Alba Betancourt is a photographer and stylist from Mexico, currently based in Portland Oregon.
She recently created a beautiful editorial on the Oregon coast in our summer collection with Rebekkah Lee.

We sat down with Alba to learn more about her many creative outlets, what she is passionate about, and her love of family and preserving legacy.

One of the reasons why I started working with clay is because I love making things using my hands. Feeling the material, its texture and what it can be used for excites me a lot in the process and hands are great tools to make, repair or destroy things. When I look at my surroundings now, I see the influence that my work has with the objects that surround me and the way I communicate with them. I love anything handmade and one-of-a-kind.

Australian based content creator, mama, and all around creative, Chrizelle Lategan recently embarked on a month long European vacation with her husband and one year old son.

My two grannies, my mum and her four sisters, have 100% influenced me and how I choose to live my life. True homemakers in every sense of the word. Always decorating, up cycling, cleaning, gardening, raising families and hosting.

Never without their lipstick or a little neck scarf to accessorize their outfit. An inspiration, still.

When it comes to motherhood but more often when it comes to running a small business on my own. Problems will always occur, but it has taken me some years to learn that facing problems is okay. Breathe in – breathe out – do not take it personally – find a solution, stop worrying.

I cooked alongside my mom from a young age and realized that working with flowers is in many ways quite similar to this method of cooking. In floristry, one must be creative with the ingredients you have, trust your instincts and don’t follow a strict flower recipe.

I have been a hippy, a biker, a partier, entrepreneur and am now a senior still working. I’ve been a tour guide, vacuum cleaner salesman, parking patrol officer, private eye, animal photographer, actor and casting director, and always an explorer of the mind.
No job or part of my life has ever truly defined me.

Behind the curation of beautiful home goods is really a deep desire to help others nurture a connection to moments rather than things, to foster a‘feeling’ of home rather than a ‘style’ of home-like how a beautiful wooden dish brush can accompany a contemplative, quiet moment at the kitchen sink or how a linen tablecloth can serve as a backdrop to a shared meal with loved ones.

I am most passionate about giving my boys the most wonderful childhood possible and raising really kind and thoughtful human beings that care about world and the environment.

In all aspects of  my life, I seek for the elimination of excess, to create serenity. It’s about calming down and  being able to focus on the essentials.