Best,</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Margaret</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Aleethia Foundation</span></b></span><br />
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The first week in February I also received a call from Carrie our contact at Boulder Crest Retreat in Bluemont Va. asking for some table flower arrangements for a couples dinner they were planning for </div>
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Saturday 11 February. The large farm tables are in each of the log cabins on the property. Theresa and I got together one afternoon and created them for this event. Thank you so much for your time and talents.</div>
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Michele Bevingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11682117336790982794noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2922678872409404239.post-57529621184531544122016-11-15T12:33:00.000-08:002016-11-15T12:33:04.515-08:00Daughters of the American Revolution Speaking Engagement - 12 November 2016<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
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Michele Bevingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11682117336790982794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2922678872409404239.post-28076387273416539952016-11-15T12:12:00.001-08:002016-11-15T12:12:54.097-08:004 November Aleethia Dinner Event<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Thanks to you and all the wonderful volunteers of Freedom Petals who designed such beautiful floral arrangements for Aleethia’s Friday Night Dinner held on November 4, 2016 at the Washington Golf & Country Club. It made the dining room more welcoming and created a sharing atmosphere. It’s been said that the essence of flowers contain magical healing powers and that was quite evident by all the excited smiles. Besides all the service members and caregivers leaving the dinner with a container of flowers, several bouquets were delivered to families at the Fisher Houses on base. We learned that one of the Fisher Houses was hosting a “pancake breakfast” for Veterans on Saturday and were thrilled to receive some of the centerpieces. The “floral ballpoint pens” were delivered to the staff on the oncology wards at WRNMMC. <u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Also, we greatly appreciate your generosity in donating the gift cards that will be included in the upcoming holiday gift bags for the wounded/injured/ill service members and caregivers.<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Again, thank you for touching everyone in such a joyful and unique way. We wish you, your volunteers and their families a very Blessed Thanksgiving!<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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Michele Bevingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11682117336790982794noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2922678872409404239.post-22413120124934529472016-09-20T08:05:00.001-07:002016-09-20T08:12:45.162-07:00Aleethia Dinner - at the Rock Creek Knights of Columbus Hall <span style="font-size: large;">The Freedom Petals flower event to support the Friday Night Aleethia Dinner 16 September sponsored by the Ledo Club was a huge success. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The flower collection during the week was not so successful because fall brings lots of potted plants instead of bouquets.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So as usual when I request our creative volunteers to bring some flowers they always come through. Also, Barbara Levermann from the Western Fairfax Women's Club and the Chantilly Garden Club brought 4 coolers full of flowers and beautiful greens from their gardens to supplement our event. I can't thank her enough and her crew for these perfect donations. My special partner for the last seven years Anne Harvey from the Herndon Florist donated a huge multi-colored box of Alstroemeria. She is always our angel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ten volunteers came to work and create over 40 arrangements for the dinner tables and for everyone to bring back a special flower to Walter Reed. We had two new Freedom Petal volunteers (Betty and Jane) that helped to make the flags and silk flower pens for the Walter Reed Nurses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to all for your time and passion you give each month!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What a night! With 20 "playful" children in attendance, we definitely needed the flowers to make the environment of the room more relaxed and happy while providing increased levels of positive energy! Everyone left with smiles. Also, some of the extras bouquets brought smiles to patients staying at the Fisher Houses. The floral pens headed to Building 10 (WRNMMC) and were given to nurses on several wards.</span><br />
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Thanks so much to the Freedom Petals Family,<br />
God Bless, Michele<br />
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Our June flower event was a huge success. We started at 8:30 am so we would be finished before noon. This was the first time Freedom Petals supported The Boulder Crest Retreat for wounded warriors in Bluemont, VA. Thanks so much to the volunteers who created 20 beautiful table arrangements, 6 extra vases and 3 large baskets. The mason jar flowers were all donated by Anne Harvey from The Herndon Florist in downtown Herndon.</div>
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The Hoedown was a fundraising event serving lots of barbecue, hotdogs and a country band. They had 200 guests. Keith and I delivered the flowers at 2pm. </div>
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The flowers were the icing on the cake and everyone was delighted with our special touches for this event. Thanks again for a successful event.</div>
