If you follow us on social media, you have by now seen all our posts about the upcoming 2024 Witches’ Benefit Ball on October 27th. The big day is quickly approaching, and we’ve been so awed by the local businesses and artists that have pitched in and offered their support to make this happen.

We want to talk a bit more about what the Witches’ Benefit Ball is, and what you can expect from this evening now that we are getting closer! We’ve had a ton of questions and I think it’s about time we answer some of them.

This Witches’ Benefit Ball is something we have talked about doing for YEARS and have just never had the resources to truly pull off in the way we’ve wanted. We’ve had such support and growth this year that we decided this was the year. Taylor and I cannot wait to share what we have prepared with you; and we’re very excited to see how this grows in the coming years.

We’ve wanted to host an adult only, ELEVATED witchy soiree for longer than RavenWerks has been alive. We both dreamed of something that would resonate with our friends and give us a chance to make new ones. We always an excuse to get dressed up. The idea was to create something for all of our Samhain and Halloween lovers that didn’t revolve around little kids and candy; an intimate party that calls to your inner Owens Sister. But, we also wanted to come together in a way that could be good for our community. After all, it is coming to the end of the harvest- and now it’s time to share our bounty.

What is the Witches’ Benefit Ball?

Exactly that! An evening of Cocktails, Hors d’oeuvres, Desserts, Music and activities; but with a witchy twist. We’ve had a lot of people ask if it’s a costume party- and the answer is no, not in the traditional sense. Instead, the Witches’ Benefit Ball is more like a gothic cocktail party. Dig deep into your inner Morticia and Gomez, channel your Aunt Francis and Jet, Pull out THAT dress. Now give it a magical twist and make it moody. Think like a gothic 1920’s speakeasy Gatsby party.

What to Expect at the Witches’ Benefit Ball

In addition to the small bites, witchy cocktails, pastries, photo-ops, music, and dancing (if you dare); we’re hosting a tarot reader, a best dressed competition, gifts for every attendee, a DIY floral broom station, and more. We say more because every time we think we’ve hit our cutoff- another member of our community steps forward and offers another hand- so it may very well be bigger by the big night.

A main feature of the evening is our ‘shop small’ raffle. It’s growing by the day and full of unique, handmade art from local artists, experience packages, gift cards, and other gifts from local businesses and community members. A raffle ticket is included with your ticket, but additionals are available for purchase to support our non-profits.

Who does the Witches’ Benefit Ball Help?

Community is one of our foundational pillars. Both building it and giving back to it. This is the first of what we hope is many, many fundraisers and community focused events and opportunities that we hope to create. This year’s Witches’ Benefit Ball is for two non-profit organizations that we love. 100% of the proceeds go to Sustainable Northwest and Purrfect Pals Cat Rescue. This is a completely non-profit event.

We’re also hoping it’ll will help some of our favorite local small businesses and artists to get some extra exposure as well. All of our raffle and giftbag items were donated, designed, and created by friends in Arlington and Mt. Vernon.

Sustainable Northwest:

Sustainable Northwest is a Non-profit organization that partners with communities throughout the Northwest on projects that promote smart water use, clean energy, and healthy forests, farms, and ranches.

Their solutions are as unique as the problems they solve and include entrepreneurship, policy, market innovations, public and private investment, collaboration, and technical assistance.

Sustainable Northwest was founded in 1994 to forge collaborative solutions for conserving forest and community health. Today, their challenges have multiplied with climate change, catastrophic wildfires, and persistent drought harming our region. Yet they remain optimistic that nature, people, and local economies can thrive together.

Sustainable Northwest uses every donation to help fund outreach, seminars, continuing education, policy advocation, business consultation and more in their pursuit to minimize eco footprints in a way that is beneficial for not only the environment but our businesses and communities.

Purrfect Pals Cat Rescue:

Purrfect Pals highest priority is taking in the cats and kittens who need them most… those who other shelters and rescue groups might not have the resources to help. This includes senior cats (though we prefer to call them “vintage”), cats with major medical needs, cats with chronic illnesses (including FIV and Feline Leukemia) and those with behavioral challenges.

Their cat adoption and rehabilitation programs help to place homeless cats, including those with special needs, in loving homes. We believe that every cat is adoptable; some just need more time than others to find the right match. The ultimate goal is to place them with adopters, but some might need a skilled foster family in the meantime. Purrfect Pals’ cats will always have a home with them for as long as they need it. The Purrfect Pals Sanctuary is currently home to 100+ of these special cats.

