The One Where We Talk About A Beautiful Mess & More With Elsie Larson

The Papaya Podcast

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

As one of the original internet home bloggers, Elsie Larson is well known for her style, her classic pink front door, her two adorable daughters, and a Pinterest-worthy EVERYTHING. The blog she shares with her sister, Emma, called “A Beautiful Mess”, is a place of joy and inspiration that’s proven longevity on the internet in a day in age where everything feels so fleeting. What’s unique about Elsie (and Emma) is how they’ve taken the experiences of being creators and made it easier for other creators. How exactly? Apps. Four of them exactly (and I use them!). But, that’s not all. In this conversation, Elsie also opens up about International adoption, the story of her two daughters, with some really real chats about the process for her. As a long-time fan of Elsie’s, this chat was a really amazing peek into her life, her heart, and her passions!

You can find Elsie on @ElsieLarson, her blog abeautifulmess.com and her apps FILMM, A Color Story, A Design Kit and Template App.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:06.0	Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess,
0:11.0	Trine Hermosta, Sarah Nicole, and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed
0:16.4	in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. So get ready to get inspired,
0:22.4	get candid, get real because we are all in this digital space together.
0:30.8	All right, everyone. Welcome back. I am sitting in Nashville and sitting in another like one of
0:37.5	my favorite Instagram homes and I can't believe she's selling it and moving and I would very much
0:41.6	like to buy it, but that's okay. I am sitting with Elsie Larson, who is an incredible creator.
0:47.3	She is a mom. She is just a bright, honestly, like for years I followed you and you're just like
0:52.0	a bright colorful human and I'm so excited to talk to you about a couple, a couple really
0:57.1	cool things that you're up to. Thank you. I'm so excited for you to be here.
1:01.2	Yeah, I'm so glad this worked out, but tell us like, who are you? What is like your thing?
1:07.4	How did this all come to be? Because you're now like, you've got a pretty strong social media
1:12.0	following. This is like your job as a creator, but also, you know, you do a lot of other cool stuff
1:16.5	too. So I'd love for you to kind of tell your story a little bit. Cool, thanks. Okay, so I'm
1:21.4	Elsie Larson. I am an OG blogger. I've been blogging 13 years at abeautifulmess.com. We've
1:27.7	written over 7,000 blog posts, which is just like pure insanity, right? Yeah, so we've been doing that
1:34.8	all these years and I might also am co-founder of a few apps. The first one is a color story,
1:43.0	which I co-founded with my sister Emma Chapman. And then the next two are film and template,
1:50.8	which we co-founded also with Zoe Sugg from Zoella and a design kit. So we have our own little
1:58.4	app. I have three of those apps, literally three of them. Anyways, go on. I have to get you the
2:03.9	new one after the store. And I'm mom of two. You're a mom of children adopted from China.
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