Seattle Times:
When the rest of us are struck by a Big Idea, it usually involves ditching dinner plans and driving through KFC. Lori Hall’s big idea landed her on ‘Oprah.’ And maybe even QVC.
Hall, a 46-year-old stay-at-home mom from Fall City, invented the EZ Bouquet, a sweet little sphere that makes flower arranging, well, EZ. And she showed it to the free world earlier this month on Oprah’s Search for the Next Big Idea, a virtual parade of clever new products. ‘This started as a little project… but had lasting power, unlike many of my other ideas,’ Hall wrote in an e-mail recently. ‘It would go on the back burner, and something would come up that would spur me on. I feel it was meant to be.’
While Hall’s invention wasn’t chosen by Oprah’s audience for automatic QVC attention, the home-shopping network is considering selling the EZ Bouquet anyway, Hall said. (Take that, audience!)
In a nutshell (or nut-sphere, perhaps), the EZ Bouquet is a round plastic ball with a built-in grid that fits floral stems. You can pop the sphere into a vase, use just half the sphere or make pomander balls with no vase at all.
Photo by Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times (Press on it to enlarge)
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