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Tara
Namaste, yogis!
This month I’ve partnered up with Buddhi Box + 4 other amazing, beautiful, goddess yogi’s to bring you the April Buddhi Box reveal.
Buddhi Box is a monthly Yoga box subscription created and curated by my good friend Maxine Chapman. Maxine is an empowered woman, a vibrant light, and a dedicated yoga teacher here in sunny San Diego. She’s determined to bring you the absolute best for your yoga practice, health and wellness journey. I shared some of my favorite parts of April’s box this month with Maxine and some of our other incredible friends at Pura Vida Yoga Studio in San Diego.
Buddhi Box was kind enough to use my song Wake Up, as the background music for the April reveal as well.
Check it out!
After months and months of hard work and an amazing collaboration with my friend Scott A Woodward from across the globe, ICONS is out, with my brand new song The End featured (almost the full song can be found on the BTS video!) Check out this incredible homage to your favorite photographers! This is a beautiful, amazing, creative project and I couldn’t be happier to be a part of it!!
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Read all about how Scott came to find and include The End in this awesome project here.
I am so excited to finally share this with you! Hope you’re all having a marvelous February so far!
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I like my commitments to be far-reaching into my life. When I decided to move, I didn’t just move a little bit. A state or two away. I moved all the way across the country (if I went any farther I’d be in Japan). Go hard or go home, y’dig?
Since the majority of my life, if I can help it, is “green”, organic or natural in some way, and Music is such a huge part of it, I’ve been trying to “Go Green” Musically for awhile now.
What that meant, exactly, I wasn’t sure.
Until I found Handmade Straps!
( Clearly “going green” didn’t mean “wearing your hair in a messy bun while you play”. I got that one down years ago. 😛 )
Handmade Straps are a wonderful commitment to craft and quality for your music gear ( also available for Ukulele, Banjo and Mandolin if Guitar isn’t your thing!) They’re completely handmade with love in the United States, sustainable, they’re beautiful, 1 of a kind and there’s only a limited number of them! Also, you’ll be supporting small business, which is one of the most rewarding things that one can do as a Musician (or consumer).
These are my first new straps in a long, long, long (did I mention long?) time, and I’m super proud of them! In the past I’ve had kinda cheap leather straps (not the most comfortable if you’re a tiny person playing for a long time) and me and Josh have shared his embarrassingly old First Act strap for almost 3 years now.
Someone always comments about how wonderful and comfortable my Handmade Straps look ( they really are!) and the straps, myself and my guitars were absolutely made for one another. Both the straps are really amazing quality, soft, and durable. Never mind the exquisite and unique patterns that just go on and on for days!
So, what do you need to know if you wanna get your Handmade Strap on?
Founder and Creator Amanda Brewer and I have outlined some good reasons to pick one up today:
– There’s a limited number of each strap made. Amanda says, “Working with the textile industry, fabrics are designed, produced and “retired” before you can say go! Often, I’ll find a really great fabric, buy as much of it as I can, and when it’s gone, that’s it, it’s gone! Maybe only 30 straps in that particular pattern will exist in the world, FOREVER! So, when you see a strap you love, buy it! Don’t wait, thinking it will still be available in 2 months for your girlfriend to buy as a birthday gift for you.”
– They are made in the USA by very few, real people (usually just Amanda!)
– You’ll be supporting an extremely unique and wonderful small business!
– There are straps for Ukulele, Banjo, Guitars, Mandolin, and there are leather strap options as well!
– The straps are made from Polypropylene Webbing – tough stuff! It would take over 1,500 pounds of force to break this webbing!
– Vinyl lines the inside of each end piece made from premium suede leather to resist stretching and hold up to years of use. If you’d prefer vinyl ends, just ask Amanda!
– Fabric on the outside of the straps is reinforced with a stabilizer for durability and not only looks great but makes the guitar straps more comfortable than webbing alone and more breathable than straps made of nylon or seat-belt material.
I am rocking Handmade Straps in Flower Child and Ocean Paisley.
Happy Playing!
