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leeeeeet me just brag a little on this amazing wom

leeeeeet me just brag a little on this amazing woman and new business pleaseee.
Em is wildly creative, lives open heartedly, and lives out of abundance- of course she started a Oat Milk business to serve our community and earth with an alternative option for us dairy free folks. Not to mention the immense difference of what it takes on the land, water use, and carbon emissions from cow milk to oat milk (look it up, it’s crazy).
Excited to see my badass female friends in town start some yummy businesses that will serve our community and give freedom to their schedules.

If you want to support Em’s new business venture and learn more she has a Go Fund Me Page live right now to start the ball rolling!! We all have needed a little love and support at different stages of our career and businesses, so think about supporting Em on hers!! (go to her instagram page to learn more and donate!) @sweetoatarizona

I really don’t know where else I’d rather be i

I really don’t know where else I’d rather be in the fall than Flagstaff, Arizona. Those aspen trees are magical. They sing melodies of the warm bright summer we enjoyed at the lake but those leaves of green turning to yellow and falling off their branches are slowing us into our new rhythms of winter.
Life changes and comes full circle once again.
I wouldn’t have it any other way. 🍂

Where my day dreamin runs off to 🥰 🌊

Where my day dreamin runs off to 🥰 🌊

This day has been a lonnnnggg time coming for Loga

This day has been a lonnnnggg time coming for Logan & Parker! Many years of planning to replanning after their first wedding got moved because of quarantine. It was well worth it. To state what Parker said during his welcome speech at the reception... they could have gotten eloped but they didn’t because they so valued celebrating this day with all of their favorite people. More than ever we seem to be craving human connection and celebration. This wedding was needed for all of us ❤️⁣
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This ridiculous amazing team made it happen: ⁣
Planning: @andrealeslieweddings ⁣
Florals: @luxflorist ⁣
Dress: @uptownbridal ⁣
Venue : @elchorroweddings ⁣
Video: @serendipitycinema
Make up: @mua_nat ⁣
Cake: @abakeshop ⁣
Rentals: @latavolalinen @brighteventrentals @glamourandwoods ⁣
Invitations: @beinlovedesigns ⁣
DJ: @rockyouent ⁣

Todayyyy my friends and clients get married after

Todayyyy my friends and clients get married after rescheduling their first wedding date from April to September 🙌🏽🥳
Logan & Parker we’re so excited to celebrate with you despite the masks and covid rules, it will be one to remember. Let’s make some memories! 😷

A little Italy reminiscing this afternoon. It’s

A little Italy reminiscing this afternoon. It’s been 6 years since I first stepped foot on those magical lands. 😭😭😭 Why am I so addicted to beauty? I just needed to share little pieces of Italian beauty for your eyes today. All thanks to an iPhone camera. #italia

Life too mysterious to take it so serious 🙃

Life too mysterious to take it so serious 🙃

I’ve watched my mother decorate our 1800’s hom

I’ve watched my mother decorate our 1800’s home since I could ever remember. The bathroom tile from a century ago would not be removed but rather learned how to design around. The mantles and fireplaces were meant to be statements not just to set a candle on. And the little spaces were made to feel something, to know something about my family and why we loved our home. I have been dreaming about decorating a home since I was very young. It was not something my mother taught me but rather I watched, observed her shopping choosing special pieces that reflected a feeling she wanted to emulate at home.
It’s in the textures, the plants, the colors that we get to express our personalities and how we want people to feel when they walk in our home. Can you see a theme yet in mine? 🌊🌿

I’ve lived here now for 1 month. Finally out of boxes and organized a bit. These are the little space in my home I enjoy and find happiness in. There are MANY things I’m excited to change or do or buy but right now this is good. I think it’s important to love it before you change it. Kinda like your body…more on that later this week!

🍂AUTUMN MINI SESSION DATES🍂!…are coming to

⁣ What a little bit of water does for my soul. H

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What a little bit of water does for my soul. Hot springs, ocean tides, or cold rivers- She restores me. It was in the quiet of the morning breeze and hot waters I remembered… this is all I’ve got, this is where I belong. ⁣
This moment right now. ⁣
To myself. ⁣
The stress, the emails, the to do’s, the relationships, the editing, the hustle isn’t happening RIGHT NOW. It doesn’t get to run my life. ⁣
It doesn’t get to speak louder than nature than my own breath. ⁣
But my breath. ⁣
Deep inhales and exhales I can hear internally when I’m floating just under the water. ⁣
Those breaths get to run my life and remind me where I belong. ⁣
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I read a poem today that spoke to many things stirring inside lately. ⁣
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✨‘Where are you from?’✨⁣
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I think I just belonged⁣
to the gods⁣
to the women I was⁣
to the men that I⁣
loved⁣
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I think I just⁣
belonged. ⁣
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And the where ⁣
didn’t really matter. ⁣
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@danica.gim ⁣

When intention is mixed with creativity and food,

When intention is mixed with creativity and food, all goes right. A meal is meant to spend time on, not quickly made and not enjoyed. And what happens at the table I argue, happens no where else. The conversation, the enjoyment, the magic. And then you know add farm fresh food and it’s an experience for the senses.⁣
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These two amazingggg + creative Flagstaff local minds came together to create a farm to table dinner last weekend. @chefgeorgemurko made the most ridiculous tasting food while @rootsmicrofarm created the experience in the farm. Please do it again guys!!!

