Your taste in colors and flower selection is beyond. How do you cultivate your aesthetic, and push yourself to stay creative?
I really like the challenge of utilizing the season and my surroundings to pull together new combinations and color palettes. I think pushing yourself to think differently and not relying on crutch varieties and allowing to see flowers with new eyes helps so much!
After working so hard, what are the big pay-off moments that make it all worth it?
Honestly eating food at the end of a long work day and really enjoying a meal and laughing about the day is the best reward. And whatever it is, it must have cheese.
Have there been any surprises along the way in business that you maybe weren’t expecting?
Yes! The job has very little to do with actual flower arranging and much more to do with strategy, planning, numbers, and anxiety.
What are a few of your greatest sources of inspiration?
I pull a lot of my color palette ideas from a flower or leaf that nature has had it’s way with so there are subtleties in the transitions. I love to challenge myself to recreate that palette with an arrangement as a whole.
Could you share with us a couple of hurdles you’ve overcome as you chase your dreams?
So many lessons learned in almost 10 years of doing this. But approach business with more practicality and not inserting emotion into it! Good life lessons for all.
You have a beautiful daughter named Maci. What do you hope she learns as she watches you create with Tinge?
I just want her to feel inspired to do what makes her happy and fulfilled whatever that is. I love that sense of smell has the ability to connect itself to memory and I hope the scents of certain flowers help her remember the special bond we have now that she’s so little!
As a working mother, what are a few things you do that help you to juggle home life and work life?
I say no a lot and prioritize what’s important and works for me. I love my time at home, and I love being elbows deep in flowers. I take the time to appreciate both and really soak it in, and don’t overlap the two worlds very often.
We love hearing people talk about their dreams. What are yours, big or small?
Been following @designmom’s Instagram of her house renovation in the French countryside, and I’m obsessed. Would love to live abroad at some point in my life and be immersed in a different world.