My Creative Journey

1993: born in the small town of Baie Verte, Newfoundland, I spent a few short years of my life by the ocean before my family relocated to Alberta

2000: Fort McMurray officially became “home” after a couple pit stops in Grand Cache and Medicine Hat

2004: You would find me with a camcorder or disposable camera in hand, filming snippets and snapping photos of friends and family, filling scrapbooks and photo albums

2007: Creative writing began, duo-tangs overflowed with poetry and free-flowing rhymes most of which were heavily inspired by my relationships

2009: The beginning of creative filming. I would stay up all night editing hours and hours of footage to create a 5/10/15 minute film I would then burn onto a DVD (many of which I still have to this day)

2014: My partnerJeremy and I welcome our first child and my Canon DSLR very quickly became my favourite accessory

2016: I received my college Diploma from Lasalle and began working in the interior design industry

2017: Jeremy and I eloped in Canmore in January after having to postpone our previously planned and paid for elopement 6 months earlier, due to the 2016 fire. We welcomed our second child in October 2017.

2020: After 4 years in the design field, I became pregnant with our third child who joined us March 2020, one week before the world shut down. I spent much time thinking about our future and how I want to show up in this world. Later that year, myself and a close friend and like minded creative established Wildrose Film & Photo. 2021: After documenting over 30+ couples and families, Wildrose Film & Photo had become a thriving success. My business partner’s health then took top priority which led us to decide to close indefinitely. I continued my endevears as a videographer, stepping into the wedding industry as Mother More Film.

2023: After a couple years of quietly filming and photographing existing clients + family and friends I solo filmed and photographed a wedding in October which I spent the remainder of that year editing before closing my books in 2024.

2024: Truly a year of transformative growth. MotherMore Film was far off course from my original plan of Mother-centred work so I stepped back and began questioning what it was I wanted and what direction I should follow rather than be swayed by the woes of motherhood and pushed around by a fiercely-passionate-sometimes-reckless  heart. So I silenced my mind and I made space for whatever answer followed every difficult question I asked myself and eventually learned why I was not completely satisfied with my journey thus far: I wasn’t able to connect with others because of the very damming disconnect that had formed within me. I knew all of this passion and creativity existed inside but what I did not know was how to honour it. How to nurture it and let it grow and then ultimately how to accept that you can’t rush growth. I went in the direction that led back to parts of me lost. To the kid who created with passion rather than pressure to create something “beautiful” and, further, I started to deconstruct and redefine what beauty actually meant - TO ME. What inspired me to pick up a camera or a pen or re-arrange a room in the first place? The answer finally became clear why... for the people. I captured it because I didn't want to lose the memory with them. I wrote about it because the experience with them mattered. I changed and arrange spaces because I cared how people felt in their environment and the strand that tied every filming session together was the PEOPLE and the story they wanted to keep close to them. The story I felt so lucky to witness and tell through my own perspective. So in

2025: I hope to capture your story with the same freedom and passion I felt as a child, when the fire first egnited. I hope to work with clients who share in the vision of our imperfections perfectly representing our humanness and how much value there is in that.

In 2025, I choose to show up honest. I choose presence. I choose quality over quantity.

I choose to respect my boundaries and feel proud of everything I create. I may not satisfy everyone this way but I do not intend to. Beauty is subjective and in a world where most of what we see is edited, mass produced or AI generated, I hope to document and create something real. We can and will have many differences but, If you are comfortable with openness, if you understand saying too much or saying too little, if you make space for mistakes and lead with your humanness; I hope you allow me to bring to light how beautiful that really is.