Entering 2025

These past few years have been the most challenging of my life. If you know me, you know what's going on.  Fortunately, or unfortunately, I poured myself into my business and opened yet another location. I thought I could thrive in the chaos!

I'm still not completely convinced that having 3 locations is the best way to go.  But one thing I can say is that my customers have been so supportive, so friendly and kind at every single location and without fail, I can show up and feel like I belong in every square inch of these locations.  I am so grateful for my past and present customers.  You have made this journey completely worthwhile.  

That said, I miss my customers from La Crescenta a lot  You were there in the beginning when I was so young and inexperienced, just blindly charging towards a dream.  You are all like family to me, and I haven't forgotten this time in my life and think of all of you often.

On a personal note, I'm in the middle of some big changes right now.  The silver lining is that I have encountered an awakening of sorts.  If you have ever encountered this, you understand.  You realize that you have not been completely true to yourself, you haven't seen reality for what it is, you've let toxic things permeate your life because you deeply believed that you can love hard enough to turn it all around.  When you finally realize that you can't fix some things, you can't sugar coat and pollyanna your way out of situations, it feels like your world is shrinking, falling apart.  There is panic.  I've spent the better half of two years accepting reality, trusting my instincts, figuring out who I am and learning how to regulate these emotions through the major anxiety and drama that has accompanied all of it.  This might be vague, but I guarantee that a few of you are nodding and know exactly what I mean.  If you are also in the middle of it, I can say this... keep pushing, believe in yourself and believe that the right material and teachers will show up right when you need them.  I am in complete disbelief of the help, the people and the situations that have presented themselves at the exact time I needed it.  They have saved me. They have mirrored to me why I belong, why I am worthwhile, that I have value and I deserve respect.  Angels are among us.

Hopefully that wasn't too TMI-ey.  I feel a kinship with you and being vulnerable seems in keeping with that.

My goal is to push through all of this and put all of my energy into my art, my spaces and my customers.  You all bring me infinite amounts of joy.  I love creating spaces that you can get lost in and put a smile on your face.  Thank you for allowing me to do that.

Rabbit, rabbit, white rabbit.  To a year filled with authenticity, love and joy.