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It’s been over a month since my birthday (oops!) but I’ve really wanted to share it because it was action-packed and involved travel, the beach, camping, hiking, great food, the puppy and I was so prepared this time around!
Josh and I spent the day at the beach in Malibu the day of my birthday morning and it was just lovely!
^^ beautiful California drives .. anywhere … make me happy ^^
^^ beautiful sky reflections… ^^
^^ puppy got a bath! ^^
^^ epic work outs vs epic reads 😉 ^^
Last year I started my first birthday tradition: camping in California!
Last Year, let’s call it: Year 1, Josh and I had never camped before, and for some reason didn’t really research anything about camping before we walked 5 miles up (and down) a mountain, set up our tent, and realized when it was pitch black that we didn’t know how to make a fire and had barely brought any food! We had also brought the dog, dog food, and plenty of water for her, but we forgot to bring her any toys or treats! Thanks to the kindness of strangers (Bear, we will never forget you) not only did we get taught some kick-ass wilderness skills on the fly (seriously… it was pitiful) but we were forever grateful and were sure to do our due diligence this time around.
We’ve hiked quite a bit since then, and we now live in the same mountains that we camped in last year. I’ve started more fires in my fireplace in the new house last Winter than I care to even remember (it’s not so fun when you actually really need it for heat!), so we were much more prepared for Year 2!
The first perfect thing Josh found was the camping spot itself. Point Mugu is listed on almost every “Best Hiking Trail” list, not only in California, but on practically the whole internet. The amazing reviews about this place just go on and on!
It’s located in Malibu in the Santa Monica Mountains, features five miles of ocean shoreline, with rocky bluffs, sandy beaches, sand dunes, rugged hills and uplands, two major river canyons and wide grassy valleys dotted with sycamores, oaks and a few native walnuts. There are more than 70 miles of hiking trails. The beach also features swimming, body surfing and surf fishing. The park includes the jagged pinnacles of the Boney Mountains State Wilderness Area.
Plus, it’s dog friendly!
Basically, it’s right up my alley. 🙂
There must have recently been a forest fire, because all of the trees were black and burned up, but in this absolutely breathtaking way there was greenery growing on the underside of every plant! So, so amazing! I love seeing signs of new life!
There are infinite hiking trails to go on, so we were always on some kind of epic adventure! Josh wandered off a time or two to tackle some hikes I was just plain not prepared for, but we both ended up with crazy beautiful views over the mountains and to the sea! What we planned to be a surveying hike took us over an hour, and I could have gone for way longer if we weren’t getting so hungry that we eventually turned around for the sake of filling our bellies! A Park Ranger wagged their finger that you’re not technically “supposed” to bring the dog (oops again!) but we did anyway, and she was fabulous and we had a wonderful time.
^^ more signs of new life! ^^
It’s incomprehensibly vast when you get up the hiking trail and realize how far you are up the mountain. Especially incomprehensible when you first see the sea. Before that it just looks like layers and layers of mountains. One of the first things we mentioned was “Can you imagine what it would be like for the first people who ever discovered this?”
Just. Wow.
I am so grateful to have had the adventure!
After our hike we cooked up some grub and went out to get some last minute supplies. On our way back we saw the most amazing neon pink, orange, blue, purple, green gorgeous sunset and stopped along the way on some adjacent sea mountains to get a good view and watch it go down!
As if the night couldn’t get any better, we cooked up some s’mores for dessert, played guitar and fell asleep under the stars to the sound of the waves!
The next morning we woke up super early and headed down to the beach with puppy.
^^ these two just kill me… ^^
There was no one down there, and she loved it! She chased the waves… the waves chased her… we chased her… she chased us… 🙂 A dog’s paradise!
When we got in the car Raelie immediately fell asleep so fast her face was hanging over the edge of the seat like this:
Too cute! 🙂
I really had an incredible, amazing time and I can’t wait to do it again! I hope to go back many times before the year is up and I can’t wait to recommend Point Mugu to everyone living! I really had the most incredibly beautiful birthday and I feel very grateful for it.
Happy and healthy life!
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