Creative Blog
The Language of Flowers
Have you seen our gorgeous new range of gifts featuring the language of flowers? Our amazing creative team have designed our latest range of hand drawn flowers with the idea in mind to send that special someone a personalised gift with flowers representing their personality traits or role they play in your life. We'd love to explain a little more about the design and each of the flowers...
Sending flowers is a classic way to show how much you love someone, perfect for Valentine's, Mother's Day and Birthdays. But our creative minds thought we could do with an equally lovely floral alternative, with the advantage they can be sent easily through the post and don't get thrown away within the week. That's when we discovered the language of flowers, each flower has a different meaning that can reflect the different people in our lives, and what a gorgeous way to explain what someone means to you than with flowers (especially if you are rubbish with words!)
So what does each flower mean?
So whether you want to show support to that special someone going through a loss, or want to tell your Mum just how much she means to you and how much you appreciate her, the language of flowers is the perfect way to do it.
Explore the collection to find your next gift...
We'd love to see your photos of those special people and the flowers you have chosen for them, tag us on Instagram using #solesmith
Love flowers as much as we do? Take a look at our lovely Birth Flower blog
Nachos, Snacks and Game Night

The Food
Our Guide to Ultimate Nachos

Nachos can be as easy or as difficult as you want them to be. However, essential components include Tortilla chips (obviously!), cheese, salsa and Guacamole. But we encourage that when it comes to nachos more is more! So this is our version...
Ingredients
Salted Tortilla chips
Cheddar cheese
avocados x 2
red onions x 2
medium tomatoes x6
garlic x 1 clove
Lime x1
coriander (1/2 bunch)
Sour cream (one pot)
Making the salsa
Chop the tomatoes, one of the onions and half of the coriander to roughly the same size. chop finely or into larger pieces depending on whether you want it chunkier or smoother.
Then finely chop the garlic clove.
Combine all your ingredients together in a bowl.
Add the juice of half a lime (save your other half.)
Keep in the fridge until you make your nachos.
Making the Guacamole
finely chop one onion and two tomatoes.
Roughly chop all of the avocados in to 1cm chunks.
Roughly chop the coriander.
Put everything you’ve chopped so far in to a bowl. take the back of a fork and mash the ingredients together, you’re trying to make it really smooth, but just so it comes to together.
add the juice of other half of the lime and a touch of salt if desired.
Making your Nachos
Now the fun bit!
grate the cheese (when you think you’ve done enough, do some more!)
The key to good nachos is layering!
So take a large plate/bowl/platter and spread a handful of the tortilla chips over the base of the plate. Then sprinkle over a handful of cheese.
You then need to keep repeating these layers until you’ve ran out of tortilla chips, but remember to leave enough cheese for the top!
You then need to put a few big spoonfuls of salsa on top of your glorious mountain of cheese and tortillas.
Cover everything in (you guessed it) more cheese and put under the grill for about 5 minutes. But keep an eye on it because a stray chip can catch!
To finish, dollop generous spoonfuls of your guacamole and sour cream.
To add something a little extra special, try making a slow cooked chilli or add an acidic punch with jalapenos and pickled pink onions!
Thirsty? Your drinks are sorted too!
As a host you may need an apron to protect your lovely outfit, check out our gorgeous selection!
Share the fun you had on your game night with us, with #solesmith.