Flora Deva Designs

Just get out of bed
and stretch your body.

Eat something. Anything.
Drink some water.

Then sit outside.
Watch the sky and the birds.
Breathe the fresh air.

You can do this.

Created a new idea for a perfume today based upon a conversation with a woman who just embodied Maine coast pine and ocean vibes. Article in my Substack page. https://floradeva.substack.com/p/the-creative-process-is-a-living?r=85vcp4&utm_medium=ios

Flora Deva is all set for the Santa Barbara Sea Glass & Ocean Arts Festival

Botanical perfumes, flower essences, herbal rituals, coastal driftwood pieces, and a little bit of the Santa Barbara shoreline gathered into one space.

Saturday 9–5 • Sunday 10–4
Come find me in the back of the hall and say hello.

SeaGlassFestival CoastalBotanicals

Looking forward to seeing you all this weekend at Warren Hall Earl Warren Showgrounds. Here’s my price lists! So excited to share these creative projects!

See you all soon!

So much inspired work to present to you on Sept 12-13 at Santa Barbara Seaglass & Ocean Arts Festival September 12 and 13 Earl Warren Showgrounds Warren Hall

Come and enjoy ocean arts at Earl Warren Hall Sept 12-13

A September of Tending and Trust

Perhaps the invitation of this late-month Full Moon is simply this: to meet uncertainty with steadiness, to tend what is within our reach, and to keep imagining the future we hope to help create—while trusting that life is still unfolding in ways we cannot yet fully see.

In a time like this, it is only human to feel worry, doubt, fear, rage, sorrow. There is room for all of it.

And still, we have some choice in how we occupy the helm of our own awareness.

Can we make space within ourselves for both grief and gratitude?

Can we tend lovingly to what hurts without allowing it to become the whole story?

Can we continue to notice what is alive, what is beautiful, what is asking for our care?

Perhaps September is not a month for forcing answers.

Perhaps it is a month for tending.

For strengthening the roots beneath what matters.
For caring for what is already growing.
For sowing small seeds toward the world we long to see flourish.

And for trusting that not everything needs to be known before we take the next faithful step.

BEFORE AUGUST DISAPPEARS
AUGUST FIELD NOTE
Before August disappears, notice what this season gave you.
A plant you met.
A place you returned to.
Something you tasted.
Something you gathered.
Something that bloomed.
Something that dried.
Something you released.
Something quietly beginning.
You don’t need to make meaning from all of it.
Simply notice.
This is one of the things the natural world keeps teaching me:
A season doesn’t have to remain in order to have changed us.
These are field notes, too.
Flora Deva · Field Notes from the Living Earth