• My Tivaevae

    Progress > Pretty

    I wanted to set up my camera with good light and take a pretty photo because that’s what ya do for the gram, right? 🤷🏽‍♀️ But also, who has time for that?! Not I! At least, not right now. Right now my life is teaching prep and writing a survey for work and editing wedding videos and showing up for my family+friends and my community and and and and… Tivaevae is a handful of high value minutes to step away from the computer. An invitation to try to remember how to breath. To get out of the ephemeral digital spaces,…

  • My Tivaevae

    Habits of creation

    This is how I’ve been spending a couple nights a week since mid-June. Stitching away and watching The Americans (just started season 4!). When I picked sewing back up last month I set a goal to have…

  • My Tivaevae

    Designing a pattern

    I got a little ahead of myself last week. Before picking colors or fabric, step 1 was: What is this tivaevae going to be about? I wanted a design that connected the Cook Islands (my father’s birthplace),…

  • Culture

    Stitched with Love

    Enjoy this lovely video posted by Te Papa Museum! “It’s my grandma, she presented me with a tivaevae and said, ‘You remember this. I sew it with my hands and all the stitches that I have done,…

  • Film Update

    KNX Radio Feature

    Guess what?! We’re on the radio this weekend! KNX 1070 reporter Ron Kilgore did a feature on our Seed&Spark campaign and the piece will be airing throughout the weekend. Listen online here to see if you can…