finding whimsey

Making Magic

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My name is Leanna, I’m a stay-at-home mom and seeker of magic in the big and little moments of life. I love reading and creating and spending time with my family. What was once a website for my small shop, has slowly morphed over the past few years into a digital catalogue of my personal projects, family vacations, and home decor.

When Covid hit, I was a stay-at-home mom with four kids under the age of seven. My side-hustle Etsy shop had just started taking off; to the point that when the shutdown happened and all my kids were sent home from school and daycare, I was having to stay up into the early hours of the morning every night just to keep on top of orders coming through. Then the stress caught up with me. I got sick. An undiagnosed stomach issues landed me in the hospital and I was told I needed to get a handle on my stress levels. With four kids home all day and no end in sight with the lockdown, we made the difficult decision to close the shop. Temporarily.

Silver linings came in the form of rediscovering lost passions. I started reading fantasy books again; a first love of sorts that had been forgotten during my college years when university workload dominated my leisure time. It was inspiring. Like a rediscovery of self. During a time when everything felt heavy and hard, I realized what we really needed was something whimsical and light. We needed something magical. So that year was the first year we celebrated Yule, Hogwarts-style.

I finally realized I just didn’t care anymore what anyone else thought. I didn’t care if it was good for Etsy in product photos or Instagram (how I had originally made a lot of my sales). I wanted to do something that was authentic. Something just for my family, that we would love. That would bring us joy and light in a year that had felt very dark.

It unlocked something in me that I hadn’t realized I’d been smothering for so long. If you follow me on social media, you know that I’ve gone even harder in the years since. Leaning into the whimsical, the magical, the nerdy, and the just-a-little-bit weird. If that’s your vibe, I hope you’ll come follow along.

 

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