Join us for a Magickal evening.

We’d love for you to join us! If you want to learn more about the Witches’ Benefit Ball, our beneficiaries, the raffle, purrfect pals wishlist, or to purchase tickets, you can check out the event page here.

If you’d like to donate (either to the charities directly, or to the raffle), please email info@ravenwerksguild.com

You can also get sneak peeks of the event, and chat with others about it on our facebook events, as well as our instagram. We can’t wait to see you!

Happy Harvest,

Mikaela

Happy Saturday Guild Members! Today we have an exciting announcement! This year and going forward we have partnered with Emerald Hour to bring you more sustainable and mindfully focused weddings and events.

You already know that planning sustainable events is near and dear to our hearts from our previous posts on wedding sustainability and creating heirloom pieces. Our partnership with Emerald Hour will allow us to elevate that in the coming months and years.

What Emerald Hour Does

Emerald Hour Strives to build an inclusive community of environmentally mindful wedding professionals. They create and share tools and “best practices” to foster more sustainable businesses with the long-term goal of inspiring a cultural shift away from the wedding industries wasteful status quo.

Emerald Hour offers workshops for continuing education and hosts social events for vendors to meet and swap ideas. Like us, they believe we are better together and can grow more effectively when we are in collaboration instead of competition. Emerald Hour also provides a list of carefully vetted vendors with sustainable practices. They also offer a guide if you are planning an event and aren’t sure where to start.

What this Means for the Guild

Up front, this won’t change much for our clients and fellow guild members. Our current services, products, and prices won’t change. Over time, our partnership with Emerald Hour will create room to grow a more knowledgeable team. We’ll have a larger group of trusted vendors we can connect you with. A bigger support network for us, means more support for you as well.

In the coming months, it will also expand what services we are able to offer as well as elevate the level of service we currently provide. A more knowledgeable team on our end means more that we can pass on to you in every aspect of our business.

This is the next exciting step in our promise to our clients, community, and environment to continue to be better today than we were yesterday.

Planning an Event or Wedding?

We would love to chat and see if we can help you bring your vision to life! Swing by our Services page to see what we offer or reach out for a free consultation. We also highly suggest you check out Emerald Hour’s Approved Vendor List as well as their Guide of Green Swaps for couple who are in the midst of planning themselves.

We’re excited for a greener future. We’ll see you on the battlefield!

All the best,

Mikaela & Taylor

Happy July Guild Members! Today is the perfect day to talk about one specific section of our business that is near and dear to my heart: sustainable weddings. Specifically, creating reusable and heirloom pieces for your wedding or event. I touched on this in our wedding sustainability post, but I chatted with a bride the other day and she brought it to my attention that not a lot of people understand what I mean right away.

So What Do I Mean?

One of the questions we get most often is “What do you ladies do?”. With everything RavenWerks does and offers, it can be a challenge to describe all our hopes and dreams in a few sentences. Partially because we cover a lot, partially because said hopes and dreams are BIG, and partially because we don’t yet have the brick-and-mortar space to be able to showcase everything in one place. What it really boils down to though is that we are in the business of sustainable service to people. That can be hard to define because people are unique, and our approach to each service or event is as unique as the people we serve.

Trying to reduce that down to any one part of the whole is a challenge, especially when we’re the kind of people that believe that what we’re really building is a community and a culture- not a business. Communities are complex and cover a lot of things: so do we.

One of the services we currently offer, will continue to offer as we develop our event venue is helping you design your wedding space. Part of how we do that is by working with couples to create things that can be used as part of your wedding day, but also serve a purpose afterwards. This can be as simple as being home decor you actually like but can also include functional home pieces. It is one of the things I love most about what we do. Sustainable Weddings and events are kind of our thing.

The “Throw Away” Problem: Why Sustainable Weddings Are Important

One great way to reduce the impact of hosting a wedding is to forgo single use culture. The number of friends I knew that had to do the “post-wedding purge” or dump run, genuinely blew my mind. The amount of décor for a wedding day vibe that gets thrown away a day later is just mind boggling. Thus, this part of our event services was born.

