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Mary Beth Lopresti, Theresa Hambleton
All Seasons Floral Preservation
http://www.allseasonspressed.com  
703-283-9447

     Owned by the sister team of Theresa Hambleton and Mary Beth Lopresti, All Seasons Floral Preservation presses, preserves, and creates framed floral art with special occasion flowers.  By combining their years of experience in artistic design, customer service, and botanical preservation they have quickly earned a nationwide reputation as creators of exquisite floral art.

     All Seasons Floral Preservation has two Virginia locations.  Theresa presses flowers and creates floral art in her studio, just off the pedestrian mall, in Charlottesville.  Working out of her home in Sterling, Mary Beth is able to serve their clients in Northern Virginia, DC, and Maryland.  If delivering the flowers to either location is not convenient, they will guide clients through the process of shipping their fresh flowers to All Seasons Floral Preservation.  Mary Beth takes great pleasure in working with every client to select the layout, background mat, and frame style for each work of art.  Design meetings generally take place in Sterling, or over the phone with their out of town clients. 

     All Seasons Floral Preservation has received recognition as a 2009 Wedding Wire Bride's Choice Award Winner and Theresa's floral art interpretation of The Natural Bridge won The Viewer's Choice Award at the University of Virginia's 2007 Flowers Interpret Art Exhibition.  In addition, they were featured in a May, 2008 article in The Washington Post Sunday Magazine. 

     Creating All Seasons Floral Preservation has been an amazing experience for Theresa & Mary Beth, both professionally and personally. It has allowed them the opportunity to use their talents to help others enjoy, forever, the flowers from life's special celebrations. And, the way they see it, what could be better than doing what you love with your sister?

Selecting Flowers to Press

In this video series the owners of All Seasons Pressed, Mary Beth Lopresti and Theresa Hambleton demonstrate the process of preserving and storing flowers. They also show how to design a pressed flower bookmark and create a pressed flower frame.

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