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10/06/2025

10/4/2025 🎂

Within a couple of hours of being born, this little one lay beside me in the hospital, her eyes already wide and scanning the new world around her. There’s not a single thing this wild child has not taken to in her own time, something I learned very quickly as parental chatter focused in on milestones and sleeping habits. This babe was not to be tamed by trainings and tutorials, but rather listened to and guided through each wobbly step. No milestone could match the fire which radiated from her as her little soul grew to become one of the most treasured things my world has known.

She feels with every beat of her heart, laughs with the greatest echo of joy and her eyes sparkle with earthly browns in the shape of tear drop gemstones. I’ve watched her trusting hands grip my pinky to my palms as I’ve led her through really dark days to crashing ocean waves. She is bred from all that is beautiful in this world, even when the world challenges this with its darkness - And yet she pierces these blackened skies with stardust.

She is my Amelie Ping. My wild and challenging girl, a creature whose curiousity has brought her an elite appetite, so many adventures and friends at every Cafe she’s entered. Celebrating your birthday is my most favourite of days, because it’s the day this chapter book began.

Happiest of days ahead, my darling girl. Time for cake and pastries xx

(Some HUNTR/X 🎵 for babe 🫰🏼)

03/28/2025

I need seasons in my life.
For my body to feel the warm and the cold.
For my soul to take root and take rest.
To be challenged to adapt and refresh.
I need it all.
New seasons are approaching, and much change to come.
Excited, thankful.
Terrified, uncertain.
But in the end, I need it all.
xo

02/07/2025

I celebrated my birthday a couple weeks ago. It was a bit of a flurry as it lead into a trip to England a few days later to visit family and explore. But I did do my best to acknowledge and celebrate everything I’ve worked through over the past several years, and the fact that everything I’ve worked towards now sits bubbling right in front of me.

This year marks 10 years in Ohio. It marks 10 years in navigating a surprising career in immigration (I hail from a Fine Arts background.. there are no straight lines in my life story :)) It marks a journey of growing my family in a place I’ve consistently felt isolated - that is, until this past year. To those who know me best or those who welcomed vulnerable chats, the past 5 years have been filled with a lot of contradicting trauma and joy. Needless to say, for many years here there was no version of myself that could be authentically present in society or friendly circles because I was genuinely stumbling through my own survival plan.

Currently reading “All About Love”, Hooks reminds me of the mind games I’ve been dismantling for the past few years and the life I now choose to manifest forward. And annually I choose to celebrate such love - towards community, womanhood, family and most vulnerably, myself. So thank you to all of those who shared their well wishes, surprised me with cakes and offerings, and most especially, spotlighted the unapologetic spirit that leads my every move.

Cheers to me, cheers disrupting the patriarchy, and cheers to you x

📸
1 - Beach walks.
2 - Gym selfie.
3 - Oz giggles.
4 - January babe.
5 - (de)Caffeinated.
6 - I like food.
7 - I grew the best human on earth.
8 - Elope.
9 - Puff puff in France.
10 - When a Victor Victoria self-portrait project taught me I would have made a very pretty dude.
11 - A winter season working in the French Alps.
12 - I befriended my HS janitor and he would unlock the gym for me to shoot hoops at lunch and after school.
13 - always a pretty face.
14 - Little me. Always a force.
15 - Allo ✌🏼

12/31/2024

2024 ✨

This was the year that I started making space for peace and healing, while also opening up space for joy and excitement. I’ve found myself more at ease with vulnerability and authentic moments; Goodness and kindness, but doing away with niceties.

Cheers to anyone I’ve shared spaces with, shared conversations with - in brief or at length, and made memories with. These passings have left lasting imprints since my soul tends to find impact in authenticity. From cups of coffee or breaking bread, random texts/DMs or playground meet ups - they’ve all been beautiful.

Byyyeeeee xo

12/09/2024

11/6 - 11/20 🇺🇸 🇶🇦 🇦🇺
Me + babe.
40 hour journey there.
32 hour adventure back.
A surprise visit for the youngest sibling with help from the oldest.
1-week to plan.
3 weeks of accumulated jet lag.
✌🏼

09/18/2024

Life lately. x
Market fruit.
Best macarons in [insert anywhere].
Homemade pizzas.
Free hoops now my hoops
Spice up your life.
Mini hooper.
Fave Turkish food in college. Still fave Turkish food.
Cat naps.
J’adore. Le sport.

06/29/2024

The past few months x

02/07/2024

Goodnight moon x

01/23/2024

Cheers for the birthday wishes, near and far. I took a couple days off work to reflect and enjoy xx
(Captions to photos below.)

1. Facial at never fails to be anything short of beautiful ♥️

2. This fox in the snow got a lovely Capp from . See what I did there.. heh heh

3. Solo matinee at the to finally catch . Absolutely beautiful. Cried while reflecting on the loss of my own parent in my early years, but also on my woven presence in parenthood today. Just stunning.

4. Cards from afar and gifts that my daughter PROMISED were not legos. Spoiler: they were legos! She wanted to gift me a toy for both of us to play with. ♥️

5. Deep tissue Massage . Just lovely.

6. Spent a morning at my local library and checked out a lovely novel before heading to for my Aussie Capp.

7. The most delicious meal at . If you’ve yet to try it - go get it. However I felt horribly underdressed sitting next to this stunner…

8. Always appreciate snow on my birthday. I adore it greatly. Something about the stillness and chill that makes me feel like I can breathe in and feel the life still brewing inside me ♥️ ❄️

01/01/2024

Embrace the small moments -

The moments that didn’t cost a fortune or tick a box off the bucket list;

The moments where you merely felt the sunlight coming through your kitchen, or sat to dinner with loved ones;

The days where you poured that cup of coffee and turned the pages of an old book;

The weeks where sadness and stress took over, but in that alone, you knew that life was lived and growth was afoot;

The months that blend together with play and love, daily hugs and hellos;

Those small moments that no one asks about because it’s not deemed collectively extraordinary but merely beautiful in the eyes of the beholder.

Here’s to more authentic moments, relationships, conversations and growth. Bonjour Janvier x

12/24/2023

Leftover cookie dough massacre.

Standing here in my small, sufficient kitchen. Where the surfaces need dusted and my mood is nothing short of ordinary. And my daughter refuses to where clothes.

No matter where you celebrate it, if you celebrate it, and/or who you celebrate/not celebrate it with - here’s wishing you happily curated chaos doing whatever brings you joy. x

12/01/2023

A December Friday x

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