New Blog Site!

Hello all! We're both so happy to announce that our new Blog is now up! In it you can find articles on lifestyle, literature, and travel, with some amazing business articles we're really excited to share with you all coming soon.  We'd just like to take this moment to thank you all for the incredible…

New Blog in the Making

Hello again to all our wonderful readers out there! We'd just like to take a moment to thank you for your support and inspiring us to carry on writing together 🙂 In other news, if you've been wondering where we could have disappeared to for the last weeks, we'd just like to reassure you, nope,…

What Kind of Writer Are YOU?

As children, often we didn't get the opportunity to write for ourselves. It was normally either homework, exams, or schoolwork (moan). The most common scenario was writing simply because we were told to (and, we both laugh as we think of the strange writing assignments we both were given as children, not even always what…

Why We Love Cards

Let's be clear from the beginning, because there really is no denying this: We have card-mania. It's incurable really, and it doesn't help that both of us have it too. Tea-mania, Cheese-mania and adventure-mania aside, we've added yet another mania to our list of growing passions. Card-mania feels different though somehow. No- we don't say…

How Do You Want to Spend Your Now?

A friend of ours was telling us a really inspiring story lately- It's her mom's birthday, and she's elated at the thought of all her plans for the day- focused on making it an amazing one, her attention is on the event. Soon enough though, she recieves a depressing and time-demanding email, and its contents threaten…

Falling in Love With Italy- Again

Fresh from our European tour, and trip to Lake Como in Italy, we feel changed somehow- like new people. For a mother and daughter who normally travel solely together, travelling with the rest of our family was a very different experience, and one that has had a great impact on us. Arriving home, everything felt…

A Trip of Three Daughters

Ahoj from Prague, the city where our three generations of mothers and daughters have gotten together to celebrate being with one another and the special bond we share 🙂 We have teamed up with grandma to run around the whole country looking for adventure 😀 And adventure we have found, dragging each other through fields…

The Work-Fun Balance

As a mom and daughter, we try, when travelling together for our business, to maintain a good work-fun balance. The benefits of a rejuvenated business attitude and enhanced inspiration that come with enjoying ourselves while abroad mean that it's something we constantly strive to do. At the same time, we do want to get work done! So…

Deadlines- Our new Perspective

We've found that in business, and even in life, it is almost unavoidable that you will eventually hear this one word: Deadlines. It's one that as a mom and daughter in business, we've come across ourselves- not once, but many times, and it may well be one you hear often too. Recently, as almost one…

‘Do Nothing’ Day

Have you ever had a day where you just wanted to do nothing at all? A day where you choose 'be' over 'do'?  Sometimes, we just want to break our routines. When you are constantly busy- whether it be with events, travelling, work, parenthood, whatever else- there are those days when  you just crave a…

The Power of Kind Words

Words have great power. That might sound like an obvious thing- what a boring way that we should start an article! Out of all the openings, we choose this one. But the unescapable fact is, it's very true. As a mom and daughter, we've learned through experience that using kind words to encourage and support…

What Technology Taught us About Openness

Sometimes what makes us stronger is not avoiding disputes or problems, but overcoming misunderstandings and issues together. Keeping silent and not sharing our feelings with one another is a form of miscommunication that only isolates us from each other, preventing us from solving problems which are often tiny but seem large until we talk about them! It's…

How Art Exhibitions Bring us Together

As a mother and daughter, we take every chance we can to use our common interests to bring us closer together by spending more time with one another. And Art Exhibitions, by giving us the perfect opportunity to communicate and explore, and learn about each others' tastes and interests, are a wonderful way to cherish our…

Happy Mothers and Daughters Day!

TwoWingstoFly wishes you a truly wonderful and happy day together! 😀

The Happy Songs Playlist

Summer's such a beautiful time of year, but it's even better when you're jumping up and down, singing at the top of your voice, to a fantastic song 😀 So today we're sharing with you all our list of our Top 10 Happy Songs to jump up and down to. What we both love about…

The Cake

Life has many surprises. The more you look out for them, the more often they seem to pop up everywhere. In the same way, things are not always as we percieve them; as the well known quote goes, "Don't judge a book by its cover". We often do judge books by their covers, though, and…

Mothers and Daughters Day

Searching 'Celebrate' on a Search Engine online, 393,000,000 results will come up. Today we'd like to add one more result to that list. Celebrating one special person in your life, like your Mother on Mother's Day or Father on Father's day, is a truly wonderful thing, a truly wonderful way, to appreciate them. But there…

Inspiration in Everyday Places

Last week we wrote about a 'Cycle of Inspiration'- how: "You may read a quote that inspires you, brightens up your day, makes you happy. Then, fuelled by this happiness, you share that quote with others, inspiring them, brightening up their day, making them that bit happier". Inspiration is transferrable- it's a cool type of…

