Something Blue

Something Blue Wedding florist.

The most potent antidote for sorrow isn't about forcing happiness upon someone. It's not about pushing them to move forw...
08/29/2024

The most potent antidote for sorrow isn't about forcing happiness upon someone. It's not about pushing them to move forward, telling them to get over it, or comparing their situation to worse scenarios. Instead, what a grieving heart truly craves is gentleness, empathy, warmth, connection, and companionship. Sit beside them in their pain, allowing them to release their tears without any judgment. Avoid the urge to swiftly erase their sorrow. They need to navigate through it at their own pace. This is love – setting aside assumptions and offering such kindness that we are invited into their darkest moments. Being a beacon of light for someone is a privilege. Love serves as the ultimate remedy for sadness. It always comes back to love.

Grief Untamed: A how to guide for grief healing
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Grief is love with no place to go and I will teach you my tools for how to: soothe, ease, honor, and heal your grief. I’m here to teach you that you can lean into your grief, learn ways to carry the heaviness of it, and find healthy ways to build you...

Dear ones, Do you find yourself struggling this time of year? I've been there. I'm holding your hand from afar and I wan...
05/29/2024

Dear ones,
Do you find yourself struggling this time of year? I've been there. I'm holding your hand from afar and I want you to know that help is out there. Sometimes, simply having someone to talk to each day and release your feelings to is so, so helpful and comforting.
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Heal through writing" Pen Pal course is something I started doing a few years ago when I became a Certified Grief Support Specialist and Spiritual Mentor.
It's a month long-7 days a week support via email.
If you are looking for one-on-one daily support ....keep reading.

I talk to people about all types of grief: death, divorce, loss of pet, loss of partner, loss of job, life changes, health challenges, parenting struggles, and more. I'm here to hold your hand, gift you my professional guidance and personal experience, and wrap you in warmth and hope each day. This is not a replacement for therapy but is a unique, safe, and simple way to get your hand held through a hard time in your life. I have talked to thousands of women and men all over the globe and helped walk them through difficult struggles in their lives.
I am a certified coach who is here to help you sort through your struggles, make a plan, and live forward with grace. I will never push my personal beliefs or truths onto you. I will lovingly hold your hand while you find your own. My highly intuitive nature knows how to cater my loving guidance and teachings specifically to you and your personality and beliefs.
Many people do not want to chat over Zoom and in person support groups can leave many feeling more drained and tired. Email is a wonderful, cozy, quiet place to lay down your thoughts and be connected to someone who cares. We carry our phones with us everywhere we go which means you can write to me from anywhere: home, work, out on a walk….anywhere and anytime you need to. If you don't like typing...you can use voice-to-text from your phone, laptop, iPad/Kindle.

I am both: professional and human being who has experienced life’s grief. And this truly matters because it means we can connect at a heart level. I learned this from a prior pastor who taught me how to support grieving hearts. He learned through many decades (and personal experience with grief) that people truly need a counselor who they know has walked a similar grief road and has the tools to help others through. Without both we can feel alone and separated.
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Reviews of my work & writing:
“Cannot thank you enough, Nik...you are my new lifeline in a time when I find myself doubting my strength to carry the load.... it just becomes so exhausting, in a way I never knew existed."
"Nik, You are an inspiration, a breath of whispered truth, a broken person trying to heal, yet you still have the strength to want to reach out and help others, you are a credit to yourself, your family, and all your friends. I take my hat off to you. Bless you through and through."
"Dear Nik,
When the darkness consumed me, I couldn’t understand why. I prayed to God for help. I prayed for him to send help. He didn’t - except that you appeared in my FB newsfeed. To this day, I cannot tell you how. You brought me back to what I knew - nature heals, writing heals. Nothing else was helping.
Then you experienced a return to your faith, my faith I thought had failed me. I was angry. I stopped getting on FB, but I never stopped hearing your words resounding in the quiet corners of my mind. Slowly, almost against my will, I returned to your posts and faith has begun to creep back into my heart. I am a work in progress, a soul still fighting a darkness I don’t understand, but you have given me hope."

