Spring brings fresh, bright colors, clean cuts, and eye-catching prints. Get a sneak peek at our latest photoshoot and some new designs that will be released over the next six months… (more…)

Cozy blankets, steaming mugs of apple cider, and crisp fall weather made our most recent photoshoot the perfect transition into cooler temperatures and warmer threads. Get inspired with these behind-the-scenes peeks!  (more…)

Get a behind-the-scenes peek at our latest photoshoot! Despite getting rained out midway through, we made the most of it and got some pretty stunning shots between rain showers. Keep an eye on the site…many of these threads will be arriving soon! (more…)

Are you looking for how to build an indoor fort? And even better, a hippie bohemian fort? With lots of boho hippie vibes like hippie wall hangings & cool tapestries, fairy lights, incense, patchouli and feathers? Well, we’ve all built a fort at some point in our lives (at least I hope so!) but sometimes it’s nice to think about the finer details that could make your bohemian fort even better. We recently built two indoor bohemian tents for our photoshoots and with a little planning time, ended up with some really unique fort spaces. Let us show you how to build an indoor fort, Soul Flower Hippie Boho Style!

How to Build an Indoor Fort: Prop List

I grew up antiquing with my parents, I really hated it as a teen, but now I am in LOVE, and many of the items on set came from my collection, things I’ve picked thrifting, garage sale-ing, and antiquing as an adult. Some of the things were just from around Soul Flower (we are lucky and have a pretty rad working environment). Just a few things from a craft store, I really had my heart set on those little pom-pom tassels for the kids fort and knew that I wanted to incorporate yarn for the romantic fort.

Here are a few components you will need to build your fort:

1. A Frame – this can be large, like  the frame of a easy up tent or use tent poles. Or even a few chairs and a couch could be a frame if you plan to make your fort a little more temporary!
2. Cool Tapestries for the walls
3. Hippie Tapestries for the floors
4. Pillows – we made our own out of old Soul Flower T-Shirt designs!
5. Fairy Lights
6. Clothespins
7. Rope or Twine
8. Fun Decor Extras (pom poms, yarn, tassels, feathers)
9. More Hippy Tapestries (at Soul Flower, our tapestries give you an amazing way to brighten your space and how you use your tapestry is only as limited as your imagination!)

How to Build an Indoor Fort: Assembly

Our boho tent was a team effort really. When we were planning the theme for our catalog I instantly had visions popping in my brain and everyone had a shared vibe that we wanted to capture, so that certainly helped.  So the vision, props, textures, all the little things were a cinch, actually making a sturdy fort frame had to be drawn out. We ended up using ropes and pvc pipe but another great idea was to use the frame of a tent or tent poles. Once the basic frames were set up, we assembled the fort! If you want to know how to build an indoor fort, the keay is really just about layering on the tapestries, fabrics, enough blankets, whatever you have to create the space! I really enjoyed getting my co-workers help and thoughts, but indeed adored staying late in the empty warehouse and nit-picking the set, with no phone calls, emails, etc. to disturb me!

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Layers are very important in our fort to help get the gypsy vibes. So be sure to have lots of tapestries for the floors, walls and backdrop.

How to Build an Indoor Fort: Dreamy Romantic Fort

We wanted a very dreamy, soft, cloud 9 kind of feel. We pulled this off by using neutral colors, layers of tans, whites, golds and creams. Tulle fabric does the trick, especially layered with the bright funky tapestries! The lights, big nests of Christmas lights made the set enchanting, these are a must: candles, Christmas lights, lamps, or any intimate lighting you can find will set the mood for sure!

How to Build an Indoor Fort: Kids Boho Tent for Kids

For our kids boho tent, the most important part was having interactive options, something to keep the kids occupied and entertained. In our boho tent we featured a chalk board, record player and unique kid friendly musical instruments. I would recommend having a theme, ours was clearly music, and this made it simple to gather items for the tots to explore.

Another fun thing we did was make a few small pillows using old Soul Flower T-Shirts. Our designs are perfect for kids, espeeically with messages about loving the earth and spreading a positive vibe!

