When I was pregnant with Soleil I was gifted a book that changed the whole course of where my parenting ideology would go.  The book was called the Continuum Concept and it is written by an explorer, Jean Liedloff, who lived with Aboriginal tribes in the deep rainforest of South America.  While living with the tribes she noticed that ...

     I grieved the biggest loss of my life in 2016.  It was the loss of my family.  Last year I announced my split from Sol's Dad.  My best friend and lover of 8 years and the father to our soulmate, Soleil.  I watched things slowly start to change towards the end of my pregnancy.  It would take me two more years to finally tell myself that the...

   Aloha sisters! Elise Nicole here, and thrilled to be writing this post for the Sisterhood of the Sun Blog  There’s something mystical about this interwoven web of connection and what a blessing that we have sacred space to radiate and shine, sharing our gifts to assist each other as we rise up into our divine purpose.  While I feel as if I ...

This year I decided I wasn't going to be vending anymore.  I much prefer to sell my products online and to wholesalers in the comfort of my own art studio : ) But then I got an email from the co-founder of the Success Summit asking me to please vend at their event.  And I had to say HECK YES.  And yall, I am so glad I did.   This women's retrea...

The female tribe in my life here in Santa Barbara is so incredibly amazing.  It is so important for us to have a support system of women to lift us up, tell us we are beautiful, hold us when we need to be held.  We can get those things from the men in our lives, but its so different when it comes from our women.  This Goddess is one of those wo...

I am so excited to share this look book with you, my darlings!  My long time close friend and Santa Barbara photographer Shannon Jayne Miller helped me put together my simple vision for this one.  I styled all of my products with my other badass mompreneur sista Shoplovethreads.com and her holiday inventory from her store.  We shot at one of m...