The day where we all were to be in Mexico celebrat

The day where we all were to be in Mexico celebrating this love on a beach, we found ourselves surrounded around only family and red rocks. I don’t think anyone expects to change their plans or wedding day. If they did... they probably wouldn’t have made plans in the first place. But as it is, life never goes to plan.

Some freak the f out when their plans fall through and others take what they can get. Mark & Cara made lemonade out of lemons for their wedding day. It could have been sour and disappointing but instead it was a party. Thank you 2020 for teaching us ALL we never were actually in control. Let’s make some tasty memorable ridiculously good lemonade in 2020 people!🍹🍋

Just loving living life in the pine trees 🌲🌲

Just loving living life in the pine trees 🌲🌲🌲

Hawai’i has my heart like no other place I’ve

Hawai’i has my heart like no other place I’ve spent time on this planet. The last 5 winters I’ve swam, camped, hiked, farmed, explored, and fell in love with these islands. If you are an ocean person I don’t have to explain much but if you aren’t well… there is this wildly massive all consuming salty energy that I’m physically drawn to in a way I don’t have words. I’m lovesick when I’m too far from it and the happiest when I’m being taken by it’s power and might. It’s a romance that I have with the ocean some might say. ⁣
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I was suppose to move to Hawaii at the end of 2020. It was my third attempt moving out there in my 20’s. I told many people, made many connections with brands and businesses this year while visiting Maui, and even started telling my clients in Arizona I would be moving. Bittersweetly, I decided right before quarantine this was not the best move for me and my business. I hate letting myself down and saw it as letting my dreams pass. I have a massive fear of getting to my 60’s and regretting that I didn’t follow my dreams. So I usually jump, go, not think, just do. But something was stirring that I needed to listen to. I don’t know what Arizona has for me but I love this community and mountain so much so I know it’s not time to leave quite yet. Sometimes listening to your heart doesn’t look the way you thought it would. I crave adventure, ocean days, and newness but I also crave consistency, slowing down, showing up for my people, and being home. ⁣
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So here I am, in love with this life I’ve created and listening deeply to my heart. My love for Hawaii won’t be going anywhere rather it grows everyday I’m not there. Just learning to take the next step instead of freaking out I won’t ever get to all those dreams of mine.

i do not want to have you to fill the empty parts

i do not want to have you
to fill the empty parts of me
i want to be full on my own

i want to fill so complete
i could light a whole city
and then
i want to have you
cause the two of
us combined
could set
it on fire
@rupikaur_

So manyyyy emotions shown on Claire & Jack’s wed

So manyyyy emotions shown on Claire & Jack’s wedding day! These days, the ones where time stand stills and human emotions are on full display, are my favorite kind of days. 💛

Yummy Sedona magical proposal! ✨She was absolute

Yummy Sedona magical proposal! ✨She was absolutely shocked that he proposed when he did and that I was hiding in a bush waiting for a good 15 mins. There are some moments in life that are so unfiltered and so caught off guard they are rare and far between. I love to be in the in between to document what will never happen again. #sedonapropsal

Sooooo.... I brought a house today in Flagstaff!!!

Sooooo.... I brought a house today in Flagstaff!!! Kinda crazy, very excited, & I know what you are thinking...you never thought I’d get here. Putting roots down and staying in one spot. 🤷🏼‍♀️ ⁣
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But what I’ve learned about life is : you get to have both. You can have a beautiful rooted community in one town where everyone knows your name + build a home AND also travel the world to see new places + know home is wherever you are. ⁣
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This is the next life stage I find myself in. Community, rest, & home. Flagstaff has my heart. ⁣
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I recognize the immense privilege it is to not only run a business + be an artist BUT also be a woman and buy a home + land. After working with so many women across the world who are in different life circumstances than I but, also share in the same dream to own their own home, I don’t take this purchase lightly or without thinking of them. So this home is not only to cultivate community and creativity but also the reality that you CAN be single + an artist + woman + save your damn money + make your own dreams come true. ⁣
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And Yasssss ok you can come over for dinner. You are always welcomed at my table and now my home.

Thank you to @flagstaffhouses for helping me along the way 😘 #flagstaffliving

Happpppy birthday @katieleephoto. You get to celeb

Happpppy birthday @katieleephoto. You get to celebrate a wedding AND birthday in the same week. Love your contagious spirit for depth, growth, and desire to know more of this planet. I can always count on you to kindly put me in my place, tell me if that dress doesn’t look good on me, and your true opinions. I love that about you and how opposite we are from each other yet the best of friendship. Happy birthday a day late because would you expect anything less from me?

One random day during quarantine, we all met an ho

One random day during quarantine, we all met an hour south of Flagstaff to find a little warmth during the cold winter days. The girls played for hours in the half barren forest and kinda dirty looking creek but it didn’t matter. We all were in bathing suits enjoying the first bit of the summer sun kissing our skin. Simple and sweet. It’s in the little moments with the humans that surround me I find the most joy. In these moments with @tommy_rivs , where he was silent snuggling his girls in the hammock by the creek during quarantine, that I will remember. Hold your people near. This life will not always be promised but hope is.
Pray to our God and Creator for the healing in his body.

As he sung in a beautiful Iron + Wine song captured by @caleb.schiff
“So may the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten”