Hi! I'm Lauren, and I'm Getting Intentional About Life

I have been thinking about starting my own website for quite some time now. As a creative outlet, avenue for community building, and personal ritual, it just seems like a perfect fit with my interests and goals. However, for the past year, I’ve been bouncing around ideas of what to focus on. Should I lean into my passion for travel? Focus on a blog about my sewing and crafting ventures? Share personal recipes that I prepare to feed my soul? Write about fashion and what it means to me?

I just have...a lot of interests (I see you, fellow neurodivergent cuties). Choosing just one feels both daunting and a little limiting. Besides, all these aspects of my life connect with each other.

I think that on any given day, I might be thinking a lot about my next travel plan, but that might influence how I’m thinking about fashion, too. Or, an idea that comes up in a crafting project might inspire a new recipe, or remind me of a product or a practice that’s elevated my life. There are just....so many connections!

Ok but seriously, I do sort of feel like Charlie about this. Isolating any one of these things into a single focus and not allowing the space to connect all these aspects of myself just wouldn't feel authentic. I imagine it would almost mimic the feeling of a presentation that I happen to be sharing with strangers on the internet. That could be my ADHD speaking, but I also just think it feels more human, to show up in a way that acknowledges all these parts of ourselves. Don't we sort of need that right now, to have more spaces to just...be ourselves? to be creative? to imagine with abandon?

The truth is, our jobs and our hobbies and our social lives don’t exist within neat little vacuums, and to treat them as though they don’t influence us on a continuum isn’t giving them the intentionality that they deserve. The intentionality that we deserve. I think that word, intentional, is really at the core of why I'm starting this. Writing things down has always helped me to make sense of myself, and in that process, to be more intentional with my life. It isn't a linear or quick process by any means, but I know it's something I could use a lot more of -- and something that might be healing to share with others. Besides, isn't it more fun to do this kind of work in community?

I’ve been pondering about how to create a life for myself that is both creative and challenging. One that drives me to achieve things I am currently dreaming of (and I dream a lot,) but that also allows room for me to evolve. I’ve been drawn to creative pursuits since I was a child, whether it be my long-time love for dance or my childhood drawings of dresses I imagined over cozy Saturday mornings beside my mom on the couch. I don’t think that these things have to be separate from each other, but they can be intentional. They can be challenging, and they can lead to a distinct and purposeful path.

So, this site is beginning as a way for me to chronicle my passions, share what’s inspired and pushed me to evolve, and form new ideas about how all the beautiful elements of our lives might fit together. Sure, it’s a lifestyle blog, but it’s really about crafting a life—crafting your dreams, realizing them, and truly, utterly enjoying life.

Please come back and dream with me!

-Lauren