Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Sarah Hausdoerffer. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Sarah, appreciate you joining us today. Let’s jump right into how you came up with the idea?

I started out as an artist 16 years ago and decided to pursue this passion and turn it into a career. I wanted to focus my first career on high end paint finishes and murals. At first, I was not sure this was going to work, so I ventured to a trade school and went for 2 weeks and learned the basics of faux finishing. Fortunately I was able to develop some very important relationships through the years with contractors and designers. As my career progressed, I was able to do work in NYC, wyoming, oregon and beyond. Eventually, the paint fumes were bothering me, but it took me a long time to figure out what to do next, as I had never worked for anyone but myself! I decided that my love of plants and flowers was strong enough to start looking into a career in that, and realized that flower arranging could actually be a form of art. In my most successful year yet, I took a risk and left for 3 weeks and went to a floral design school in Portland. I had no idea how to do any sort of flower arrangement, and every night after the school I would study each flower and plant and learn the names of each. I think that drive helped me understand and appreciate the art of it all. At the same time, our local flower shop was for sale, and during this whole process I was purchasing the flower shop. This was not easy and was all time consuming. but as soon as I returned from the school, I was thrown into an entire flower shop/plant shop and had no idea what I was doing! Lots of trial and error, late nights, dedication, long hours and support helped me create what is now Bramble and Bloom.

Sarah, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

We focus more on high end floral design and larger scale weddings and events. We also have a small plant shop that takes custom orders and provides fresh flowers every week in the heart of the mountains. We try to get more unique variety of flowers and arrange them with an artistic approach. We are most proud of a project we did a few months ago, where we traveled to Aspen during the food and wine festival and did an event for Hendricks Gin. We were able to do a huge event, with the help of my identical twin sister! The event was at the Aspen art museum, and then also was at a unique cocktail bar called Hooch.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

I bought the flower shop in November 2019, and 4 months later covid hit us all. I was devastated, but somehow with all of the local support we were able to survive covid. I remember texting photos of plants for people and we would leave them out front of our shop so we would have no contact. It was hard to know at the time if we were people were going to have weddings, and a lot were cancelled.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

Our most recent huge floral project, we had taken on the aspen food and wine festival flowers for Hendricks Gin. When I first took the job, I knew it would be in June so the drive from Crested Butte to Aspen was supposed to be just over a pass. When we got closer to the event, we realized that the pass was closed due to a mudslide. We had to re-route to a 4 hour drive, with 2 vans packed with flowers and one car. On our way over Independence pass, I got a call that one of the vans (with the most flowers of course) it had broken down. We were only about an hour away from Aspen, and had to turn around and hurry over to the uhaul place (with an hour to get there) and rent a uhaul. Keep in mind this was 7:00 at night and we needed to start the event at 6 am that next morning. We luckily go to the uhaul in time and had to leave the broken down van at the mechanic, unload and entire van of flowers and load them into the uhaul. Needless to say, I was worried the whole time about the flowers quality, but luckily it was a crisp colorado day. We got to the condo by 10 pm, and had to unload all the flowers up 3 flights of stairs into the condo, the next day was a 16 hour day non-stop..Talk about resilience. !

Contact Info:

• Website: www.brambleandbloomfloral.com
• Instagram: @brambleandbloomfloral

Image Credits
Jasondaris