It is apropos that this first blog post is on the full moon Lunar eclipse in Scorpio this year, bringing an ending to the past and providing optimistic growth and spiritual healing for the future.
It's been a rough year personally; and before that a pretty strange couple of years while the planet navigated uncharted waters.
I'm annie. Mom lovingly called me that. To everyone else I went by my first name.
When I was growing up my mom painted beautiful oil paintings of the Colorado mountains that we had loved from first sight. I was in awe of her skill to see and paint the subtleties of light and shadow as it slowly drifted across the peaks and valleys. I learned to see detail.
I didn't start designing until I was 30. Receiving a degree in communication arts and photography I set out to conquer the art world. My education led me to advertising art and product photography. It's very involved and requires immense attention to detail. I lost myself - literally.
I created businesses for others while unknowingly abandoning my own. Many years later I woke up wondering where time had gone. It didn't occur to me then that it was me that was gone.
As I sit here reflecting on my journey I find that I can't really share it. Not that I don't remember, but it doesn't matter now. I can tell you that I am different. I am a different person than I was 25 years ago, 2 years ago, 8 months ago, yesterday, an hour ago. With the passage of time has come an increasingly accelerated spiritual awakening. I am more self-aware. I am reintegrating into my body. I am processing and evolving spiritually at an rate that is amazing me.
annie+Max design is 100% a reflection of me and the inspirations of Max - my mom, and lessons gained in learning to live a Creative Life. It's about a renewal of honoring my heritage and skills that I had previously laid down in order to soothe the egos of others. It's about honoring my quirky sense of humor, love of plants, and food, and coffee, and the strength & peace of my inner Hygge Viking.
I will, in the future, sometimes share visions from my daily meditations or ah-ha moments in my discovery of self. This will tie into the designs you see in my store. I hope I can inspire you to also find the artist within yourself to assist in your own spiritual freedom.