The Shadow Journal is where the quieter parts of this work are kept.

It is a place for reflections on making — on growing plants, sourcing materials, formulating products, and living alongside the rhythms that shape them. Here I share what I notice as I move between garden, studio, body, and home: the small decisions, the long processes, the seasons that inform the work long before anything is finished or offered.

I write from within practice. From time spent with plants and soil, with oils and extracts, with skin and its needs. From travel and sourcing — from walking rose fields, meeting growers, learning directly from materials and places. From the ongoing dialogue between nature and science, and my deep respect for how both can work together to support the body.

Some entries may touch on formulation, skin biology, or the way certain plants and compounds behave — not as lessons, but as observations gathered through use, study, and repetition. I share what I am learning as a formulator and a maker, in the same way I share what I am growing, harvesting, tending, and returning to.

This journal is not a course, and it is not a teaching space in the traditional sense. It is a living record of how the work evolves — shaped by motherhood, by care, by restraint, and by the desire to make things that genuinely support the body over time.

What is written here is offered in the spirit of continuity rather than performance.

Of staying close to the work.

Of letting beauty emerge through attention, patience, and honest engagement with materials.

This is a place to document what is being lived — slowly, thoughtfully, and with devotion.