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The vounteer brunch was so much fun and we shared a delicious breakfast prepared by </div>
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Thanks for coming to our events and sharing your talents and the gift of your time.</div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Just wanted to remind everyone that our first Volunteer Appreciation Brunch will be held at 9am on Friday, 13 May.</b></span><span style="color: #274e13;"> We still have room and lots of food if anyone has a change in plans for that morning. I can't wait to just sit down together to eat and enjoy the morning; reflecting on our successful journey bringing flowers to many wounded warriors over the last seven years. Please let me know if you want to be added to our list of attendees. </span></div>
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I'm excited to tell you that Joan H. and I visited The Boulder Crest Retreat for Military and Veteran Wellness in <span aria-haspopup="true" class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" data-g-spell-status="2" id=":118.2" role="menuitem" style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" tabindex="-1">Bluemont</span>, VA last Tuesday. We received a private tour of the 37 Acre retreat for wounded warriors and their families. I encourage everyone to please visit this amazing venue started to help our hero's heal and enjoy a family vacation as well. <span aria-haspopup="true" class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" data-g-spell-status="2" id=":118.3" role="menuitem" style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" tabindex="-1">bouldercrestretreat</span>.org (check out the website)</div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">As a result of our visit we have signed up to support Boulder Crest's annual fundraising event </span><b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">"A Hoedown"</span></i></b><span style="color: #274e13;"> with 20 table arrangements and several flower baskets to raffle.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: red;">So our June event will be on Saturday, 4 June at 9am.</span></u></b><span style="color: #274e13;"> We will deliver the flowers that same day to the Retreat.</span></div>
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Michele Bevingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11682117336790982794noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2922678872409404239.post-7618745720825665932016-03-15T14:34:00.004-07:002016-03-15T14:34:54.007-07:0011 March 2016 Aleethia Dinner at the Fairfax Elks Club<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOGYirQK6Hm5g9mXSHzw4rOG_5Cti1CyFxT-87uGKoX3xxN_dDYCW8YrZpIegSnW3XsqN7xTJMHAJ-y4nRrf2PWYOwM1FOu3P1_m6y_LPUcWznmqKjVHPHuZaPXrIdo9weE-K_KyHImmUz/s1600/AF+-+Freedom+Petals+3-11-16_Page000-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOGYirQK6Hm5g9mXSHzw4rOG_5Cti1CyFxT-87uGKoX3xxN_dDYCW8YrZpIegSnW3XsqN7xTJMHAJ-y4nRrf2PWYOwM1FOu3P1_m6y_LPUcWznmqKjVHPHuZaPXrIdo9weE-K_KyHImmUz/s640/AF+-+Freedom+Petals+3-11-16_Page000-1.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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Beautiful St. Patrick's Day flowers for the Aleethia Friday Night Warrior Dinner</div>
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All the flowers were donated from Trader Joes. Beautiful potted azealias and hyacinths too. Birthday baskets and cakes for the Birthday Girls. Everyone enjoyed the Thanksgiving menu in March...Turkey and Dressing. We have so much to be thankful for.</div>
Michele Bevingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11682117336790982794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2922678872409404239.post-89423626978087448322016-02-22T12:41:00.000-08:002016-02-22T12:41:01.547-08:00Post Valentine's Flower Event - 19 February 2016 <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The Friday, 19 February flower event was a huge success thanks to all the volunteers that came to create </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">beautiful arrangements for the Aleethia Foundation Friday Night dinner at the WGCC in Arlington. Trader Joe's was so wonderful calling me all week with their extra valentine Roses, forced tulip vases and cut Tulip donations. We had so many beautiful roses from the Valentine weekend. Because of all the flowers that were donated by Traders I had a last minute idea...on Thursday, 18 February I called Marcelo at Fisher House on Walter Reed Base to see if I could drop off large vases of roses and buckets of colorful tulips for the Fisher House residents on Friday. So crazy right!!! On the same day as of the event and the dinner. I just didn't want to throw so many flowers away. He said great and was sending in my name for a day pass. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">But when I saw Marilyn (super volunteer) at the door to help that morning...another crazy idea was to have her come with me and use her military ID to get on base. Yes, she said, "YES"! She had no plans that day. So we left at noon for Walter Reed when all the work was done at my house. The Fisher House staff met us at the door and were so excited.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This weekend I received this email and picture collage below from Margaret (The Aleethia Foundation Queen Bee). You never really know what the impact the Freedom Petals flowers make until you get a note like this below. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Spoke with the Elks Lodge organizer and they are delighted Freedom Petals will be provided St. Patrick theme florals! Their tables will have white tablecloths and napkins.