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a weekend filled with so much love as I watched my bestie marry her bestie with all our besties!!! 🥹🤧❤️

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the happiest of birthdays 🥹🎂🩷

@elonyates throwing the best party (per usual) with my favorite things, like the angel she is!!

1) @tacobell
2) @raisingcanes
3) @dietcoke
4) strawberry cake 🫦

i just keep getting hotter duh (libra mentality)

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my heart 🫀

💐💐💐

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sunsets and smiles from life’s past season 🌞🌈

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adult summer camp 🏕️

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Earth laughs in flowers

#backpack #adventure #labrador @insta360 #ambassador #outdoor #camping #tent #colorado #summer #backpacker #JohnMuir #flowers #NationalForest #nature

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And it’s all thanks to you! So grateful to all of you for helping me on this most fascinating of missions. Updated the website with new pieces and patterns, please reach out with any questions. You deserve some discounts while I reminisce in some of my dearest and defining moments. Memories that I will always cherish and that continue to inspire me 🫶🏼

Here’s 9 fun facts since I started Bear Fruit:
🍎Debuted the Fruit in Chicago in 2017 while working for Sloth Steady
🍑I’ve moved 10 times
🍌Bear Fruit has been a part of 67 festivals in 10 states and 2 countries (68 next week)
🍍The biggest show so far was the Texas Eclipse Festival ~50,000 people
🥑I’m the only vendor I know that’s had a skunk fall asleep in their booth, Jumpsuit Family Gathering
🫐Danced onstage at Red Rocks with the Polish Ambassador in my jumpsuits
🍇After a phone call with Opiuo I walked out to my first laser engraver on fire
🍉There’s Fruit in 4 countries that I know of, USA, Canada, England, Italy
🍊My van’s name is Ursula Van Der Fruit

Pictures on the post👉🏼
Fitting the squad for the first time at Sonic Bloom 2018.
Paul and I at High Ground 2021, he will give anyone a run for festival attendance.
Giving Russ Liquid our collab at Electric Forest 2019.
Ursa Major, my first festival not working since I started BFD.
Darrell being a boss and getting 3 of my prints! Bless that man.
Two of the sweetest men I’ll ever know <3
Private ice cave tour in Iceland with the ice queen and Tasty beats.
The Polish Ambassador 2 piece.
Performing my work live at the best festival in the galaxy.
Digital painting prototype.
Mama and Papa Bear at M3F 2022.
My birthday on the 50 acres I was renting during covid.
Showing the Canadians something they’ve never seen before.
The boys hustling my first booth at Lighting in a Bottle 2024.
Hiking from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
Manning the booth at the Texas Eclipse Festival.
First time with current digital canvas (tv).
Crushed sales, saw all of Pretty Lights at Yahn Dawn with all the homies.
My first laser 🥹

9 also just happens to be my favorite number 🙌🏼
That’s all for now 😮‍💨
Talk soon

Love you

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Been off to a helluva start in ‘26 😤

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couldn’t be happier that you were born 🤍
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hbd angel man, i’m so lucky i get to love you 🥹
the last pic was taken 5 minutes after meeting each other & we had no idea we’d be inseparable after that. s/o @burndowndenver and one too many beverages that gave me the courage to talk to you. i love you so bad 🫶🏼

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bread til I’m dead 🥖😎

#vlog #redrocks #dailybread #edm #denver #denvermusicscene #ootd #colorado

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virtual postcard!!! xoxo from maui 🌺🐚✨🌊🥝

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home is where the heart is 🤍

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pieces of my heart 💖

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