A Sunny Home Tour
The morning sun is up in the sky, streaming through the windows at home. I am always inspired by the way the light hits—sunbeams dancing with the shadows of tall coconut trees. I felt compelled to pick up my camera on this particular morning and take photos in and...
Making Siapo with Fa’aSamoa Arts
What is Siapo? Siapo is an ancient Samoan art form, similar to painting, but instead the canvas is called tapa (made by pounding barkcloth stripped from the mulberry tree), the paintbrush is a paogo (pandanus seed), and the inks are made from nature. The lama (black...
LONG HAIR DON’T CARE: Getting My Hair done
In my last life lately update, I totally forgot to mention another lil update I wanted to log for future me to look back on... I got my hair done for the first time since like Christmas of 2019! It's grown very long... from my shoulders, now down to my waist. I still...
Dolphins + Evidence of Climate Change
I have so much love and respect and stoke for the ocean and those that call it home — Shot these a couple weeks ago during an outreach boat trip on assignment with National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa (where I work as a communications and outreach coordinator),...
Life Lately: A Roundup Reel + Get In My Headspace
Hi hello how are ya — I shared this round up reel on instagram which pretty much highlights my entire month of July in half second snippets... and shared in the caption how I'd been feeling. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSLyvj8FNnK/ And with that... here are a few...
Sunday Lazies
We are geezers, I'm tellin' ya! We went out to Flying Fox on Saturday night, and did some karaoke at our neighbors house after, and we drank maybe like 4 drinks each, but that was enough to wipe us out all of Sunday. Like, we were sooo tired and felt like crap! I...