Mother Spark’s is Alivia’s great great grandmother. An unseen photo album surfaced in the family and stories turned to faces and in return the push to create a brand and holding space for her own mark. Her family had alway been good at holding onto mementos to pass through hands - her great grandmothers’s locket, a baking book of depression era recipes, a broken and glued back together tea cup from who knows when. These items holding significance even in their tarnished state. All grasping fleeting moments. Florals falling here too. Tending and arranging something beautiful that can only be captured forever in a photo.

Alivia has been in and out of the floral industry for over eight years, beginning at a 1700s creamery-turned-event space in the Hudson Valley, where she showed up one summer looking for a job. From there, she began tending both English - style perennials and thoughtfully selected annual gardens - growing not only flowers but also a small wedding & floral business from the ground up.

In between, she led the creation of a native plant garden at college and taught ecology, guiding high school students in campus gardens at boarding schools in Arizona. Her travels have since focused on natural spaces across the continent and beyond.

Today, she lives in Portland, ME, still exploring the many corners of florals - creating designs and managing for various studios across Maine, the rest of New England, and her home state of New York.