How are you generally known as?
Jacqueline.
Have you got other first names?
No, my parents thought one was more then sufficient.
Surname?
Boerma.
Your date of birth?
09-09-1964.
What is your e-mail address?
Jacqueline@boerma.nl, you can also find me on Facebook. Here you can also find more of my photos.
Jacqueline.
Have you got other first names?
No, my parents thought one was more then sufficient.
Surname?
Boerma.
Your date of birth?
09-09-1964.
What is your e-mail address?
Jacqueline@boerma.nl, you can also find me on Facebook. Here you can also find more of my photos.
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What is your job position and what do you do ?
This is a difficult question. I was a help in the classroom and the kitchen, then a teacher, then office manger. Lately, I have also became the teaching staff co-ordinator. A rather vague work description. It is everything and anything. For example, I am responsible for compiling study notes and information,setting them on paper in both English and Dutch.
At the Boerma Instituut, there have been a recent addition, our little shop where a whole selection of books on floristry ranging from condolence, Christmas to wedding floral works, such as 'Arrangements' by Wim Hazelaar and 'Two Faces of Floral Design' from Gregor Lersch & Klaus Wagner, both incredible books: as well as floristry materials such as wires, tapes, caoutchouc and Oasis can be bought.
I am the buyer and I get a real kick out of finding another great book, a pair of new design shears or the latest materials to add to the stock.
I also collect and make the photos and assemble the OHPs (overhead sheets) used in the theory and reference books of the school.
It is also my job to arrange and regulate the boarding arrangements of our overseas students. Once in a while I still teach, mainly to the Advanced and Master Courses.
Last but not least: I do the contacts with Boerma Instituut Japan.
This is a difficult question. I was a help in the classroom and the kitchen, then a teacher, then office manger. Lately, I have also became the teaching staff co-ordinator. A rather vague work description. It is everything and anything. For example, I am responsible for compiling study notes and information,setting them on paper in both English and Dutch.
At the Boerma Instituut, there have been a recent addition, our little shop where a whole selection of books on floristry ranging from condolence, Christmas to wedding floral works, such as 'Arrangements' by Wim Hazelaar and 'Two Faces of Floral Design' from Gregor Lersch & Klaus Wagner, both incredible books: as well as floristry materials such as wires, tapes, caoutchouc and Oasis can be bought.
I am the buyer and I get a real kick out of finding another great book, a pair of new design shears or the latest materials to add to the stock.
I also collect and make the photos and assemble the OHPs (overhead sheets) used in the theory and reference books of the school.
It is also my job to arrange and regulate the boarding arrangements of our overseas students. Once in a while I still teach, mainly to the Advanced and Master Courses.
Last but not least: I do the contacts with Boerma Instituut Japan.
How long have you been involved in floristry?
Since 1981. I started as the friday girl, helping behind the bar, the kitchen and helping in the classroom.
At that time I obtained my Florist & Business Diplomas. It was purely by accident that I landed up in the front of the class as a teacher. My father was delayed on a business trip in America, and it was too late to find a eplacement teacher. So I there I was, teaching in place of my father...
But it all started way before that: when I was a toddler of 3, I was allowed to so-called 'make' arrangements in the florist shop of my father and grandfather in Heerlen. Just to keep me occupied, I suppose.
These were then put on display and sold. Years later,
I found out it was my aunt who would take them home.
Now, my youngest son Axel is making arrangements from scraps he finds lying around at Boerma Instituut. He enjoys doing it just as I did.
Later, when my father was teaching at the State Agricultural College in Aalsmeer, I would accompany him to state examinations and competitions which he was judging, as well as to the construction of floral floats and exhibitions. I saw and learned a lot on the spot at these occasions.
When I was about fourteen, my father started conducting professional floristry courses in the evenings in a small wooden building in Uithoorn.
It was a one room affair, with a class-room and bar together.
I was sometimes allowed to help in the bar.
Unconsciously, I picked up a lot of know-how by just being in the room, on reflection.
30th anniversary
This year I hope to celebrate my 30th anniversary at the Boerma Instituut, so we will have a nice party at and after the Open house on August 27th 2011.
Since 1981. I started as the friday girl, helping behind the bar, the kitchen and helping in the classroom.
At that time I obtained my Florist & Business Diplomas. It was purely by accident that I landed up in the front of the class as a teacher. My father was delayed on a business trip in America, and it was too late to find a eplacement teacher. So I there I was, teaching in place of my father...
But it all started way before that: when I was a toddler of 3, I was allowed to so-called 'make' arrangements in the florist shop of my father and grandfather in Heerlen. Just to keep me occupied, I suppose.
These were then put on display and sold. Years later,
I found out it was my aunt who would take them home.
Now, my youngest son Axel is making arrangements from scraps he finds lying around at Boerma Instituut. He enjoys doing it just as I did.
