a little About my journeyMe
The most important role in my life is being a mother to two incredibly inspiring, beautiful women.
I've worked with space, homes, beautiful items and things I consider treasures — color and art, and how it all makes us feel — for most of my life. Even as a young child, I was always pushing my furniture around the room to see how it made me feel. No stopping a girl who wants to move things.
As Education Coordinator and later Assistant Curator at the Hockaday Center for the Arts in Kalispell, Montana, I witnessed the power of visual communication. I watched visitors and school children connect with the art , continually awed by how both the art itself and visual spaces can evoke emotion and quiet reflection.
I've helped build two homes, remodeled three, and constructed a yurt on sacred land with many friends and helpers.
I’ve owned a women's boutique in Whitefish, Montana for twenty-five years with creative, inspiring partners.
And then —
after selling my share of the partnership to my wonderful co-owner…
had time to reflect, work on some home re-do’s and projects and something truly magical happened. I was given the recognition of the beauty and freedom of
Letting go
of simplifying my life to things that i love being surrounded by.
bags went to the thrift store, bags went to the garbage, items went to “restore.” I felt lighter, and S O G R A T E F U L and i wanted to share this feeling.
that is what this offering is all about. It was an extraordinary process and i wanted to share it with others,
“ Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything … anger, anxiety, or possessions, we cannot be free’.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
After, simplifying and keeping the things I loved to look at and those that made me feel nourished the house and items “spoke” and found their place and were moved or highlighted and
That is the REWARD, THE GIFT after all the hard work
We play together with space and movement and where your eye lands
we create YOUR calm sanctuary