If you found this page...

There is a good chance something in your life is changing.

Maybe you are coming out of heartbreak, grief, separation, disappointment, or a relationship that affected far more than your heart.

Maybe it touched your finances, your career, your family, your confidence, your health, your home, or the way you imagined your future.

Pure Luv & Beyond is where I create tools for that in-between place, when you know you cannot keep living the same way, but you are still discovering what comes next.

A little more quiet time.
A little more relaxing.

A little more self-love.

Better boundaries, some animals underfoot, a good cup of coffee, a kitchen to cook in, and enough nature to hear myself think.

That combination usually works pretty well for me, which is one of the reasons I spend so much time at the Pure Luv Farm.

This property has become:

Part retreat, part creative laboratory, part construction project,

and part place to remember who I am.

This little space has some history behind it.

My late husband, who died from colon cancer in 2020, helped me custom-order it so I could have a place of my own while still being close enough for my family.

It didn't become my space until the Fall of 2025, because I was letting other people stay in it who were homeless and helping out on the farm.

Two weeks after my husband died, I met someone on Tinder in Tucson, AZ where I went because that's where I brought my kids so we could get help through the grieving process.

That connection has been very hard (and extremely toxic), going back and forth for six years, so when I need a break I come back to Upstate NY.

In one of his recent emails he said to me:

““First, I’m not the devil. Okay, sure, I got issues, but we all have issues, including you. Unlike you, I am truly trying to fix my mistakes slowly.”

Really???

What a ridiculous thing to assume.

Sometimes people looking at your life from a distance (or only on social media) have absolutely no idea how much rebuilding is happening behind the scenes.

About ten days into being sick, I finally started working again.

Instead of sleeping eighteen hours a day, I was slowly getting back to twelve-hour creative days, which probably tells you something about me.

A lot of my work begins with whatever I am researching, questioning, or trying to understand in my own life.

One of those questions became, "How can I dive deeper into the lessons of the Major Arcana?"

And out came The Three Paths, a 66-card Major Arcana project divided into Her Path, His Path, and Their Path.

It is rooted in traditional tarot structure, but translated into the Pure Luv world, and the Devil and the Lovers archetypes were a huge part of what sparked it.

Before The Three Paths...

There were already a number of other ideas taking shape.

Without Samsung Notes, Canva files, future classroom organization, and a lot of digital sorting, I honestly would not be able to keep track of them all.

I have tens of thousands of images on my phone (most are digital art and some are sexy photo shoots).

But I love this part of the work: the graphic artistry, the layouts, the photography, the decks, the guides, the typography, the worlds inside the worlds.

I have been doing some version of this since my earliest businesses.

This is some of what I started during August 2026, it's one month of work.

Most of it is not released yet because I need to finish some and I would rather build the foundation properly than throw everything online just because it exists.

Being able to create at this pace is a combination of modern tools and decades of creative experience: fashion design, sewing instruction, creating videos, homeschooling, photography, modeling, graphic design, website creation, writing, business training, and learning how to use AI as part of my process.

ChatGPT has become one of my favorite creative tools because I can take an idea that exists only in my head and can work with it (without its ego getting in the way) until I can actually see the world I was imagining come into being quickly.

I am not always entirely sure where a project will come from.

I tend to work in my feminine flow (mostly), paying attention to what I am researching, what I am feeling (every day), what I am allowing into my life, and what I know needs to leave it.

I have always been drawn to darker feminine archetypes, especially Lilith, Hecate, Medusa, and crone energy.

My late husband first introduced me to the story of Lilith when I was in my twenties, and those archetypes have all became part of the language in the Pure Luv Kingdom.

Banish grew out of that darker current: simple rituals for cutting cords, clearing patterns, reclaiming boundaries, and choosing yourself.

Some individual one-page Banish rituals are being prepared to put in my Etsy shop at $4.44 each while the larger collection for our school continues to grow.

And now, I want the story to circle back to where this chapter really started: My Health (physically and mentally).

One of the reasons I came out to Pure Luv Farm & Retreet was because I finally had my own kitchen here, after the cabinets literally sat in boxes for three years waiting for us to get that far.

Before I got sick, I was finally cooking almost every day: lots of eggs, vegetables, soups, crepes, smoothies, kefir experiments, and the kind of wholesome homecooked food I have relied on for years to stay healthy.

That kitchen is always welcoming me to create nourishment for my body, mind and soul (and I always miss it when I'm away).