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Inspiration

April 21, 2021 Tina Ahlberg
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How do we get inspiration?

We all need to keep learning, at work & in life. We are never finished. It is so easy to stick with what we know, what is comfortable. In our own everyday lives, at a workplace. It is not everyone who jumps on a chance, who challenge herself to what is unknown. I have always felt that life is a journey that we can form to our liking, it might be a bumpy ride doing it, but happiness takes work. I vote for happiness. Working with flowers has been my passion from a very early age. As a 13 year old I heard a radio interview with a florist who just received her journeyman certificate. It inspired me. Go and get it.

 

As an intern at an established florist in Stockholm my first year at the Floral design school, I had a mentor who pushed me further into the idea of making this my future profession. To work with someone with a lifelong experience was very inspiring. To get to learn the do’s and don’t. To dare to learn new tricks. I kept mentors in my life.

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We should never stop learning. We need to push ourself to go further, to find new ways, to follow trends and to learn and be inspired from other people around us. At work, and in our everyday lives. Find a teacher. Find a mentor. Get inspired.

I hope to hold workshops that might inspire someone else. If someone learns how to make something beautiful out of flowers, wouldn’t that make your day? Get someone inspired to go out in their garden and bring in the spring & summer to their table. To create beauty. I have just started to freelance. To work up close with another very talented designer, to learn her ways, to discuss methods & technique again inspires me. I am so happy I took these steps that will keep me on my toes, I will learn & get new inspiration!

Inspire. Breath. Learn. Grow.

 

The definition of Inspiration: 

a :divine influence or action on a person believed to qualify him or her to receive and communicate sacred revelation

b: the action or power of moving the intellect or emotions

c: the act of influencing or suggesting opinions

 

 

In Deep thoughts, Floral Design Tags inspire, mentor, Weddings, News
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Antiquing in Sweden

February 9, 2021 Jessica Gordon Ryan
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Are we there yet?

Back in the mid 70s to early 80s my family spent our vacations traveling through Sweden down south to a rental house on the west or east coast, or in Skåne, the most southern county of Sweden. We drove for hours (at that time with no seat belts in the backseat and no AC) through the country passing fields of rapeseed, dense green forests and clear lakes.

We stopped for gas, ice cream and lunch that always ended up being grilled hotdogs and French fries, the best treat you could ever get!

And we stopped at Antique stores. Millions of them.

My mom had taken up the innocent interest in glass. What started with a collection of old pressed salt cellars, ended up as a lifelong passion for antiques, and landed her a job at Stockholms Auktionsverk as a glass expert.

We HATED the stops along the way to our vacation house. It was the time when many roads still were local winding roads out in nowhere, before the faster modern highways got you from point A to point B faster. We rolled our eyes every time we had to stop AGAIN. My sister and I stayed in the hot car reading comics, or followed her inside to browse to get the time to go faster and to stretch our legs. How could you be interested in all that old stuff? 

Fast forwarding to today.

Both my sister Annika and I have somehow gotten this bug that makes us both wanting to stop along the road to check out antique stores. Now our families are rolling their eyes in the car every time we scream “No, turn around, let’s check out that antique store we just drove by!”

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I have a thing for old stuff. My home is filled with old & new, antique, vintage and Mid Century Modern. I love antiquing, browsing for containers, vases, paintings and furniture. Old tools. Cast iron fences or urns. Steampunk. Part of my work here at Floral Surroundings will be to offer unique one of a kind containers to my clients homes or events. Colored depression glass or beautiful handmade pottery from the 30s to the 50s. Well known artists/ factories or just unique because of their shape and beauty. Check out my page HOME & PATIO.

 

 

 

 

In Home & Patio, Weddings, Events, Floral Design Tags Home & Patio, Floral Design, Freelance Floral Designer, Weddings, Wedding Flowes, Occasion Flowers, Sweden
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