The “Heirloom Pieces” Solution

So how do you create an elevated, personalized, intentional setting without all the throw away? By making it truly personal. Make sure that the theme and décor are reflective of you and your partner. Select pieces that have functional longevity. Creating sustainable weddings just requires a bit more intentionality, but it can frequently save you money in addition to helping the planet.

We help couples choose, design, and create things that are functional later in life. This can either be for you and your partner or for your guests depending on your needs. If creativity is not your strong suit- this is where we come in. We talk to you about your theme or style, your budget, lifestyle and living space, and your goals. Then, we design pieces that elevate your wedding day décor with unmatched attention to detail and a focus on sustainability.

Do you want something that can be repurposed into something else? We do that. Maybe you want something that is immediately usable as home décor afterwards. We do that. Maybe you want something that you canpass down to your kids as a family heirloom? No need to pressure them to wear your gown. We do that. Whatever it is- you want it to reflect who you are as a couple. And you certainly want it to be memorable for your guests and look professional.

What does this look like?

If we can’t be involved in curating the sustainable wedding celebration of your dreams, or if you’re more of a DIY’er, we can still help. Below are some ideas of what this can look like so you can get your own creative juices flowing. Some of these require design and crafting, but a number of them just require an intentional vision and a little planning.

Custom Designed Heirloom Frames:

During the wedding, the frames were used for all signage and some photos. The couple later used them to hang their wedding photos around their house since they matched their style of decor.

Custom Heirloom Guest Book

Our couple wanted a guest book that would also be their wedding album. They wanted enough space left in it to become a scrapbook for all the things they would do together in life later. This ensured it didn’t just sit on a shelf somewhere and would instead be looked back on and updated regularly.

The guest book portion we scrapbooked with selected pictures of the couple and on-theme pieces so guests could sign around them. Then they had the remainder of the book to fill out with their lives as they move forward.

Custom Heirloom Lanterns

One of our favorites was an evening wedding in the woods. We designed a set of lanterns spilling with moss, ferns, and mushrooms with little LED candles. The bride’s maids carried these in lieu of flowers. it looked stunning in the ceremony and the bridesmaids got to keep them afterwards (it was a very tight-knit group of friends that all had very similar style).

Garden Centerpieces

One of our couples was really into gardening and they were having an outdoor garden party themed wedding. We sourced local handmade garden stakes shaped like mushrooms and butterflies as part of their centerpieces. The bride now has them in her garden at home. She also requested garden gnomes hidden around the venue that are now in her garden as well.

Thrifted Colored Carnival Glass Pieces

This couple was having a 70’s themed wedding and they wanted LOTS of color. The bride loved antiquing and owned a small collection of colored glass cups that they were using for the head table. We got to enjoy the challenge of finding more pieces exclusively from second hand stores. Pieces ranged from vases and candle holders to serving dishes and trivets. These were used for centerpieces and tableware that fit the couple’s home décor so they could use them afterwards.

Thrifted Period Furniture

One of my favorites was a bride that wanted antique style bridal portraits and a sitting space for her guests to take elegant and elevated photos. Very Edwardian style. We found an amazing settee at a thrift store and were able to design a “private photo area.” It reused a piece of furniture, and the couple now has a permanent piece of their wedding in their living room!

Collectible Cake Toppers

Forget the plastic “I do” word or the generic bride and groom statues. We love when couples request things they collect so they can save them forever. Everything from pez dispensers, pocket dragons, and smurfs, to precious moments statues and Disney collectibles. This is a great subtle way to show style and personality without having to necessarily commit to a full theme.

Dress trimmings

This sounds weird. But, almost all wedding gowns need to be altered to fit properly and that almost always involves a hem. Don’t throw your fabric away. Partner with a seamstress to have scrunchies or bows made so you can keep a usable piece of your dress even if you don’t keep your gown.

If you are a Washington local- especially in the Skagit Valley area, we highly recommend the team at The Town Seamstress. This is something Kristin and her team offer as part of their regular services.

Custom Shoes

There are a number of ways to do this, and it may sound out of place on a decor list. But working in bridal alterations, I learned some things. It shocked me the number of ladies that go out and buy “bridal shoes” that aren’t particularly comfortable, or close to their usualy style just to fit a perfect vibe the day of, and then never wear them again.

We have now helped two brides take plain elegant white/ ivory shoes and add a little pizzaz too them so that they showed some personality. My favorite pair was a set of white ballet flats that we embroidered little vines and wild flowers along the edges of.

