Kristie G… full time hairdresser, part time baker. My exact job title for 17+ years. Creator of all things beautiful. Whether it be behind the chair or behind the oven. I have always been a creative person by nature. While working 50 hours a week I was perfectly satisfied doing hair. But still somehow found myself craving more. I needed more creativity, more hands on, more freedom to think outside the box. Baking always served as my number one true love and the best form of a creative outlet and stress reliever. Growing up around a family of bakers and bakery owners, I could bake and recite recipes in my sleep, if I could sleep. Needing more became an overpowering feeling that found me in the kitchen, next to my mixer, covered in flour at 4am. Questioning myself… maybe I want to create more, or maybe I am just overwhelmed with too much. Maybe I am ready to take everyones advice to pump the breaks at my day job and LEAP for the next step. The wall I always hit was that I was not quite sure what that was exactly and how I get there. It’s like you know you’re creative and you know you’re talented, but you’ve yet to embrace that talent the way you want. I wondered how to take tiny aspects from each talent I had and create a new platform that hasn’t been done before and how to tackle it, but not only that, also how I absolutely kill the game as I go! Without even realizing it, I suddenly became the do-er of all things pretty…. hair, cooking, baking, events, flowers, DIY gifts, tablescapes, you name it. After doing that for awhile it hit me. I didn’t need or want to find just one thing to focus on and be good at! It turns out I wanted to devote my life to making other people’s lives more beautiful. Through food, through cakes, through flowers, through parties where I got to see people laugh and see their beautiful smile when they opened up custom, hand made gifts by me or took their first bite of something delicious I whipped up. All these scenarios led me to reassess my working and personal life and what really made me happy. And the answer was simply to be surrounded by the people who enjoyed what I created, no matter what that may be! The same people who pushed me to dream big and share with the entire world my talents of creating all things beautiful. So here we are today, meeting on the World Wide Web, the largest platform out there, I am smiling at you from ear to ear and shouting from the tallest mountain, I love to make shit pretty!