"I am a very loving person. But your writing challenges me on a new level. Wow! I adore you!!"

"Nik, I thank you for your passion and love. Your ability to share your personal experiences to me to my friends and family. You’ve uplifted me when I needed it the most. You have been my example of . You’re example of Christ like love, shows through your writing.... thank you FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!"

"Hello Nicole,
Certainly we don’t know one another, yet I feel like I know you.
I admire the strength and courage you put forth in every word that you write. I admire the dedication and effort you put forth to help others. I admire the conviction you exhibit toward your cause... helping others.
You are truly a gift. Thank you for putting yourself out there as a beacon of light... of hope... of strength... to others. People that you will never know and faces that you will never see are being helped every day by your words.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Sending love and great big hugs from Buffalo, NY."
"What you're doing is really so wonderful and helping so many hurting people."
"You truly are so awesome. I'm so glad I stumble upon your profile. You have helped me so much in these past few months of grieving."
"I want you to know that I am beyond grateful for meeting you even if just in cyberspace as your positive attitude and your light shine so brightly."


Email me if interested in details of my "Heal through Writing" Pen Pal program: [email protected]

At a time when prices are rising everywhere….I have significantly lowered mine so that more people have access to the help, compassion, and support they need and deserve.
$50/month for daily email correspondence.
*ask about discount if you sign up for November & December.
*No one will be turned away if you cannot afford to pay. Write to me and we will work something out.


Remember, there is a beautiful light inside of you that can never be bent, bruised, or shattered.
YOU ARE LOVED.

Love always, Nik Bonkoski

-Writer, Grief Support Specialist, Spiritual Mentor
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https://www.nikbonkoski.com/grief

my email: [email protected]

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07/08/2022

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Hello Something Blue followers, I have closed down Something Blue Design. Something Blue has been a piece of my heart fo...
06/03/2018

Hello Something Blue followers,

I have closed down Something Blue Design.

Something Blue has been a piece of my heart for 12 years. For 12 years I placed a piece of my heart into your hands via my self-taught, creative, and fresh floral designs. 💐

I've tried revamping my business in my mind and heart. I've tried picking up my floral sheers again and again but each time it feels wrong. I have to now lovingly pack away those shears and pick up my pen to write. I was a florist and now became the writer I have secretly felt called to be since I was 12-years old. We all have different paths in life. This business was one of my paths and my writing is my full and whole purpose.

This business brought me so much joy for so many years. It was my passion but it is no longer my purpose. Often in life it is hard to let go of things but it is within the letting go that we find our next path and our internal purpose. It takes patience, reflection, and fierce self-honesty to tell yourself that something isn't right for your life anymore. This business isn't on my path anymore. I am eternally grateful for all of the joy it brought me and hopefuly you for so many years.

I have books and books of the flowers I created for this business. They bring me such fond memories, happiness, and feelings of love. ❤️

Thank you to every bride and groom that chose me to create and design their florals, decorate their receptions, and run around their outdoor receptions with my clipboard keeping everything on a timeline. I had a blast. It was an amazing ride and I learned so much about myself, about my community, about my creative heart, and someday maybe I will teach others about wedding floral design and about how to start your own business from your laundry room just like I did.🌸💐🌷🌹🌼

I started this business in June 2006 and it grew and grew from there. I did weddings in Red Wing, Minneapolis, Rochester, and beyond.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Maybe now I will be the girl who someone else delivers flowers to. Maybe now I can fully set my heart free to write and help others in the world who are suffering. 🦋

I will never forget all your bright and beautiful faces on your weddings days. I will always keep all the loving and kind messages you mailed me, emailed me, and messaged me after your wedding days to thank me for my hard work and creativity. I did floral and design work for well over 600 weddings. I was a coordinator at over 100 events. What a ride!!