Decorative Fabric Recycled Clothing

This was by far one of the most abstract and cool things we’ve ever had a couple request. They had fabric draped in trees with flower garlands and they didn’t want to throw away the fabric afterwards. We turned the fabric into a skirt and matching vest for the couple that they can wear whenever they want (they wanted to be able to wear them for anniversaries and we think this is just adorable).

Heriloom Guestbook Ornaments

We had a couple that really loved Christmas. They planned a winter wedding, and wanted to keep everything in natural woods and deep ever greens; as rustic and woody as possible (very Scandanavian/ Nordic style). Instead of a guestbook we placed little flat wooden ornaments at each place setting with the request that each guest sign one and write a little blessing or piece of advice for the couple. At the end of the night we collected them and now the bride and groom have fun looking at them every year when they put up their tree.

Silk Flower Chandeliers

While we prefer realy flowers 90% of the time, silk flowers have a time and a place when used correctly. We’ve had several brides request fake flowers for ceiling décor day of. This prevents all chances of wilting and falling apart, and they make great “chandeliers” as decor at home afterwards.

Custom Candle Centerpieces

You can go any direction or theme with these. We’ve both seen and done them many ways. White candles with flowers, colored candles, carved candles. tapers, pillars, a mix of both. When the day is done- blow them out, take them home, and burn through them slowly. I’ve even seen them used as party favors afterwards.

Quirky planters

The couple really loved house plants because they didn’t have a yard. Their venue was a ballroom with minimal décor and they didn’t want to have cut flowers that would wilt and need to be thrown away. We sourced a mix of thrifted planters from small businesses in their wedding colors and filled them with a variety of cat-safe houseplants (which was very important to them). These became centerpieces and décor around the ballroom, making for an unconventional but much more “alive” space than before; and the couple got to take their plants home at the end of the day.

Curated China

Have a micro wedding? One couple asked us to help them find a specific aesthetic of china for a tiny but luxurious evening dinner wedding so that they could keep the dishes and make that their nice set that they could eventually pass down to their children since neither of them had any family that they would inherit that kind of thing from. The phrase the couple used to describe what they were looking for was ‘old money mobster’, and honestly- it was kind of perfect.

Harry Potter themed hanging chandeliers/ mobiles.

One for each guest table hung from the ceiling. The couple wanted to match the theme of their wedding but have something they could hang in the children’s bedroom someday as they knew they wanted kids. It was important to them to design them to be more like fine-art as a way to elevate their wedding. No one could possibly ever call their day juvenile. This event was honestly a fantasy lovers gothic evening dream- not a party city vibe anywhere in site.

Crystalized book art

At the groom’s request, we crystalized a hardcover, thrifted copy of his favorite book, in borax; and then turned it into a centerpiece for the head table. He’d seen the idea on Pinterest and thought it looked really cool but didn’t have time to try and create one himself. He wanted to keep it as art for the shelf in his study after their wedding. This project always makes me smile because I felt a bit like I was creating real magic at the time- my inner alchemist had a blast.

The Point

The possibilities are endless, and these are just some of our favorite requests, ideas, and previous projects. The overarching important thing is how possible it is to create a memorable day and experience, while still minimizing the impact on the planet and reducing how much you throw away as a by-product of your celebration in a way that allows you to hold on to the magic of the day for a long time afterwards.

There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with creating a stunning, intentional, visually magical experience for your wedding day. You can have beautiful decor and add personal touches and little flourishes. We want you too. That’s what weddings are supposed to be: intentional, meaningful, personal, reflective of your relationship.

Designing sustainable weddings doesn’t mean you have to forgo all of the little extras and details. What’s important is to make sure that things aren’t done needlessly or wastefully, and doesn’t add to the “single use” problem. Go for things that have overlapping or adaptable uses, and things that you will cherish for the rest of your life, or at least the rest of the objects life if it’s something that can wear out.

Reach Out About Designing Sustainable Weddings

Have ideas or inquiries? Leave a comment, visit our services page, or us the “contact us” page to reach out! If you are trying to plan sustainable weddings nd are a washington resident we also always highly recommend looking into or working with a company like Emerald Hour to find other vendors that commit to eco-friendly practices.

All the best,

Mikaela

What is Ostara?

