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We swam, shedding our rings and tucking them into tiny hideaway crevices, should they decide to free fall off of our fingers into the clear cold.

The small.
The sacred.


Isn’t that what the days that stick out in our minds are most often made up of?

Sleeping underneath the heavy cloak of the brisk arresting air, unhindered by ceilings, the shushing of HVAC units, general beeps or digital lights that we are never able to quite fully emit from dreamland.

It’s so much cooler here than back home. So much so that we felt as though we had transcended seasons.
That, coupled with the simplicity of it all— a kind of coming home.
Of meandering unstructured time associated with an ease that precedes a peaceful and simple joy.
Wanting to incorporate such simplicity into the every day of back home but somehow never quite getting there.
If only it could be as it always is, on The Road.

The 900 Kilometers Scarf

I used to have a full time knitwear design job.
I would design and release knitwear collections seasonally and knit all of the pieces myself, by hand, one stitch at a time.

(You can see some past collections here, here and here if you like)

I gave it up a few years ago in pursuit of other ventures, but lately I’ve been missing creating things with my hands so I’ve been knitting a few pieces again here and there.

I had the pleasure of knitting this commissioned one-of-a-kind piece while I was in Ireland. Inspired by the rolling green landscapes and the 900 or so kilometers driven over the course of a week.

Knitting is a thing I’ve done for almost twenty years of my life and you just can’t shake that kind of engrained motion.

Perhaps more knitwear work will be in my future down one of these roads somewhere...

See more posts on Ireland HERE.


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Folkling Shop Update | Books From Ireland

A tiny collection of special tomes from my adventure to Ireland are now listed in the shop ✨

As a writer and photojournalist, literature is one of my favorite things to hunt for in shops on back country roads and down funky city side streets.

For years, no matter how little money I had, or where I was in the world, books were always the exception to any budget or any packing restriction. I have been known to carry armfuls of books onto various forms of transportation all over this world because they wouldn’t fit in my suitcase... I have long held the belief that there is an appetite in each of us that nothing like a good book can fill.

You can shop these special books from Ireland here.

Folkling Vintage | The California Coast

Folkling Vintage | The California Coast

I have been in California for part of August, and while there I picked up a few vintage finds for folkling.

Shooting these pieces while driving up the Pacific Coast Highway was such a fun artistic endeavor for me.

It is combining many of my loves, photography, vintage, travel, all into one.

I appreciate all of you who’ve supported Folkling over the last two years of its existence. It’s a venture that I get so much enjoyment out of and not only something I preach, but practice.
I truly believe in the sustainability and ethical consciousness in buying secondhand first and appreciating that which already exists in the world.
Additionally, you are fueling my life on The Road in more ways than one, and that’s a dream for which I cannot thank you enough.

If you are interested in any of these pieces, shoot me a direct message through the Folkling instagram.
Thank you to everyone who sees value in shopping slow.
xo

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