Color! Using Colorful Foliage Plants in Your Garden – Just Say No to Green!

Join The Greenery plant experts - Tim Drake & Melissa Brock for a presentation that includes a variety of all-season plants - both shrubs and perennials - that provide color with their colorful foliage. The focus will be on how these plants are used in the landscape and how to care for them. 

Discussion will include growth and mature sizes, sun/shade, irrigation needs, cold/heat tolerance, and deer tolerance.  The Greenery will have the usual plant giveaways.  Time will be allotted for any general landscape questions.  

There will be live plants, a plant list, and a few giveaways at the end of the presentation.  Residents must be present to win! 

Date:         Thursday, April 25th 
Time:         1pm - 2pm 
Location:   Indigo Hall 

A RSVP is required below to attend, and the seminar is limited to 120 residents.  

 If seminar is filled, you can be waitlisted when you RSVP to the event.  You will see this message - Sorry, the maximum total number of attendees for the event is 120. Do you want to proceed anyway?  If you proceed, then you will be waitlisted for the event.

You can also email Dodi Heywood at [email protected] and she will add you to the waitlist.  If you are on the waitlist and a spot becomes available, you will be notified via email.

We have scheduled another knife sharpening event at Indigo Hall Pavilion on Friday, May 3rd.  
    
You can come and drop off your items to Tom Stevens from 8:30am till 10:30am that day. He will take your cell phone # and text you when your items are sharpened so you can return to pick them up.  There is NO LIMIT of items per person.  Please drop off as early as possible in the morning.

A RSVP is required to bring your items and is limited to 25 residents.  Please RSVP by Thursday, May 2nd.  You can pay by cash, check or credit card.        

If event is filled, you can be waitlisted when you RSVP to the event.  You will see this message - Sorry, the maximum total number attendees for the event is 25. Do you want to proceed anyway?  If you proceed, then you will be waitlisted for the event.

You can also email Dodi Heywood at [email protected] and she will add you to the waitlist.  If you are on the waitlist and a spot becomes available, you will be notified via email.  

Sharp knives make for a happier, more joyful, kitchen experience. And dull edges are dangerous, - you have to work too hard to cut, and may slip - ouch!  So, we want you to have happy, sharper edges.  

What items are sharpened:
Knives, scissors (both household/industrial and stylist/groomers shears), and garden implements. (clippers, loppers, etc.)  

Pricing:
Pricing is variable as Tom will need to view the items. Please come prepared to prepay so Tom can leave your items at Security if you can't return before he leaves for the day.  

Kitchen knives tend to average about $15 each, though it varies with length, condition of edge, broken points, etc.

Garden clippers generally $10, loppers likely $20, again all dependent upon condition of edge, length, etc.

Household scissors approx. $15
stylist/grooming shears (need to take home to sharpen and will return) $35.

Bring your items and he will assess them. 

Tom's background information:
Tom has been hand sharpening his own, and family/friend's, knives since he was 13 years old. He was really quite good at it, until he advanced to a nifty belt sharpening system.  He has been doing Farmers Markets locally since last summer and getting great results, and many repeat customers.

Some of you may have encountered him at Hilton Head Farmers Market on Tuesdays (Honey Horn), Bluffton Farmers Market on Thursdays, or Port Royal on Saturdays.

Do you want the convenience of having a manicure, pedicure or even a foot massage at Indigo Hall? 

If you do, then enjoy some self-pampering with Ahhmazing Touch Traveling Nail Services on Friday, May 3rd.  

When RSVPing, please write in the service you want in the attendee names/another note box.  There is one service per hour.  

Appointments can be made for May 3rd at this time below by RSVPing.  If an appointment time is filled, you can be waitlisted when you RSVP. You will see this message - Sorry, the maximum total number attendees for the event  is 1.  Do you want to proceed anyway?  If you proceed, then you will be waitlisted for that time.    

Thanks to resident Gerard Doyle for recommending this service for the community.  Listed below are the services provided.  Payment for services is by cash or check.  All implements used are disposable.  You may bring your favorite nail polish or choose a color that LaToya brings.  

AHHMAZING TOUCH - Traveling Nail Services by LaToya Johnson
Basic Manicures: $30
Nails are trimmed, filed, and shaped and then placed into a soak.  Once removed from the soak, the cuticles are pushed back, buffed, and excess dead cuticle is removed.  Once all the maintenance has been completed, the hands and lower arms are then massaged briefly and topped off with a hot scented towel.  The manicure is completed with your choice of polish or shiny buff.

Gel/Shellac/No-Chip Manicure: (waterless) $40
Nails are trimmed, filed, and shaped then a cuticle solvent is placed on, and cuticles are pushed back and buffed to remove excess cuticle.  Once that is completed, the nails are buffed to help the gel adhere better to the nails and then cleaned with polish remover. Ph bond is applied to dehydrate the nail plates for proper adhesion.  You are then ready to begin the base coat of the gel by placing under light for recommended time by applying two to three coats of the color that was selected.  Each coat will be cured for recommended time and a topcoat to seal the manicure. Once completed, the hand and arms are briefly massaged and topped off with a scented hot towel.

Basic Pedicure:  $40
Service begins with a warm softening foot soak, then the nails are trimmed, shaped, and buffed. The cuticles are pushed back, buffed, and trimmed if needed/wanted. Next, the soles of the feet are then buffed lightly to help smooth the calluses.  Lower legs and feet are exfoliated with a homemade salt/sugar scrub and then moisturized and topped off with a hot scented towel. 
Pedicure is completed with or without polish/gel.  *There will be a $15 add on if you want gel.         

Ahhmazing Touch Foot Therapy:  $50
This service is for those who are in need of a relaxing, meaningful, therapeutic foot massage. The service begins with a warm scented foot soak then the lower leg and feet are exfoliated with a scented salt/sugar scrub and rinsed.  Then each foot is massaged for the 30 minutes.

LaToya Johnson is a Bluffton, S.C. native, whom in the year 2000, became a licensed Nail Technician. Later in 2011, while attending TCL (Technical College of the Lowcountry), she obtained an associate degree in Applied Sciences Cosmetology which in turn led her to passing the State Board to become a Registered Cosmetologist.

Ever since then, LaToya has become a hot commodity within the surrounding communities, such as Hampton Lakes. She is one of the most sought-after technicians in the Lowcountry. As Lead Nail Tech, she has worked at some of the most prestigious salons and spas in the area, including that of Faces Day Spa. Clients have returned to LaToya frequently, giving her rave reviews, and thus garnering her the nickname, “Ahhmazing Hands."

When not attending to, or pleasing her vast array of clients, you can find LaToya either reading a novel by one of her favorite authors, cooking for her family, or attending her children’s sporting events.

With this being said and done, there’s nothing left to do but to make LaToya, YOUR manicurist!!!