happy April first, friends

xo! lili

Happy May Day!

Flora goddess of spring season + flowers

Happy May Day friends! What a nice segue for both my absence but too for May. Historically it was a Celtic pagan festival that spread to northern Europe and then to England and America. May Day in towns and villages of older Europe represented fertility in soil, livestock, and people. It was a day where farmers and laborers could rest from work and for townspeople to rejoice in village fêtes and gatherings! A day for others to celebrate Flora, goddess of springtime and flowers (Roman Catholics revered Mary). May baskets filled with sweets and flowers would be left on neighbors' steps. Dancing, floral crowns and ribbons danced around maypoles weaving beautiful patterns all the way down to the ground. Makes me wish our courtyard had a maypole. Flowers--linked with so much symbolism, story telling, folklore, and celebrations. They represent awakening! So here's to May!

Herbal and Mineral Pouch Workshop!

Artist and dear friend Lauren Spencer King is holding a workshop at BOOKSTAND as part of the Plants: Our Silent Guardians installation this month at The Standard! This is going to be a really lovely evening where Lauren will guide the class as we sip on homemade chai tea + snack on homemade rosemary infused chocolate w/ Himalayan sea salt and listen to Velvet Underground! Such a treat I hope that I see you there and should we be sitting next to each other please say hi. See you there!

Tuesday, April 16th

7 - 9pm

BOOKSTAND

@ The Standard, Hollywood

8300 W. Sunset Blvd.

Hollywood, 90069

$45

RSVP helpdesk@artbookstand.com (super limited space)

I Heart Wilder (Bigtime)

Happy Spring, doves! If you know me then you know that I love Wilder Quarterly and all things it represents. I have a wonderful little collection of their quarterly journals stacked by my bed. I was and still am so humbled about this write up on their site! Read more here.

Thank you so much Celestine + Wilder Quarterly.

(Above photo of Alana + I picking wildflowers in the french countryside shot by dear friend/artist Jamie Russom)