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Posted On: October 24th 2026, 03:44 pm

@somewhere.home__ 🤎 favorite season so far 🪵🍂

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martltch

8 days ago

martltch

🕯🙌❤️

kevinbrra

9 days ago

kevinbrra

Best time of the year ? 🍂

journal._.7777

9 days ago

journal._.7777

Few daysss🙂‍↕️

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My interest in Josefa de Óbidos, a Spanish-Portuguese 17th century painter, was the jumping-off point for my collaboration with @chelseafussflowers in her recent floral retreat in Lisbon (the retreat was called “Art, Flowers, & Gardens of Lisbon”, a title I find very evocative!).

Chelsea always wants her guests to be immersed in Portuguese culture and heritage and she and I worked together to translate Josefa’s legacy into different floral experiences for her guests.

On my first morning of teaching we headed out to Évora to see a few of Josefa’s paintings at the @museunfreimanueldocenaculo. We chose Évora because Lisbon’s old masters museum, the @mnaa_lisboa, is undergoing renovations and has been closed for a year, and Évora is both a short drive from Lisbon and an amazing city in its own right.

I started by giving them a little talk about Josefa’s background and career and then I went on explaining each of the paintings on display. We talked about the omnipresence of religion in Baroque society, the growing importance of sugar, the seasonality of sweets and the symbolism of flowers. As in 17th century poetry, paintings were filled with metaphors and fauna and flora were often associated with Christian meaning. We identified each flower and talked about what it could have meant to 17th century viewers.

In order to make this session a bit more interactive and three-dimensional, I brought along some of my paper flowers, specifically the ones I made following Josefa’s very rigorous and accurate depictions. Most of them are native to Portugal, which makes it even more interesting in terms of general knowledge and conservation.

After the visit to the museum we went to @ximenamaier’s home, where we were treated to an excellent lunch, animated conversation, a talk on the history of tiles and a tile painting workshop.

I’ve written more about the whole experience on my substack, the link is in my bio.

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in this first slide, before we ever met, julia was watching dancing with the stars. she showed me this video to prove she’d been a fan for years, but what made it so special was that she unknowingly captured my very first appearance on the show. just two counts of eight, and somehow she caught the very beginning of my journey. little did we know that years later, she’d become my partner, my best friend, and one of the most important people in my life. sometimes people are part of our story long before we even know it.

julia, i wish you could see yourself through my eyes. i wish you could see how much you’ve grown, how brave you’ve been, and how much you’ve accomplished. even on the hardest days, you kept showing up, kept fighting, and kept giving your whole heart. somewhere between the rehearsals, the laughter, and the tears, you became so much more than my dance partner.

i came into this season hoping to teach you how to dance, but you ended up teaching me so much more about life, love, and friendship. my favorite part of this entire experience wasn’t a dance or a score. it was getting to know you and getting to call you my friend.

the hardest part about saying goodbye is knowing we’ll never get to experience these moments for the first time again. but if i could go back, knowing every high, every low, and every tear we’d shed, i’d do it a thousand times over.

i don’t know what i did to deserve a friendship like yours, but i’ll spend the rest of my life being grateful for it.

i love you, julia. always. and if fate ever lets me find you in another lifetime, i hope i get to be your dance partner there too. ❤️

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