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Again, thanks to Freedom Petals for the beautiful "Valentine" flower arrangements. The tables looked absolutely amazing. The glass vases with the tulip bulbs were very unique and so many folks told me how excited they are to watch their tulips bloom...All the "birthday boys" enjoyed their special arrangements. Our sponsor was delighted to see "yellow roses" in her arrangement. Seems her husband (1950 West Point grad-Korean & Vietnam Veteran) who died ten years ago on this past </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_249971260" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Thursday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">, would always give her "yellow roses!" The wife who got the orchid plant told me that she collects and raises orchids and was so excited to receive the plant. Her face was beaming! During the last year, she has been fighting the court system in NC in dealing with her husband's case. There were so many stories ... and the flowers brought everyone a moment of joy.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I read this quote the other day - "....flowers are the sunshine, food and medicine for the soul..." Thanks to all the wonderful Freedom Petal volunteers and donors of the flowers for bringing happiness to the wounded/injured/ill service members, their caregivers and family members who attend Aleethia's "</span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_249971261" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Night Dinners."</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hugs to all!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Margaret</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Aleethia Foundation</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the beautiful flowers I got at one of the </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_929523815" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> night dinners. The cutest part of it is my 21 year old son ( wounded warrior ) handing me these beautiful flowers as he picked them out from a table. Your designs and thought process behind each and every floral arrangement ( well it is a labor of love and so appreciated ). Thank you from one appreciative Army Mom. Love with great gratitude Donna </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Thanks to all the Friday Flower Team for creating such beautiful fall blooms for the Aleethia Dinner sponsored by the Washington/Arlington Golf Club for our wounded warriors and their families.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hi Michele,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Thanks again for filling the WGCC dining room with beautiful flowers for Aleethia's "Friday Night Dinner" on October 23, 2015. The Autumn/Halloween theme made for a festive evening. Also, thanks to you and Barb for your assistance with the door prize giveaway. I always enjoy the end of the evening when the florals are distributed and you see a room glowing with smiles and excitement. No matter what your are feeling at the time .... flowers bring a moment of comfort, happiness and more. "Freedom Petals' is part of the healing/recovery process!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Enjoy your weekend!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hugs to all!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Margaret</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Aleethia Foundation</span><br />
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Michele Bevingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11682117336790982794noreply@blogger.com142tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2922678872409404239.post-34417766024591151782015-09-01T17:09:00.001-07:002015-09-01T17:09:22.390-07:0021/22 August Freedom Petals Flower EventThe August Freedom Petals event was a huge success.... On Friday, 21 August the volunteers got ready for a first time ever Barbecue. All the bouquets were in mason jars. We created 10 mason jars, several baskets and a birthday arrangement. We had so many beautiful flowers donated from Anne Harvey, Herndon Florist and a few days of collecting from Trader Joe's Reston. Thanks to our supporting partners we had a successful Aleethia Friday night dinner at the Fairfax/Arlington Elks Club.<br />
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The Saturday volunteers created all the flowers for the Walter Reed visit and the Fisher House delivery. Monday the hospital was so appreciative and once again we saw lots of smiles from the Fisher House staff. Our flowers bring lots of hope and healing to our wounded warriors and their families.<br />
Thanks again for your time, prayers, and gifts.<br />
God Bless, MicheleMichele Bevingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11682117336790982794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2922678872409404239.post-599860822622396512015-08-14T16:36:00.002-07:002015-08-14T16:36:18.022-07:00AUGUST 2015 FLOWER EVENT PLANS <div class="adn ads" style="border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 8px;">
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The August flower event is next weekend. 21/22 August. Please reply to this email if you can come out to create flower arrangements for our wounded warriors. We are supporting the Friday Night Dinner (Aleethia Foundation) a barbecue at the Elks Lodge.</div>
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We will also be visiting Walter Reed National Medical Center - Fisher House and the hospital as well. </div>
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Friday, 21 August - 9 to noon</div>
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I wanted to share one more story. Freedom Petals created a few arrangements for a retirement ceremony as Walter Reed facility. The warrior is one that we met at the Friday night dinners. It is so exciting to see some of the service members that we have met through the years finally doing well enough to retire and move back home.</div>
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Please find attached below the collage from the July Aleethia Dinner at the Press Club. The flowers were so beautiful and every family took home an arrangement.</div>