The Cycle of Inspiration

The little white board at the train station we use to travel around the country is normally supposed to be used to display updates on the status of different trains or journeys. We say 'supposed' because a mysterious someone has decided to give this modest little board a great purpose in life.. When we say…

Our Bags- a Mini Collection of Ourselves

We love to carry our favourite things around with us. Whether it is because we feel we must have them, like our phones, or for that special feeling of pleasure and happiness other belongings give us, many of us are reassured by that little bag we carry around with us. You can tell a lot about…

Three Things

If you could take only the three most meaningful things with you for a move abroad, what would they be? It's a question our recent trip abroad has made us ask ourselves. Today we thought we'd try to answer that burning question... A hat, a good pair of shoes and a scissor will be my…

At Home While Away

Where are you at home while away? Sometimes, even when you're away, you can find home outside your house. It's something we've realised while we were on holiday these couple of weeks. Even though we were countless miles away from the familiar surroundings of our home, we seemed to have found a new home in…

There Was a Flower

It all started with a beautiful flower exhibition. Dazzling and extraordinary paintings- all of flowers, inspired us to write a little story about a flower. But with a twist. This, we called the 'blind' story game. On a blank piece of paper, we wrote one starter sentence that we both saw- there was a flower. Then,…

I am happiest when…

With the spring here, daffodils are appearing everywhere, and so are little birds and other baby animals. Sunny days are becoming more common, and the blossoms on trees are beginning to bloom. All this has got us thinking about... being happy. Funnily enough, if you just take the time to ask yourself "What makes me…

Mother

Like a bird without a wing, this project that we've been working on- Two to Fly- wouldn't be possible without both of us, mother and daughter, working together- we need, after all, two wings to fly. Tomorrow is Mother's day in London, so we thought we'd share the poems for Mother's day we've written as a tribute to the…

Making This Your ‘Leap Year’

  You might have heard that this year is a 'leap year'- it's special. But have you ever thought about how you can make this your leap year? This year could be the year you do something you've been wanting to do for the past week, month, even for years. Today, my daughter and I…

The Power of Colour

Like kindness, power can be gained even by small acts. Funnily enough, I've noticed that choosing certain colours throughout my day- whether it be for my outfit, phone wallpaper, or for my meal, can really empower me. Colours evoke my senses and make my day an adventure. On a cloudy day, we look for those brightly coloured vegetables to warm…

An Invitation to Bird Watching

  Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed, by Simon Barnes was a little gift my daughter gave me one day. Little did we both know that it would have such a big impact on our lives. But it has, giving us both a fantastic opportunity to spend more time together and also to appreciate the wildlife around…

You and Me

Normally, we pay tribute to the one we love with gifts, words or flowers, but today we just thought we'd do it with pictures. Happy Valentines Day Poem Credit: My daughter, one of the wings of Two Wings To Fly.

Tribute to Hands

The airport is one of my favourite places for inspiration. On one notable occasion, sitting in a coffee shop, I noticed a man relaxing at the corner of the cafe, sipping his coffee and knitting a beautiful jumper. The unusual scene before me made me unable to resist approaching him to have a conversation about his interesting…

Drops of Joy

Our eyes shone with joy and delight as the white fluff slowly but steadily covered the branches of the trees in front of our home. It was the first snow of the year. Something about that scene, with those magical, beautiful, bright flakes falling and resting down on the soft green grass makes us speechless. Shrouding…

Potatoes and Warm Winter Magic

The ultimate magic of winter is its brown boldness. It is the beautiful colour of originality, of nature resting and preparing in earnest for the new start. Winter has the fragrant zest of that cosy warmth, transforming the indoors into a winter wonderland, so that we don't have to run outside to have an enjoyable time. Cloaking into a…

The Excited Blossom Tree

In front of our window resides the most funny blossom tree. You usually expect a tree to blossom in the spring when all the other trees and flowers wake up and begin to bloom once more. But no- our favourite tree, funnily enough, always has to prove its uniqueness and quirkyness to us by suddenly blossoming-…

Perkins the Christmas Tree

Christmas trees are one of the most adorable and humble creatures on this earth. Year after year, for centuries, we've invited them into our homes, sat in front of them every night, and asked them to give us joy, wellness and fun memories. And indeed they did, and still do, with a silent, loving and great heart. This…

Lost and Found

Chuck Swindoll once said "Life is ten percent of what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it", and it's a quote that has stuck with me ever since. It is our interpretations which make things, events and actions take the shape we find them in, and what happened one notable day really…

