Swedish Rose. What is a Swedish Rose?

First, it's apparently an altogether forgettable china pattern from the Swedish Lodge Collection by Lenox China. Sorry, Lenox, but I'm just not impressed. Second, it's a Society. The Swedish Rose Society, to be exact, a member of the Nordic Rose Society based in, of all places, Sweden, and having to do with...get this...roses!

Third and most important, there is MY Swedish Rose, the original San Diego based Swedish Rose which pre-dates both the China pattern and the Rose Society, and is simply a beautiful phrase which falls trippingly from the tongue and combines a part of my heritage, the Swedish part, and my beautiful wife's maiden name: Rose. I just like the way the name sounds, the way it looks, and the implied paradoxical juxtaposition of the strong and delicate. Strong (think Swedes, Vikings, Norsemen)...delicate (think any kind of rose you've ever tried to cultivate, but couldn't). The name worked well for me when I had to come up with a catchy title for my Custom Jewelry business many years ago and I continued to use the name when I switched gears and moved into screenprinting, a more profitable side business which later gave way to Swedish Rose Web Design, the latest of my business iterations to incorporate the Swedish Rose name.

If you're visiting this site as a potential client, you'll find links to my current customers on the 'Clients' page. If you think you'd like to have me develop a web presence for you, just send me an email, bill@swedishrose.com, and I'll contact you to discuss your project. The rest of my site, a modest collection of cartoons, illustrations 'and more' is pretty much for anyone and everyone to browse through at their leisure.

Thank you so much for visiting Swedish Rose and if you'd like to leave feedback, good or bad, please email me using the link, above. The bad stuff gets deleted immediately. The good stuff I'll show to my Mom.