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Utah based artist Kristyan Williams.
Fine Art Carved Paintings, jewelry, prints, apparel.
Venmo: @kristyanwilliams

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Celebrating forty eight rotations around the sun. ☀️
#birthdayhike #grandeurpeak #hikethewasatch #hikingadventures #utahisrad #beutahful

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A cool picture of some mountains 🏔 near me

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Stole my mom’s phone. You’re welcome.

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My amazing talented wife @barefootkakes is doing awesome with @mountainsoulco and we just got these AMAZING Timp stickers!!! My others are starting to wear out but I’m excited!!! #lifeisbeautiful #mywifeisawesome #mountainsarelife #mountainsoul #stickers

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I’m feeling so damn grateful tonight. For friends like @utahgirlonfire who’ll hike up steep mountains in the snow with me to go gift hunting, talk about life, and is endlessly supportive. For my Secret Wrangler who nailed it with the most perfect, beautifully thoughtful gifts & an amazing adventure to find them. For these mountains & colorful skies to soothe & stabilize my soul. For friendly faces along the trails and the best community of mountain loving humans. For the ornament I just so happened to receive today, handcrafted by one of those lovely humans @barefootkakes of my mountain crush Lone Peak. What a day. What a life! People can be so wonderful💙
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#uphillathlete #runhappy #pushpeaks #ultrarunning #mountainrunner #utah #wmwranglers #outrunthedark #wasatchmountains #runsteepgethigh #lifeelevated #trailrunning #mountolympus #womenwhoexplore_utah #utahisrad #trailtribe #wasatchdays #merrychristmas🎄

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Feature #39 🌱
How you handle your trials and your “trails” (pun intended) says a lot about you. Today we introduce to one determined mother and mountaineer who refuse to take a “NO” for answer. @barefootkakes . In 2014, she was training for her first 50k ultramarathon. She was a newly trained yoga instructor, and was homeschooling her four kids. .
That summer, Kristyan had an unexpected rock climbing accident that shattered her talus. Her surgeon told her, what no athlete EVER wants to hear, that she could never run, hike, or even do yoga again. She was devastated but refused to accept this. .
Kristyan then, found a PT, and after much dedication, she ran a trail 25k 8 months later- (but she was still hoping to do her 50k. race)! After awhile, she suffered pains from a kidney stone, but little did she know that the stone was going to be saving her life. While she got the CT scan, it showed liver lesions and an IUD that had gone missing 7 years before, and it was millimeters from killing her, based on poison levels. A series of procedures followed including open abdominal surgery. Recovery was slow and difficult, but she started training and hoped, once again, to pursue her first 50k race. However, 8 months after her surgery, another incident occurred. She felt off a ladder, and broke her foot in 4 places. At this point she sank into deep depression and PTSD. Suicidal ideation sent her to therapy, and mystery health issues were shutting down her organs and damaging her brain.
Finally it was discovered that she had severe copper toxicity. She hunted down doctors that could help her, did her research and begin making as full a recovery as it was possible. “In her words:➡️ “My brain therapies led me to art- carving and painting the mountains that I love so much. I had started Mountain Soul Co. (@mountainsoulco ) and now I make natural jewelry and mountain art.
By November of 2018, I was finally crossing the finish line of my first 50k ultramarathon. I now love teaching yoga, and I am beyond grateful for my recovery and experience”. .
1. What word best describes you?🌱
Kind- my struggles have taught me that everyone’s journey is valid.
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in 2018, we bought a house, changed jobs, invested in friendships and in happiness, and fell in love a million times over with our backyard and with each other. thank you, to my sweet, sweet friend @barefootkakes from @mountainsoulco for capturing my favorite moment of 2018, indian paint brush & all. you are incredible❤️

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#Repost @mountainsoulcreations
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Every art piece is a journey. This one has been in the background of my everyday life since the moment @nate.y graciously gifted his original art piece (the first larger piece I ever attempted), to @zaczim’s family to display at his funeral. I vowed to make him a new one. Eleven months of countless ups and downs, stolen moments, hesitation, determination, and a million lessons later, it felt amazing to deliver it home. 🏔❤️
#mountainsoul #wmwranglers #mountainlove #bestmountainfamilyever #handcarved #handpainted #mountainart

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A beautiful gift for a beautiful friend! This hand-carved creation by @mountainsoulcreations is one of MANY gorgeous pieces available in her Etsy shop...and she is LOCAL! Right down the street from me! ❤️🤩 ⛰

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A very special thank you to @logan_l_88 for this beautiful necklace created bye @mountainsoulcreations! A very special gift with a very special meaning. I will wear this piece daily with great gratitude for all that it represents! Thank you Logan for such an amazing gift and for being a great inspiration ... and son 😄....
and thank you Kristyan for your beautiful artistry! #gratitudeattitude #birthday #livelife #yogalife #liveurbestlife #healthylifestyle #mountainsoulcreations #proudmom #blessed🙏

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Custom Blanche necklace so now my favorite place can be with me all the time @mountainsoulcreations FTW! I love it sooo much!!!⛰💕

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WARNING: very long best friend birthday post ahead!

Dear @barefootkakes,

You are: * the person who eats steak with your hands in the middle of a field of wildflowers with me cause that's what will make me feel better about life
* the friend who tackles mountains with me that we have no business tackling with nowhere near enough food or water cause, "whatever, I need a SUMMIT!"
* the best company on trips, whether they're epic road trips to the desert or sanity trips to the store or uncomfortable trips to the urgent care
* insanely tolerant of my "emotional shouting" nonsense when I'm legit crazy AF
* the creator of basically all of my jewelry and accessories, because TALENT
* that friend who unintentionally matches outfits all the time cause you have half my clothes anyway
* the one who is completely awesome at all the things I'm not awesome at that someone needs to be awesome at for this friendship to be so awesome
* definitely the nicer one in the friendship because ask, like, anybody
* above all, you are a brilliant and wonderful and ridiculous and completely amazeballs friend and I LURVE you for aaaall the daayyys in de whole wooorld!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, K!!

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