Festivology- modern Technology, Festive-Style

Modern technology offers us so much more enjoyment than simply using Facebook and Twitter to secretly stalk other people. Sure, shadowing the profiles of friends, family, colleagues (the list goes on and on) could be seen as a fun leisure, but there is so much more to discover online. What for me is one of…

Pepper Mania- a Family Thing

Do you have a favourite vegetable? If so, have you ever wondered if your love for that particular veg is shared by anyone in your family, that it might have been passed down in history by your ancestors?  Pepper was one of the vegetables that I excluded from my diet after I gave birth to my children, despite adoring the deliciousness of it,…

The Return of the Childhood Dolly- in Adulthood

As children, many of us may have felt a special type of love towards our toy animals. That little kitten, dog, horse, fish, monkey or bird gave us the wings to fly with courage, dare and confidence to the end of the world. We discovered new lands and horizons within ourselves when we held it so tight to…

Advent Calendar Mania and the Big Christmas Challenge

Have you heard of the quote that said the best part of the journey is not the destination, but the journey itself? Usually, I like to tell the story after getting the outcome of a happy ending, but this time, the happiness is in the process of making the story. As we were reviewing the magical memories…

Books aside! “why?” is your new best friend

Have you ever wondered why schools have 2 months of summer holidays? ... Or ever asked why sweet cakes are only offered at the end of the party or wedding? ... The moment you start questioning certain customs, the moment you start to change, develop, and consolidate your power of agency. The crossings at the traffic lights in the city…

Halloween Deliciousness- Celebration as a Food for the Soul

The refuge for the soul is celebration, where the reserve for energy lulls of a cool fountain that gushes joy, excitement, and vitality. Halloween is one of those rare, mysteriously enchanting and nostalgic feasts, where the dark night becomes the key to unlock new enthusiasm within us, releasing profound emotions and passionate feelings for cool smoky strength. For my daughter…

The meditation of indulgent and extraordinary pumpkin soup

There is a thrilling correlation between cooking autumnal pumpkin soup and long walks in a scenery of orange, red and yellow leaf paradise. Peculiarly, both of them start with simple elements and end up deliciously perfect. The only difficult part of the process is the beginning- like starting a business, it requires a certain amount of…

Dreams… and Spaghetti

Dreams are like spaghetti- countless restaurants and markets make, serve, and sell it to you, but really, it is only completely perfect when you make it yourself the way you like it. I doubt I would be wrong in guessing that there are perhaps as many variations of spaghetti as there are human beings on this…

The Power of Tea

Celebratory traditions- big and small- are life savers: they give our sometimes routine-like days a spark of life- a reason to be awaitned with keen eagerness. They awaken a deep sense of comfort and nostalgia within us; like sitting next to a fireplace when the world outside is bitter cold, they warm up our hearts and our…

Calling All Cheese Lovers!

Each pleasure in life has its own unique sensation. For some, we sense it immediately, whilst for others, we just enjoy the moment and add that particular memory to our range of life experiences for a reason that we are unable to truly grasp until a later time. When we eat, we sense pleasure through our senses- eyes,…

A Surprisingly Simple Recipe for Happiness

Countless books, texts and magazines claim to offer simple recipes for the "dish of happiness". Their authenticity, we are informed, comes from extensive research, past and present. But for me, the candy-coloured, vibrant pictures presenting these 'solutions' as successful were mere unfitting illustrations of a goal which was far more difficult in reality to achieve by…

Five Steps for Consistency

In a world that seems filled with distractions and all kinds of diversions, it is sometimes difficult to keep our eyes on our path. Like a journey in a forest, one moment we are calm, and feel guided by the glorious rays of the sun, and the tranquil songs of the birds, and the next, a raincloud can come…

Kernels to fulfilment

Perhaps the biggest step my daughter and I took to embarking on our path to our dreams was exploring the factors that made us feel the emptiness in our world, which had been the main resistance to our progress. An interesting thing we found was that although we were fortunate enough to be living in one of the most vibrant…

The Box O’ Memories

Many of you have probably heard the saying "A photo says a thousand words", and so it does. A photo might take us back to our most treasured memories, or lift us away, to those we have yet to create. It is an invitation to a whole new world, one filled with our wildest fantasies, sweetest nostalgias and even…

A new beginning- dreams and, of course, Sundaes

I believe that creativity starts when we are bored. Why? It is how our story started. Despite both having many activities and events to busy us, until a few months ago, my daughter and I were, quite simply, bored. Bored with repetition, bored with the monotone routine our lives seemed to be. The days seemed…

Milky Ways to Cool Down this Summer

As a mom and daughter in business, when we're not working together on projects, we put aside some time for mother-daughter fun- in other words, doing or making anything that we both love- together. And one of those loves is milk- something we've been using more than ever this summer. We find that it's really…