10/18/2026
🌿 A Personal Announcement from Wild Elegance Wreaths 🌿
Taking a Step Back This Christmas Season — For Health, Family, and Self-Preservation
To my wonderful followers, friends, and supporters,
After much consideration, I've made the difficult decision to take a medical and advocacy hiatus from Wild Elegance Wreaths for the 2026 Christmas season.
Every holiday season, I've poured my heart, creativity, and countless hours into designing unique, handcrafted wreaths. What many don't see behind the finished creations is the tremendous physical toll that this work has taken on me.
Over the years, I've pushed through significant medical challenges, including severe bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome requiring surgical intervention, spinal complications requiring future fusion, and pernicious anemia, and epilepsy. Each season has presented increasingly severe physical challenges, yet grit, determination, and my passion for creating have repeatedly pushed me beyond my body's limitations.
Unfortunately, determination doesn't always equal preservation.
Pushing through pain and physical limitations has contributed to further damage, and I've reached a point where continuing at the same pace is no longer sustainable.
This year, I'm choosing to prioritize my health, my family's needs, and the advocacy responsibilities that require my time and attention.
This isn't a goodbye to Wild Elegance Wreaths. Rather, it's a necessary period of self-preservation, healing, and restructuring how I operate my creative business.
I may still create sporadically when my health permits, and I remain open to considering select commissions or special-interest projects that genuinely inspire me and are manageable within my physical limitations. However, I will not be maintaining my traditional Christmas production schedule or accepting the volume of orders I've taken in previous seasons.
I've always believed that anything worth creating deserves passion, attention to detail, and quality craftsmanship. I refuse to compromise those standards simply to meet seasonal expectations at the expense of my health.
Sometimes strength isn't measured by how much we can endure, but by recognizing when it's time to protect what we have left.
To everyone who has supported Wild Elegance Wreaths, purchased my creations, shared my work, or encouraged my artistic endeavors, thank you. Your support has meant more than you know.
My creativity isn't disappearing. I'm simply learning that preserving the artist is just as important as preserving the art. ❤️
With gratitude,
Wild Elegance Wreaths 🌿
