If confidence had a color, it would be emerald. Emerald isn’t just a shade in the green family, it’s a green with a secret. It’s the color of the queens’ velvet robe who knows her worth. This Color Crush Series blog is all about history, richness in hue, emotion, and unapologetic presence. Emerald doesn’t ask…
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Color Crush Series PINK
I love all colors. Just one color can tell a story. Imagine a dark green accent wall in a stark white living room. It screams moody, edgy, and cozy in all the white. It creates character amongst the boring. Yesterday, I was watching a TikTok of a small makeup business and someone asked why they…
Playfulness Is My New Superpower
For the entirety of my creative endeavors, I chased perfection. I edited and over-thought everything until the pictures were pristine, stitched in perfect lines, and everything was curated like I was sending it off to a museum. Naturally after years of that I lost the spark along with the glitter, the giggles, and the joy. For me creating was my…
A Pause, A Pandemic, A Palette Reborn
In 2019, I walked away from the creative world—not with a dramatic slam of the door, but with a quiet, aching pause. It didn’t feel like burnout. It wasn’t a failure. It was something more….something like a slow unraveling of joy. Back then, my art felt more like a performance than an outlet. Every stitch, every brushstroke, every weave, every pixel was weighed down by a heaviness of expectation—mine,…
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