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Photo by the amazing Devon Caranicas

just hug

In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard. 
-Zooey Deschanel

(both via i just might)

pop-up flower shop at Anthropologie!

Exciting news! My amazing friend Erin will be having a pop-up flower shop at the Anthropologie in Chelsea starting this Saturday! 

To indulge yourself with the happiness that flowers bring (which I highly recommend,) stop by Anthropologie in Chelsea Market on Saturdays or the Brooklyn Flea on Sundays to see her beautiful, earthy arrangements. I am so proud!
(Images via Erin Ostreicher Floral Design)

Stellar Person: Erin Ostreicher, Floral Designer

Erin Ostreicher graduated Skidmore College in 2007 with a degree in English and studio art.  After spending a year working at a small publishing house in Burlington,Vermont, Erin left publishing to pursue a combination of her greatest passions: flowers and art.  She spent a season working on an organic flower farm in Vermont before returning to her hometown of Westport, Connecticut to attend an intensive floral design program at the New York Botanical Gardens.  Since receiving her certificate in floral design, she has worked at various florists while making a name for herself in the business as an independent floral designer.  Her latest venture is the construction of an intensive organic garden in her yard that will yield several varieties of flowers for her to use in her arrangements and sell as bouquets at the Westport Farmers Market which begins on May 26th.  Although she is still waiting for her seeds to flower, I took a trip to Westport to see the birth of her garden and discuss how she has admirably made her passions her life.

What is your floral philosophy? 

I’m still figuring it out but I think what excites me the most is to create pieces that look both like they’re natural and sort of growing in the container and sort of free and wild but then also have some element to it that makes it look like it’s also its own form of art.  So, combining the two and trying to stay away from conventional, boring designs.