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Follow me around my sketch book, yoga mat, the city of Los Angeles & all over the world in my new blog.
Whether you're here to learn more about my creative services, practice some mindful yoga, follow my traveling adventures or simply like what I am doing—I seriously so happy to have you here. You are an incredible soul and I can't wait to hopefully get to know you better.
Not Just Another Travel Romance, Pt. 2
A girl and a boy; both on individual ambitious paths to success. A meet cute beyond belief. A change in course. A story that continues to shock me and those I get to share it with. Too long for one blog, so here it is, in parts. A Match Made in Moab, part 2.
Not Just Another Travel Romance, Pt. 1
A girl and a boy; both on individual ambitious paths to success. A meet cute beyond belief. A change in course. A story that continues to shock me and those I get to share it with. Too long for one blog, so here it is, in parts. A Match Made in Moab, part 1.
How to Make Hard Decisions
How to make hard decisions when you're stuck in a state of indecisiveness.
I Moved to LA for a Year, and Here’s What Happened
I started a youtube channel! Here’s my first video—Went from living at home with my parents in Mississippi after college to making a huge move across the country to Los Angeles. One incredible year in Los Angles, my favorite city, with my new friends, and huge growth. So sad to leave this beautiful city but excited to head out on my next adventure—traveling around the world for a year+. Stay tuned for more about that here on my channel!
How I Became a Freelance Graphic Designer—Pt. Three
Part Two: How I stopped thinking like a fine artist, started thinking like a professional designer, threw myself head first into the deep end, and began a sustainable career as a freelance graphic designer in the city of Los Angeles.
How I Became a Freelance Graphic Designer—Pt. Two
Part Two: How sorority life sharpened my skills, how getting my first paying client was a fail, and why I turned down my “dream job” in NYC.
How I Became a Freelance Graphic Designer—Pt. One
Part One: How my creative parents, annoying teachers, and love for Adam Levine sparked my interest in graphic design that eventually led to my career as a freelance graphic designer.
How to Make a Vision Board That Works
It’s probable that at some point in your life, you’ve either made a vision board or have at least attempted to. Vision boards have the potential to be an instrumental tool for growth in your life if you create them with the right intentions. Making a vision board to get crafty or create a cute bulletin board for your desk is great, but taking it a step further and asking yourself some deep questions can turn a fun craft project into a life changing vision of your future.
My Morning Routine— Working From Home
As a freelance graphic designer who works from home, I have developed, refined, and keep refining my morning routine. I used to be fearful of “routines” I thought the word was dirty for a freelancer. Now that I’ve had a whole year of solo freelancing/working from home under my belt, I’ve really begun to appreciate the value in having a routine, at least in the mornings. I’ve refined my routine to a few simple steps that never fail to put me in a productive mood that lasts the whole day. Here is my morning routine step by step.
Meditating w/ a mind that doesn’t want to
How meditation changed my life. A year ago I was happy as a clam. The kind of young, innocent, giddy happy that comes from experiencing new things with wide open eyes, and absolutely no worries. Why would I need to sit still and attempt to think about nothing every day? That honestly seemed strange and totally unnecessary. Nonetheless, I tried it a few times and I literally remember laughing at how silly I felt.
How to Cleanse your Space
My how to guide of purging, organizing, making space, and truly #springcleansing. This weekend I’ve worked on cleansing. Cleansing both physically and emotionally. Digging deep, into the parts that sometimes hurt. Bringing everything to the surface. Going through it all with gratitude. Getting rid the things that no longer spark joy. And making so much room for the new stuff to grow.
How to Meditate
Let me take you through a simple mindful meditation of mine. I have it transcribed below, but if you would prefer to listen, attached is a 10 min recorded guided meditation to help you ease gracefully into your meditation.
Manifesting Your Destination
Why I chose to complete yoga teacher training online during the COVID-19 epidemic. Earlier this year I began manifesting a dream into reality. To teach yoga around the world. I’m not sure how familiar you are with the concept of manifestation, but it’s a pretty simple concept: truly believe your dream is already a reality—think it, speak it, attract it— and it will be/is already yours.
Resting in the Pause
Life is like a body of water we’re swimming in. The goal is land in the distance, our swimming trajectory is the plan, and life is the waves. And boy, the last few years the waves have been big. We’re used to getting hit with big waves and swimming through, but something is different now. Now the water is still, it’s thick, and we’re slowed down. Slowed so much that we are forced to pause.
I fell in love in Vietnam & it's okay.
Today I want to talk about the time I legit fell in love (maybe even got married lol) and traveled with a boy I barely knew in South East Asia—and how I had the most amazing experience of my life because I let go of old values and began living in the present.
Traveling for a year. I must be crazy?
Leave it to the unstable, twenty-something girl who moved to LA on a whim just one year ago to decide to travel the world for a year or more. I can’t even begin to try to explain how my brain works; just observing it for now. Anyway, yeah I’m moving on the trusty promise of a one way plane ticket to India and pretty much nothing else. But first let me explain how I came to this crazy conclusion.
Starting a Business Ain’t Easy
As the daughter of four inspiring parents, all of whom are entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship is in my veins. My first business endeavor happened at the ripe age of 5 years old—I made jewelry from pipe cleaners & beads and, believe it or not, people actually bought them on a retail display at my mom's salon (haha poor customers).