Blooming Apple Tree
Art with Northern mystique - Every Blooming Apple Tree piece is handcrafted with love in our small studio by the spruce forest in the Finnish countryside by an artist Marjut Tuulia Numminen assisted by her wife Aino Vilpas. In our collection you'll find free-blown and sculpted glass, flame-worked glass, jewellery and paintings. The collection varies seasonally.
Each of our pieces has a story to tell. We have been inspired by roughly beautiful nature, flowing and relaxed lifestyle, joy and happiness and the miracles of life itself. That all and so much more is a paradise for us. Many of our pieces are about or inspired by Nordic Goddesses. We wish you can feel the passionate way of life, appreciation of this old craft but also freshness and novelty in these designs. We want to make sure that our pieces are wonderful, refreshing and long-lasting.
"I feel the ancient fire burning inside of me when I'm creating jewellery, painting new pieces or blowing glass with Aino. For me it's the most natural state of being. My greatest joy is when somebody wonderful - like you - find some of my handmade pieces calling for you and sense that piece is made for you. Maybe you feel the power, light, love, joy or peace in that piece. At that moment I know that I'm succeeded in my mission."
♥︎ Marjut Tuulia Numminen
Blooming Apple Tree is a metaphor for a tree of life with all it's cycles. It's deeply rooted in Mother Earth, standing strong through the seasons. We chose Blooming Apple Tree as our name because it brings to mind happy and wonderfully carefree Finnish summer days when you have nothing but time to relax and do things you love. Amazing scent of apple flowers is a sign of spring turning into summer. Under an apple tree you can have a nice cup of coffee, read a good book or just look as clouds go by in the sky. You know those moments when you have everything you need right there.
When the apples are ready it’s time for harvest. Together we pick up all the apples, slicing, cooking and preserving them different ways. Who could resist home-baked apple pie with vanilla custard? When the autumn comes all the leaves change their colour slowly falling down. Nature is getting ready for winter.
The first frost makes the apple tree branches look like amazing winter wonderland art pieces! In the middle of the winter there is so much snow that the branches bend under it’s weight. It seems like everything is covered by cotton wool. Then the sunlight overcomes the strenght of winter melting down the frost. Soon you can see a hint of green shade. It doesn’t take so long anymore before the apple tree is blooming again!
