Motherhood, Change & Learning to Begin Again | Bloom, Baby, Bloom!
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There was a time when my life in New York looked exactly like what it was supposed to look like.
Work. Bills. Schedules. Nice restaurants squeezed between responsibilities, almost as proof that we still had a life. After becoming a mother, the days moved quickly, but somehow felt flat, efficient, structured, and strangely distant from myself.
I loved my child deeply.
But somewhere along the way, I had stopped blooming.
Bloom Baby Bloom was born from that realization.
Not as a brand decision, but as a life one.
When the life you built no longer fits
After becoming a mother, I felt myself slowly disappear into function.
I wasn’t unhappy, just muted.
New York has a way of doing that. It rewards endurance. It teaches you to keep moving, to keep producing, to keep up. And when you’re raising a child in that rhythm, it’s easy to forget that life can be soft, slow, and expansive too.
So we made a choice that didn’t make sense on paper.
We left.
My partner, our son, and I decided to travel — not as an escape, but as a reset. To let our days stretch again. To experience other cultures. Other tempos. Other ways of being present.
That moment, stepping away from the Western idea that life must always be optimized, is where Printed Echoes Creations truly began.
And Bloom Baby Bloom was one of the very first capsules to emerge from that shift.
Blooming again: as a woman, not just a mother
Bloom Baby Bloom is often seen as a floral spring capsule.
But for me, it represents something much deeper.
It marks the moment when I allowed myself to return — not to who I was before motherhood, but to who I was becoming through it.
For a long time, I felt like I was only a mother.
A role I cherish, but one that doesn’t erase the rest of you. Bloom Baby Bloom came from that quiet reawakening: when ideas started filling my notebooks again, faster than I could execute them. When creativity came back, not loudly but persistently.
It’s a reminder that growth doesn’t cancel softness.
And softness doesn’t cancel strength.
Why these flowers exist
Every element in Bloom Baby Bloom is tied to lived memory, not aesthetics alone.
The hibiscus comes from a plant we had in our apartment, one that bloomed endlessly, no matter the season. A quiet lesson in resilience.
Cherry blossoms carry two homes at once: springtime in New York, especially those brief weeks in Central Park when winter finally loosens its grip and everything feels possible again.
Frangipani takes me back to Southeast Asia, Thailand and Laos, where time moved differently. Where mornings were slow, colors were vivid, and life felt lighter without being shallow.
And the pop of iridescent color?
That’s intentional too.
Because being soft doesn’t mean being muted.
And growth doesn’t have to be beige.
There’s a touch of the 70s in Bloom Baby Bloom — curves, warmth, freedom — because joy can be expressive without being loud.
A slower way of living
Bloom Baby Bloom isn’t about decorating your home for spring.
It’s about marking transitions, the quiet ones we don’t always celebrate:
- becoming a parent
- leaving a chapter behind
- starting again, without needing permission
That’s why this capsule extends beyond wall art into everyday objects:
mugs for slow mornings, wearable pieces that feel lived-in rather than styled.
They’re designed for people who are changing, even if no one else notices yet.
If you’re drawn to meaningful gestures over performative ones, you may also resonate with pieces like our What If I Love You card, our Wedding & Vows cards — all created for love that doesn’t wait for a calendar date.
Blooming is not a season, it’s a practice
Bloom Baby Bloom was created during a season of transformation, but it was never meant to stay there.
It’s an evergreen reminder that life unfolds in cycles.
That rebirth doesn’t always look dramatic.
And that sometimes, beginning again simply means allowing yourself to feel whole.
If you’d like to explore the pieces born from this chapter, you can visit the Bloom Baby Bloom collection here.
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