Later, when my father was teaching at the State Agricultural College in Aalsmeer, I would accompany him to state examinations and competitions which he was judging, as well as to the construction of floral floats and exhibitions. I saw and learned a lot on the spot at these occasions.
When I was about fourteen, my father started conducting professional floristry courses in the evenings in a small wooden building in Uithoorn.
It was a one room affair, with a class-room and bar together.
I was sometimes allowed to help in the bar.
Unconsciously, I picked up a lot of know-how by just being in the room, on reflection.
30th anniversary
This year I hope to celebrate my 30th anniversary at the Boerma Instituut, so we will have a nice party at and after the Open house on August 27th 2011.
How did you land up working full-time at the Boerma Instituut?
I always wanted to work with tourists and holiday-makers. So I following a study in the tourist industry. But I found the course
too theoretical and boring.
The call of the Art of Floristry was just too inviting.
Working with flowers and people is an ideal combination for me. Especially when one has the chance to meet and know so many different nationalities.
So many different cultures, habits and traditions.
It is all so interesting and stimulating.
Have you had any other jobs before working at Boerma Instituut ?
I went directly from school to working at Boerma Instituut. Although, I have had in-between, worked in a few florist shops locally and overseas.
I always wanted to work with tourists and holiday-makers. So I following a study in the tourist industry. But I found the course
too theoretical and boring.
The call of the Art of Floristry was just too inviting.
Working with flowers and people is an ideal combination for me. Especially when one has the chance to meet and know so many different nationalities.
So many different cultures, habits and traditions.
It is all so interesting and stimulating.
Have you had any other jobs before working at Boerma Instituut ?
I went directly from school to working at Boerma Instituut. Although, I have had in-between, worked in a few florist shops locally and overseas.
You are working in a Floristry Institution. How is your knowledge and skills in the area?
My practical training is one which I can say started very early in my life. I grew up with Floristry. I also have had a lot of lessons from and followed demonstrations of a lot of Dutch, European and World Masters. My father has been my biggest source of inspiration when it comes to my Dutch Garden arrangements.
What is your personal favourite arrangement ?
Garden styles, corsages, linear and free-style bridal bouquets, are always challenging. The chance is big, that when one of these subjects are being taught, I would be conducting the class. I enjoy undertaking projects such as exhibition and demonstration work, as well as floral floats.
Florint
I attended the Course for European Judging in Floral Design organised by the FEUPF. Nowadays called Florint. The course was held in Amsterdam March 2007. On 29th of March, I was awarded the title and thus officially recognised by the organisation as an European Judge in Floral Design.
Frans Mank was the Course leader.The contestants came from different countries:
János Szabó; Hungary;
Isabel Wilton, Susan Wills Pope; England
Sergey Malyuchenko, Elena Zakharova, Anna Yemelyanova, Alexander (Sasha) Bermyakov, Natalia Koryakina and Ksenia Vinogradova from Russia;
Monika Kudlacz; Poland;
Hanneke Frankema & Jacqueline from the Netherlands.
Judge in floral design
I have been a judge at competitions in St. Petersburg, at Dutch national amateur competitions and the battle of the champions organized by the VBW in 2011
Ofcourse I am also a judge at competitions that we as Boerma Instituut organize and at our exams.
My practical training is one which I can say started very early in my life. I grew up with Floristry. I also have had a lot of lessons from and followed demonstrations of a lot of Dutch, European and World Masters. My father has been my biggest source of inspiration when it comes to my Dutch Garden arrangements.
What is your personal favourite arrangement ?
Garden styles, corsages, linear and free-style bridal bouquets, are always challenging. The chance is big, that when one of these subjects are being taught, I would be conducting the class. I enjoy undertaking projects such as exhibition and demonstration work, as well as floral floats.
Florint
I attended the Course for European Judging in Floral Design organised by the FEUPF. Nowadays called Florint. The course was held in Amsterdam March 2007. On 29th of March, I was awarded the title and thus officially recognised by the organisation as an European Judge in Floral Design.
Frans Mank was the Course leader.The contestants came from different countries:
János Szabó; Hungary;
Isabel Wilton, Susan Wills Pope; England
Sergey Malyuchenko, Elena Zakharova, Anna Yemelyanova, Alexander (Sasha) Bermyakov, Natalia Koryakina and Ksenia Vinogradova from Russia;
Monika Kudlacz; Poland;
Hanneke Frankema & Jacqueline from the Netherlands.
Judge in floral design
I have been a judge at competitions in St. Petersburg, at Dutch national amateur competitions and the battle of the champions organized by the VBW in 2011
Ofcourse I am also a judge at competitions that we as Boerma Instituut organize and at our exams.
What is you marital status?
I am living together with my friend Ton van Laarse since 2001..
Have you two got children ?
Yes, four between us.
Names and ages ?
Mick, born 29-08-1988
Mike, born 14-05-1990
Christine, born 12-05-1994
Axel, born 02-04-1995
Children’s hobbies ?
Mick is into computers (and his girlfriend Nathalie).
