Sugar Tree Company

Hi there, thank you for taking the time to look at my website. My name is Tamara Andersen and I am the owner of Sugar Tree Company as well as its principal designer. Sugar Tree started as a tiny grain of an idea when people would say "Do what you love," or, "If you love what you do, it doesn't feel like work." I graduated as a Graphic Artist from Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta in 1994 and worked in the industry until 2006, when I had my daughter. The whole time I was slogging my way through a 9 to 5 job, I kept thinking that there had to be something I could do (besides being a mom) that I could love. From the time I was a little girl, I was enchanted by flowers. Their smell, their brilliance and most importantly, the way they draw emotions from people. It's amazing what a single rose can do to brighten someones day! After having my daughter, Mira (that's her on the left with a wreath of wildflowers on her head), I decided that I wanted to stay home and enjoy raising my two children. Of course, this left me with a lot of free time on my hands. La Voila, the idea for Sugar Tree was born. I began by offering to do flowers for friends and family, followed by doing some custom orders around Christmas and Easter. I found that time just flew and that I felt happy after an eight hour work day... Maybe I was onto something! Fast forward and I am now the happy owner and designer of my own company. I graduated from Floral Design at ICS with "high honours" and threw myself into my first wedding design a week after graduation. My philosophy is simple: Every person deserves to speak the language of flowers. Whether it is the thrill of imagining your dream bouquet for your wedding or relaying heartfelt sympathy to a loved one in mourning, flowers lift spirits, fire imaginations and make us pause to appreciate the simplicity and purity that nature offers us. I like to think that I combine my natural artistic flair with the principals of design that I was trained in and throw in a dash of understanding (every person has different style!) and end up with a product that is not only superior in quality but also in imagination and flair. By working from my home, I am able to remove the extra expenditures that are usually placed on the consumer shoulders. I will work with every individual to ensure that I have a clear understanding of their vision, their dreams and their budget and meld all three together into something truly fantastic!