dream a little dream with me
Welcome to my… space! Not my MySpace because I can’t get into my account from high school (RIP) but this is the next best thing! At the ripe ol’ age of nearly-35, I am embarking on a grand adventure: building a business! With a website! Pretending I know things! Sharing things I know and like with the world! Prioritizing my creativity and passions! Spending time on… myself??? I guess??? (As a mom of two kiddos under four, this is a new concept for me.)
Anyways, welcome! I’m so chuffed you’re here. ]
“What is here? Mauri, where am I?!” You’re in my blog! How 2011 of me, right? I was just realizing I have a lot of ideas to share, and I needed to place for those ideas to live. So this is my blog and also my ideas living room. I plan to share some fun ways to interact with flowers, details of the events I work on, musings about life as a young teenage mom mother in her mid-thirties, and more.
For now, how about a lil’ introduction? Hi, I’m Maurianna. I was born in California but grew up in the Pacific Northwest and spent my summers doing theatre camps and sailing around the San Juan Islands and the Gulf Islands with my family. My college years were spent in Southern California, making documentaries and traveling the world. But I was called back to the PNW to be near to dear friends and, of course, my family. I started working for an arts education nonprofit and mentoring for Young Women Empowered on the weekends. Next up was a full-time position at the theatre I grew up in, managing their education programs. I have dedicated most of my adult life to youth-development organizations and I wouldn’t change that for anything. Working with kids is a core element of my being. I hope to bridge my love of flowers with kid-centered events in the future (hello flower crown birthday parties!).
In 2015 I met my husband, Danny bee. We were married in a tiiiiiny ceremony in July of 2020 and had our first baby in June of 2021 :’) We now have TWO beautiful boys. Becoming a mom during Covid lockdown was both cozy and terrifying. My anxiety went through the roof. By the end of 2021 I was needing a creative outlet (and needing to remember my SELF), so I began designing and selling floral centerpieces.