Mike did Kendo in Amstelveen but he is now a proper adolecent so he has a lot to think about, he too is into computers and likes to draw. He started his own company www.Fakura..com where he sells his t-shirt and cap designs. He will organise his release party in the end of 2010.
Mike just got his drivers license and will be 21 this year.
Cristine loves scrapbooks, she started her education as a nurse in autumn 2010.
Axel is very active, loves craft and computers.
I am living together with my friend Ton van Laarse since 2001..
Have you two got children ?
Yes, four between us.
Names and ages ?
Mick, born 29-08-1988
Mike, born 14-05-1990
Christine, born 12-05-1994
Axel, born 02-04-1995
Children’s hobbies ?
Mick is into computers (and his girlfriend Nathalie).
Mike did Kendo in Amstelveen but he is now a proper adolecent so he has a lot to think about, he too is into computers and likes to draw. He started his own company www.Fakura..com where he sells his t-shirt and cap designs. He will organise his release party in the end of 2010.
Mike just got his drivers license and will be 21 this year.
Cristine loves scrapbooks, she started her education as a nurse in autumn 2010.
Axel is very active, loves craft and computers.
Have you got hobbies outside Boerma Instituut ?
It is difficult to have hobbies besides Boerma because 'Boerma' eats up a lot of my time.
I like gardening, I live in the Boerma Instituut, so my garden is quit large.
flower arranging, but besides the lessons I do not seem to get time to make something for my house.
Cooking, I like to cook, I also cook for the students sometimes, mostly the soup.
Going for walks, in the Amsterdamse bos.
and photography, that is a good thing because I do not hold so good on the photo. This spring I took a photo lesson at the Keukenhof, that was great. So sometimes you can also see some of my photos in the bar or in the classrooms because I also print them on a bigger size if the turn out nicely.
It is difficult to have hobbies besides Boerma because 'Boerma' eats up a lot of my time.
I like gardening, I live in the Boerma Instituut, so my garden is quit large.
flower arranging, but besides the lessons I do not seem to get time to make something for my house.
Cooking, I like to cook, I also cook for the students sometimes, mostly the soup.
Going for walks, in the Amsterdamse bos.
and photography, that is a good thing because I do not hold so good on the photo. This spring I took a photo lesson at the Keukenhof, that was great. So sometimes you can also see some of my photos in the bar or in the classrooms because I also print them on a bigger size if the turn out nicely.
Jacqueline Boerma
2008 member of the jury in St. Petersburg with Janos Szabo and Frans Mank
2006 Gregor Lersch gave a one day lesson and a fantastic demonstration in our school.
2007 during the Bloemschikhappening in Alden Biesen, 'dressed' by Carel.
2008 Ton at his best at the Gulpener hopoogst. The highest word (hopoogst) and a beer. What more does a person wish for?
2006 during Kerstcreaties in Den Bosch
2007 together with Wally Klett. In 2011 she gives an Advanced Bridal Course at the Boerma Instituut. Great!
2007, during the Euroflorist event in Barcelona with my sample book with Klaus Wagener to have it signed
Where is your favourite holiday destination ?
Greece, France and Japan.
Japan is not exactly a holiday destination, it is a very interesting country to see and experience.
In 1991-92, I spent almost 6 months in Japan teaching and giving demonstrations. Unfortunately I never ventured out of Tokyo. So I would still like to see the rest of the country. There are still a lot of countries I have not visited and would love to go to. This year I will go to Brazil to give lessons at the Advanced Dutch Floral Design course in Holambra.
Greece, France and Japan.
Japan is not exactly a holiday destination, it is a very interesting country to see and experience.
In 1991-92, I spent almost 6 months in Japan teaching and giving demonstrations. Unfortunately I never ventured out of Tokyo. So I would still like to see the rest of the country. There are still a lot of countries I have not visited and would love to go to. This year I will go to Brazil to give lessons at the Advanced Dutch Floral Design course in Holambra.
What is your favourite food ?
Greek, Japanese and Korean.
It is always challenging to taste something different as long as it is not still alive. Once, my sister Nicolle and I were served living prawns which were still squirming on our plates in a Chinese restaurant in Japan.
Luckily there was a fisherman from Fiji,
he was already a fisherman for 25 years
and he loved fresh scrimps.
So we used him gratefully.
The secretary of the owner had to try it.
She told us afterwards that she still felt it moving
in her stomach.
To eat something like that is not my cup of tea.
Greek, Japanese and Korean.
It is always challenging to taste something different as long as it is not still alive. Once, my sister Nicolle and I were served living prawns which were still squirming on our plates in a Chinese restaurant in Japan.
Luckily there was a fisherman from Fiji,
he was already a fisherman for 25 years
and he loved fresh scrimps.
So we used him gratefully.
The secretary of the owner had to try it.
She told us afterwards that she still felt it moving
in her stomach.
To eat something like that is not my cup of tea.
My Japans inspiration.for a structure arrangement
