Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to the launch of a semi-new adventure! This blog and website are to document my journey through this new phase of my life, where I learn how to create, organize and hopefully sell my works and document my progress and activities that inspire those works.

A quick overview about me:

I'm fairly shy, definitely introverted, and I prefer to text rather than call.

I have two dogs and 2 cats, all of which are my babies, and will be featured pretty regularly, due to my obsession with their extreme cuteness!

I love to play with the animals, walk or hike in the local parks, and create art.

I'm attempting to live a vegan/cruelty-free lifestyle. It's a struggle, and clean vegan eating is only a small part of it. I am trying to also not use any products that are not made both vegan and cruelty free, so no animal testing as well as no products produced by the means of ruining habitat for the sake of those products, such as palm oil. It's very hard to sit in stores and read all of the ingredients, or do research on companies to see how they produce their wares. It takes a lot of time and effort to make sure it's all in line with my values and not give in to the "just this once" mentality. I'm also making it a slow process to weed out all of the products I've been using, without wasting the money or products that I've already bought, and replacing them with eco-friendly, animal friendly, vegan products. In all honesty, I'm just getting started, but I'm hoping to be a fully functioning vegan by the end of this year.

I love to garden! Well, I love the easy parts of gardening, to be more specific. I don't particularly like the hard, back breaking parts of gardening, and the heavy things and expensive tools that go with it. I'm currently working with my boyfriend to turn his yard into a sustainable garden that will produce fruits and veggies for many years.

I live to create. Or that's how I want to live. Right now I have more ideas than anything and the need to work on all of them is strong. I'm bouncing back from a hard sink into depression and anxiety, and so the crawl out from the deep has been slow progress. I am a lot more stable, and working hard to stay that way. Shout out to anyone with a mental illness who is working on staying stable, especially in these tough times.

All of that being said, this is a little bit of everything blog. Lifestyle, art, probably a bit of travel, DIY, gardening, ect. Everything I am interested in. Now, I will try to label everything appropriately so that if you're here for one thing, then you can find it quickly. That's the goal anyways.

Thanks for stopping by! Talk to you next time :)