Sapphire Dreams is the collection I chose for my Senior Project, the one where I make the patterns and actually produce the garments to ...
In January I decided I wanted to grow some plants. At this point in my life, I hadn’t successfully produced fruit of any kind from any plant in my care. Growing up I specifically avoided my mom while she was “playing in the dirt.” I guess her example rubbed off on me despite my efforts… View more
Update 12/6/2019: I won the social media portion of the contest! Thank you for voting for my dress on Facebook! The Las Vegas Fashion Council hosts a Little Black Dress contest annually. I participated in it in 2016 and 2017. They took 2018 to revamp the contest, so they didn’t have one last year, but… View more
Black Friday just happened. I’m not one to go crazy over deals and wait in crazy long lines late on Thanksgiving or super early Black Friday morning. It’s just not my thing. However, I did buy myself a brand new Kitchenaid stand mixer online. They were 30% off at a few stores, but I chose… View more
I’ve gone through a lot of crazy hard things in the past decade, moving a bazillion times, getting a divorce, and graduating from college. I spend a lot of time throughout all that, judging myself and the things I like purely out of habit. I’m so tired of judging myself and worrying about what other… View more
This post contains affiliate links. Click here for full disclosure. Update 11/11/2019: I made my first YouTube video! Watch it so see what I got in my November order! doTERRA launched their holiday products for this year! I submitted my order early on Friday because most often the products I want the most get sold… View more
This is the third part of my doTERRA story, to read the first part go here, for the second part go here. All of my real self-development began with my introduction to doTERRA. I couldn’t see it then, but I can clearly see it now. doTERRA led me to learn about my emotions and feelings,… View more
This is the second part in my doTERRA story, read the first part here. Learning Process I spent the months after enrolling in doTERRA pouring over the materials Tammy gave me. I was trying to learn everything I could and soak up all the information about essential oils I could find. I tried, unsuccessfully, hosting… View more
It Started With A Text Invite In October 2012 my best friend, Cassi, texted me one morning and asked if I would be interested in going with her to a girls’ night/essential oil class that night. I was intrigued because I had an experience with Tea Tree Oil as a teenager, but my red flags… View more
When I originally wrote this post I was struggling with feeling worthy, as if my life and my dreams didn’t matter, like I was worthless. I was in a depressive funk and wasn’t sure I would actually graduate from school because getting anything done took massive effort and that made me feel exhausted. I was… View more
This collection was created in my Advanced Fashion Illustration class. The first half of the class we had to do our illustrations by hand and the second half we got to choose to do them by hand or digitally. I still prefer doing my illustrations in Illustrator, mainly so I can create my prints for… View more
Sapphire Dreams is the collection I chose for my Senior Project, the one where I make the patterns and actually produce the garments to showcase at Portfolio Show. For our technical and production classes we only had to choose 5 or 6 looks to produce, which was about 10-12 garments. I chose the easiest ones… View more
Simply Lush was my first mini collection I designed in school. I did it in my Technical Design class. I learned a lot about myself in Technical Design, one thing in particular is how much I love the technical design process. I love getting into all the details of a garment, what fabrics to use,… View more