Not to be confused with the Christian Holiday of Easter, Ostara is the festival of growth, new beginnings and the dawning of a new season of life. It is traditionally the celebration of the vernal equinox, a sign that truly warmer days are ahead. A time to plan the upcoming season of hard work.  

While there are some symbolic overlaps in the celebrating of Easter and Ostara, they take place several weeks apart and celebrate two very different things. For those that follow the Christian Faith, Easter celebrates the rebirth of Christ. The spring Equinox has been known by many names: Ostara (Germanic), Eostre (Saxon), No Ruz (Persian) etc. Ostara has been celebrated in one form or another for hundreds of years, evolving and changing as civilizations grew and moved. 

Through the evolution of language, and the migration of beliefs many people came to celebrate Ostara and Eostre as one in the same: a time to rejoice, to honor Eostre: the goddess of the dawn, spring and fertility. Some religious studies even suggest that whilst the Easter holiday celebrates something entirely different, the Christian church adopted a similar name during their attempt to convert pagans to Christianity.  

There is even overlap in the symbolism behind the Painted eggs, and the Easter Bunny, but we’ll get to that in a later post because the evolution of legends and beliefs is one of my favorite topics, and the Easter Bunny is a fascinating tale.  

Celebrating at home is easy and doesn’t have to be a massive production. We’ve included some of our favorite ideas below, some are even things you can do in groups or with family, while others are more suited for those of you that want solitude. 

Ways to Celebrate:  

Painting Eggs

This is an old tradition, one with a lot of overlap to Easter and many of the Slavic nations. Grandma never had time to paint her own eggs but both her and mom had a knack for collecting intricately designed or carved decorative eggs that we always loved when we were kids. Still, hand painting or even using a dye kit can be a fun family exercise or a crafting challenge if you are more detail oriented like my sister. If you get really into it, it can also be a great way to meditate and use the power of intention setting.  

Arranging Flowers & Your ‘Hearth Space’

This is another amazing intention setting tool. Taking the time to select the flowers that represent the things you want to manifest, speaking positivity and energy into them while you arrange them, allowing color and new life into your home. 

Prep Your Garden, Spend Time With Your Plants (setting intentions while you do so)

Are you noticing a theme here? A large portion of my home practices rely strongly on mindfulness and intentionality.  Finding the magic in every day processes gives you a never-ending pool of energy to pull from. Spring is a great time to refresh your soil, nudge awake your perennial friends and plant your annual guests. I find this to be a quiet, peaceful, and reflective time. Relaxing instrumental music and some fresh air help clear my mind and setting my intentions with my plants gives me a great way to channel and manifest growth. A fun exercise is assigning a purpose or focus to each plant in my garden. If I want to grow in a personal relationship, I spend a little more time with that plant. If I want to grow my focus, I spend a bit more time with that plant. 

Herb Wreathes & Floral Wreathes

I have several grapevine wreathes hung in entry ways and doorways around the house. I switch out the flowers and herbs tucked into them from time to time to refresh the flow of energy and reflect the current season. It gives me a chance to use my creative side and adds a personalized welcoming touch to our space. I believe homes should be a representation of the people that live there, and I want the people that come to visit us to know that we put thought into welcoming them into our space. 

Alter Updates

Spring flowers (avoid lilies if you have a cat that likes to chew on plants), painted eggs, or decorative eggs, carvings or figures of rabbits and hares. The goddess Eostre was considered a guardian of portals, often depicted with keys hanging from her belt, old skeleton keys make great decorations for your Alter. Focus on whites, Yellows and Greens in your candles. Moonstone, Amethyst and Quartz make great energy focuses this month. If you like to include plants or spices look to primroses, clover, dogwood, daffodils, and tulips. Incense commonly include rosewood, vervain, violet, myrrh, geranium and jasmine. 

Pack Away Cold Weather Clothing

This is an easy mild way to do some spring cleaning. It also opens up your mind to the changing of the seasons and helps remove clutter and mess and focus down your needs. I am an advocate for as little clutter as possible. Clutter makes me feel overwhelmed. This is the part of the year to emerge from winter hibernation, shed your unnecessary layers and simplify. Tucking away heavy, bulky clothing you won’t need until next winter season is a good way to facilitate that mentality shift.  

Take a Floral Milk Bath

Self Care is important, and while self-care is not always bubble baths and face masks, taking a quiet evening for yourself- even if its just an hour to soak is a great way to refresh yourself. Keep your eye out for the post I’ll be making about a fun spring milk bath recipe you can try. This is really much easier than it sounds. It’s a lot of fun, and again, a great way to bring mindfulness into your life. 