So many people don't understand the work and hours that go into wedding floral design. Flowers would arrive on truck to my house at 6:00am from wholesaler. I would load them into my laundry room workspace (that's right...I never rented or bought a studio. My thrifty heart always thought it was good enough to work from home) and recut them and place in fresh water. Hydrate for hours. Then the real work and fun would begin. I would start your flowers in the early afternoon and work sometimes until 3 or 4:00am until they were all done. I would sometimes only get an hour of sleep before I had to be up to put final details on bouquets, load my van, and head off to your venue. When Saturday night would roll around I would fall in a heap on my couch...pure creative exhaustion but I would have the biggest smile on my face. I was always so proud of myself for my hard work. I never had an assistant besides a girlfriend who sometimes helped me set up decorations and my late husband who would load my van. I worked through frustration, tears, rose thorn cuts to my fingers, and tired nights while my babies slept in their swing next to me creating flowers into the night. I put my whole heart into everything that I did and I did it because I loved it so very much. Do I still believe I’m a fantastic florist? Yes!! And I’ve been decorating since I was a young girl. Organizing is in my DNA but now I organize other things like my kids homeschool group, my grief group, and more. 🌻

Maybe someday I will host online or in person floral design classes. I will teach others how to create beautiful natural art. I have a wealth of floral and design knowledge and I won’t let it go to waste. I will find new and fresh ways to share my talent and what I know. 💐

Please do not be sad for me that I closed this business. I have not shed tears over it or worried about it. It is what is right for my life. It is time. My heart is free. I am happy. My soul is full of joy that I can put a piece of my life to rest.....a piece of my life that really died the day that my husband did but I haven't been able to admit that to myself until recently. I had to heal first. I had to grieve and put back together my life. Be happy and joyful for me that I have found my one true purpose in life via my writing.

There are so many other amazing florists out there. I am always amazed at the creativity that exists in the world. I am only now choosing to fuel my own inspired creativity into another source.

I will keep the memories.

I will remember forever your kind words and I honestly can remember each bridal meeting, every word you said about exact colors of ribbon and flower. I remember all the details. All the design sheets. If I see you in person I can literally remember the bouquet I designed especially for you, the button I attached to the ribbon as a secret gift, the table decor, and everything down to the last pin. I remember it all. It brings a huge smile to my face.

What is so beautiful to me is that there in now an entire story with my little business. 12 years of self-taught hard work, sweat, and tears. There is an entire story to someday write about how I ever became a wedding florist/decorator/coordinator. How I taught myself everything down to every last business detail. I never took a class, workshop, or other. Everything I created and did was from my own imagination, hard work, and grit. No one taught me how to coordinate a 200-300 guest wedding outdoors and organize the music, food, guests, and beyond. I taught myself that and you all believed in me. It's proof that self-education is so very valuable and beyond possible. You want to be something? Go be it. Don't let others tell you that you can't. Will you have to work harder than the rest? Yes. But if you really want it ...you will do it. But also remember to be radically honest with yourself when you feel a gut feeling that this creative avenue is done for you. Don't be afriad to close it down, box it up, and move forward. I’m going out on top with love and endless gratitude. Not because I don’t feel successful or good enough but because I feel called to do something else.

I even made it into Minnesota Bride Magazine a few years back and I remember buying the fresh copy at Target and thinking if this is as far as I ever got with my creativity? I would be content and happy. And now my writing has made it into a newspaper all the way in Australia. The universe works in wild and mysterious ways.

I will keep all the learning and the growth.

I will say goodbye in pure and radical love.

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If you want to follow my new writing adventures that would be wonderful.

www.nikbonkoski.com

Nik Bonkoski is a Christian Spiritual Mentor, Writer, and Grief Support Specialist.

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A new Red Wing business is aiming to help shoppers with a formal dress code to follow.P.S. I Love U, a formal wear boutique, opened in August in the historic pottery district on Old West Main Street.Store manager Cassidy Smith said the idea came from her recent wedding and two younger sisters' homec...

09/15/2017

We are constantly scrolling through our Instagram feed to keep up with the goings-on in the bridal community around town (and around the world!). This week we are including some new names, old favorites and as usual, lots of local talent!

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We are constantly scrolling through our Instagram feed to keep up with the goings-on in the bridal community around town (and around the world!). This week we are including some new names, old favorites and as usual, lots of local talent!

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