BRAND FANdom
Remember when I said at the beginning of my year that the Converse fandom levels would rival that of my biggest brand to date, Starbucks? Well that observation was correct, and now I’m officially...
For 1 Year Of My Life 1 Woman, 1 Year, 1 Brand, 1 Challenge
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The Footwear Fetish Capital of America
Want to know where to go if you love footwear? Look no further than Portland, Oregon! This quiet city boasts one of the largest #FootwearFetish cultures in the world, and with Nike corporate in its backyard...
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The Converse Universe
So I’m one month into my #365Converse challenge and I’ve already learned SO MUCH about this brand! First of all, this might come as a shock to all my Starbucks fans out there but...
From Selfies to Footies
For the last week, I have shot images in preparation for my year-long challenge of living the Converse brand in 2016 and started to realize how different it is to be shooting your...
A Beautiful List
It is the Winter Solstice and for weeks it’s been holidays full of gratitude, reflections of the year’s events and excitement for the turning of the #NewYear. This time of reflection also means it’s...
We R Family
This whole year I’ve realized just how close the SubPop and Hardly Art families are. I first discovered this when I started investigating the Hardly Art musicians at the beginning of the year and...
Riding the Path of Music
This Fall has had me finishing my Sub Pop Rock N’ Roll summer with a very rockstar instrument, drums! I started drumming earlier this year when I played multiple percussion instruments like dun duns,...
MidSummer Music Dreams
It’s now August and the summer concert series is in a midsummer peak… Living a year of the Sub Pop music brand brings a heightened awareness of just how many concerts one can attend...
String Theories
Since May, I have embarked on learning string instruments. I started out on my personal favorite, Ukulele’s, and then transitioned into electric, acoustic, bass guitars and now pedals with help from some musician (including Sub Pop...
The Sounds of MIM
For the last couple of weeks I’ve posted multiple videos of my 365 #AnInstrumentADay challenge that I took when I visited MIM, the Musical Instrument Museum, in Phoenix Arizona. I found out about MIM...
Record Store Day Rewind
At the beginning of living this year of music brand, Sub Pop, little did I know where this community would take me; but only 4 months into an entire year of music and I...
Homemade Jug Bands
For the last two months I’ve shopped at the Seattle Goodwill to see what I could find in the way of children’s musical instruments, which ended up being a plethora of items like drums, bells,...
Weekend Kids Rewind
When I started out playing kids musical instruments back in January, never did I imagine I’d have so many youth-based instruments that it would take me all the way into mid March! But, as...
