About

Mamachka is the dream of Sofia Howard, who at a young age had a passion for all things beautiful and creative.  Sofia has collected experience and personal interests that have shaped her into the multi faceted creative person that she is today. 

Mamachka is a lifestyle blog and multi-service shop.  The word Mamachka is an Eastern European term for the affectionate way of saying mother.  A Mamachka is beloved.  Mamachka blog & shop is where we share the beauty and love of motherhood, family, travel, and every day life through words, pictures, flowers, and all the beautiful and whimsical things that make your house a home.

A little bit about Mamachka Sofia of Mamachka Blog & Shops

Sofia was born in Ukraine and although she grew up living in both the east and west coast, she a Southern California girl at heart.  Sofia is the wife to Mr. Taylor James Howard and Mamachka to her Alice Lucille.  Sofia and her family live by the beach in sunny Huntington Beach, CA.   Sofia has always been drawn to arts and crafting.  She frequently would start many different projects at a time and yearned to learn more and more on how to create all sorts of things that she was inspired by.  This natural curiosity lead her to several life changing jobs throughout her life.

One of Sofia's first jobs was at a flower shop in her hometown of huntington beach.  Armed with hands on experience and years of mentoring, at twenty,  she started her own freelance wedding flower business which specialized in client tailored wedding day flowers.  Sofia now specializes in crafting whimsical and elegant weddings and workshops.  Each event is created with love and care to ensure that the clients vision comes to life.  Sofia is a full service florist with specialization in weddings, special events and workshops and seasonal arrangements.

 While practicing floral design is the art form that Sofia greatly enjoys, practicing and teaching yoga is an art that Sofia enjoys to practice with her mind and body.  Sofia has been a yoga student and teacher for nearly a decade.  She teaches many methods of yoga and yoga fusion fitness.  Her speciality is vinyasa yoga, a flowing choreographed class that is both invigorating for the body as it is the mind, but she is also trained and teaches hot yoga, yoga pilates, yoga sculpt, and yin yoga.  Sofia has also completed the yoga Tune up training as well as yoga therapy ball training. Sofia loves the benefits that yoga has for every BODY and has practiced and taught though many stages of her life, including during and post pregnancy with her first daughter.  Sofia is a 400 hour experienced registered yoga teacher  E-RYT with the Yoga alliance.  She has taught yoga and fitness and managed nationally recognized  yoga studios all over Los Angeles County and Orange County since 2011.  She now works as a freelance yoga instructor specializing in private yoga lessons, corporate yoga classes, and local & world wide yoga retreats.   Please Email us for questions, request a quote, or book a retreat.

Sofia has always been a connector and thrives when she has the chance to connect with other people.  Mamachka blog is the conduit for just that.  Mamachka blog is a lifestyle and creative blog that shares inspiration from everything from flower arrangements to the mindfulness of yoga and beyond to the day to day tid bits of motherhood and all the beauty in every day life.  

Mamachka shop is a colorful shop full of imagination and play in mind.  Everything in our shop is carefully and lovingly handmade.  Find unique nursery décor as well as accessories and jewelry for all of the Mamachka's in your life.  You can also find fresh seasonal arrangements that are curated specifically for you.

We hope that your find everything you are looking for here.  Come  play, create, be inspired, and get to know us.  Reach out if you have any questions!