Smudge & Cleanse

This is a time to renew and energize. That includes your home and your sacred space as well. You can make your own smudge or buy one from a reputable vendor, words are not necessary, but you can also set the boundaries and intentions of your home this way. I start at the heart of my home and work my way outward to each room, finishing with all the exterior points of entry into the house. Starting at the center for me is symbolic of renewing the heart of my home or my ‘hearth center’ and pushing all the negativity outward. My favorite invocation to use for this (once the smudge is lit) is ‘Smoke of Fire, and Water, and Earth cleanse this home and cleanse this hearth. Drive away All hate and fear; only good may enter here.’ I repeat this as I move from room to room. Its meditative and helps focus your intentions and energy.  

Dawn Ceremony

On the morning of Ostara wake up early (before the sun rises). Put on a pot of coffee or tea (I prefer a floral tea for this occasion). Find a quiet place to sit and meditate while you watch the Eastern horizon, again I prefer to do this outside in the quiet, but a nice large window will do. Sit, enjoy the sunrise, greet the day, and set your intentions. 

Ostara Baking

I am, at the end of the day, a house witch, and I work best with food. You can put a lot of emotion and intention into food when you cook. It is my way of nurturing those I love and showing them I care. I find peace in it, and to me a welcome home is always warm and smells of bread. An Ostara favorite of mine is Sourdough Rosemary Buns- again, I plan on sharing this recipe soon; but any form of seasonal cooking will do. Think about your goals for the upcoming season as you prepare your Ostara meal. I have included our menu this year as an example.  

Our Ostara Feast: 

• Berry and mixed greens salad 
• Hard boiled- painted eggs 
• Kielbasa 
• Pierogi 
• Sourdough rolls 
• Vanilla Bavarian cream filled Packzki 

Remember…

Spirituality is a personal journey. It is your journey and nobody else’s. How you choose to experience it is up to you. These are just ideas, here to help you if you are new and feeling overwhelmed by the possibilities. Go with what resonates with you, you could pick one, you could pick ten. You could use none of these, but let it spark something else.  

We always love to see how you make something your own. So Celebrate! We also welcome you to chime in- suggest the things you love to do.  

All the best, Always, 

Mikaela.  

Tervetuloa! We cannot tell you how excited we are to unofficially welcome you to our growing community! We have such high hopes for this part of our platform and all great journeys must start with great intentions, so we wanted to take a few moments to share with you our intentions for this space.  

Our goal for RavenWerks Guild as a whole is for it to be a community of acceptance and learning. Our long-term vision is to buy a piece of property to be able to bring you an amazing multi-purpose creative space. A place where we can all finally come together in person to make crafts, test projects, learn things, host events, and meet new friends.  

As part of this journey, we plan to share crafts, culture, projects, events, tutorials, and host conversations through a variety of platforms. We want you to feel like you can take us with you everywhere. We want you to see and experience this journey right along with us.  

This blog is just one more exciting way for us to let you hear our voice. As excited as we are for videos and in person events- we feel like we get to know a person differently through the written word (call us crazy, but we tend to read things in character- we play too much D&D).  

This blog is also meant to focus more on the education side of this journey. While our videos and events and tutorials provide an awesome way to interact with you daily, this blog will hopefully turn into a growing source of information that you can refer back to if ever necessary. As we delve into topics and research things we want to know more about or want to try; we plan to share what we learn with you. This will be the place to come for the facts and history behind some of our projects, re-creations, and experiments. 

Join us as we learn about and share what we already know about a variety of topics. Our hope is to cover everything from cultural recipes to different holidays basis in a myriad of religions and how things came to be the way they are now, history and lore. We’ll explore certain forms of crafting & DIY, runology, tarot, herbalism, Sustainability, Upcycling, gardening and most important of all: How it’s all connected. 

We both sincerely hope that this will add value to your life in some way, and that you enjoy it just as much as we do. All we ask in return is that you come into this space with an open mind and a willingness to learn as well as possibly to teach (after all, we certainly have a lot to learn). So grab a drink and a comfy chair, and please don’t ever be afraid to chime in or reach out.  

We’ll see you on the journey!  

All the best, Always, 

Taylor and Mikaela