We hope you enjoy seeing how to build an indoor fort, especially a one-of-a-kind boho hippie style fort. They were so fun and great to photograph in, we even kept them set up for a long time as a reading nook in our warehouse. Peace, Love and Forts Buds!

There’s a common Shakespeare quote that goes, “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” Best friends, Siera (Soul Flower owners Mike & Peggy’s daughter) and Sophia, who were recently in for a photoshoot, are truly the embodiment of that sentiment. Scroll through these photos to get a feel for their friendship and some sneak peeks at some not-yet-released threads! (more…)

Get inspired by glimpses of our new Spring/Summer threads, our folksy Americana playlist, and behind-the-scenes takes from our recent photoshoot in Minneapolis.  (more…)

This fall the Soul Flower crew traveled to Franconia Sculpture Park to photograph our new line. See what goes on behind the scenes in this video! (more…)

For our most recent photoshoot, we wanted something funky, eclectic, and a little bit weird. Franconia Sculpture Park in Schafer, MN totally fit the bill. Boasting over 100 unique sculptures on 43 acres of gorgeous prairie, the hardest part was narrowing down which sculptures to feature!

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“Franconia has grown from its first year, in 1996, with a negative $15k budget and no payed staff (for 4 years) to 19 years later as a nationally recognized arts organization with a 550k budget…with a staff of six and serving more than 40 artists per year and with education programs that served over 13,000 people annually.”

– John Hock, Founding Member

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“Franconia is unique in America in that it is the great combination of residency, work and exhibition all at one location.” -Hock

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“The artists work hard and long every day they are in residence. Typically they work 12 hours a day on the sculpture that they are producing.” -Hock

“All of our events are exciting. Whether it be an iron pour, a Kids Make sculpture class, our rural arts program for under-served youth, or our music in the park concert series. Last year we did a Hey Shakespeare performance of the Tempest for three nights running. The performance used the entire park as the set in stage for the play. It was really exciting.” -Hock

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To plan your own visit to Franconia Sculpture Park, check out their website.

For updates from afar, follow Franconia on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

View the behind the scenes video here. 

We may be a bit biased, but in our opinion one of the best things about getting new kids/baby threads is doing photos shoots with our adorable mini models!  (more…)

Summer is here! That also means it’s time for music festivals, hooping with friends, and cool Summer threads. Get to know Courtney and Lindsey; two talented, free-spirited, music-loving models that we worked with for our Summer line (coming out soon!) and find out what they love about festival season.
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Between the air purifying plants, eclectic art, and loading dock “happy hours,” you could say this isn’t your typical office environment. (more…)

Meet Allison! She’d the founder of Shred Scarves! They’re a creative use for fabric that would have otherwise been thrown away! Learn more about the woman behind it all and how the shreds came to be in our interview!

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In honor of Earth Day, we decided to take a little break and spend some time picking up trash near the Soul Flower office. It’s amazing how much garbage just a couple people can pick up in only an hour! (more…)

We love our furry friends here at Soul Flower! Read on to learn about the animals that bring out our inner “dorky pet voices.” (not ashamed)  (more…)

Recently, all us buds here at Soul Flower got together, ate some insanely good pizza and talked about the things that make Soul Flower everything that it is to us. We did a bit of serious reflection, and also had quite a lot of laughs, and what came out of it was a list of almost 150 things that Soul Flower represents to us. Which is a lot! So we took that list and began to narrow it down to a few things that are truly at the heart of Soul Flower, and what came out of it was a poem we now embrace as our very own MANIFESTO! (more…)

This year for our spring/summer catalog we were lucky enough to spend our day shooting photos at the enthralling, easy to get “lost” in, Architectural Antiques in NE Minneapolis. Surrounded by streams of colorful light from the various stained glass windows, and an uncountable amount of antique lighting overhead, we wove our way through the aisles taking numerous photos of our upcoming spring line, which is just as enthralling as the antiques surrounding us! (more…)

For Soul Flower’s latest lookbook, Let Life Flow, we had the exciting opportunity to do our photo shoot at Hazel and Moss Yoga Studio and work with the owner, Chelsea, and her friend, Christine, from Meraki Holistic Living, as models. (more…)

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