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Thanks for your volunteer time and all the vases that show up on my stoop.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">But let me start at the beginning. The Aleethia Foundation Friday night dinner was held at the National Press Club on 14th Street in Washington. It is an impressive building with lots and lots of memorabilia of current and past news makers. What a great place to have a dinner for our wounded warriors. </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">The guest speaker was a wounded warrior himself who is now working for the American Legion in Texas. Not only did the American Legion sponsor the dinner, but they also provided 4 iPads as door prizes and information on how the current wounded warriors can get different types of assistance through the legions in their area. The dinner was very good and the company even better.</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="color: #222222;" /></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">I can say that our flowers did wonders to the tables and the room itself was much warmer and a beautiful place. </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">And, here is the best part. Just before our wonderful volunteers were finish making their last arrangement </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2066534897" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Friday</span></span><span style="color: #222222;">, Michele asked each of us to make just one more. It was a good thing she did, as we were able to give each lady at the dinner an arrangement to take home. I am saying that we gave every one of the arrangements away with NOTHING left over. Every women in the room was able to take home flowers (to their excitement). Now you understand why we say HOORAY! Every women walked out of the dinner happily carrying flowers. Phew!!!</span></span></b><br style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial Black, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Barbara A. Kutner</span><br style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial Black, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="mailto:b.kutner@hotmail.com" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">b.kutner@hotmail.com</a></span></div>
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Our next flower event will be Mother's Day weekend. Looking forward to seeing everyone on Friday, 8 May to support the Aleethia Dinner and on Saturday, 9 May to create arrangements for the Walter Reed Mother's Day Brunch. We will also be making fresh flower corsages for Fisher House and the Aleethia Dinner. Our florist friend Lori G. in Matoon, Illinois made and mailed Freedom Petals more than 100 beautiful silk corsages for the brunch. Thanks so much once again for your support.</div>
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Thanks again for all the vases, silk flowers and materials that have been donated in 2015. Thanks to the Silver Spring Lion's club and the various VA Garden Clubs that have financially supported us through the last six years. And for all our Freedom Petals friends and family who have sent me cards, checks and volunteered your time to this great non-profit organization. I know the wounded warriors and their families have been comforted and touched by our flowers. As long as there is a need we will continue our mission.</div>
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Michele Bevingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11682117336790982794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2922678872409404239.post-48973578802564004612015-04-03T08:47:00.005-07:002015-04-03T08:47:49.255-07:00MARCH 2015 FLOWER EVENTThe <span style="color: #274e13;">March Flower event was a huge success. We had our regular hard working Friday volunteers. The colorful flowers from Trader Joe's finally brought spring time into our hearts. Everyone was eager to contribute to our great mission of bringing smiles to our injured hero's. We finished up all the Aleethia Dinner table arrangements and several baskets of flowers for gifts. We also completed the Walter Reed hospital arrangements as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"> </span><span style="color: #4c1130;">The Aleethia Dinner had a huge turn out. Warriors and their families enjoyed a steak dinner. Every family received a flower arrangement to take home. Orchids plants from Trader Joe's brought joy to many as well. We have had such a cold winter and spring the flowers certainly warmed the room.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Saturday was a very busy day, there were fewer volunteers so the workload was heavier. We concentrated on large vase arrangements for Fisher House at Walter Reed. The large baskets for the Hospital entrance and Fisher house desks were the icing on the cake, with bright pinks and spring time yellows. Thank you to all the volunteers for making our March weekend Freedom Petal event a huge success. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #4c1130;">by Joan Holecko</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Spring is here and so were the vases filled with beautiful flowers! We are getting so good at what we do. Who would know they were not created by professional florists. I am sure the residents of Fisher House and the Wounded Warriors can not tell.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Entry to The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is becoming more challenging. It didn't help that Michele and I were trying to enter simultaneously when there was an attempted forced entry at the NSA headquarters!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Thank you to all of the volunteers that make this all possible.</span></b></span></div>
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