God's story, your life.

Unfolding short stories.

I was a makeup artist and I was looking for a makeup studio.

The journey to doing that was really long.

I was either finding spaces that were in my budget but didn't work or spaces that were

way over my budget. And it was my first time looking for a retail space. I was also about seven

months pregnant at the time with my second child. So my husband called me one day and he said,

do you want to take a look at my friend's studio? I've been sharing it

with him. I told you about it and, you know, come and take a look at it. So I go with him to this

studio and it's in an area that I've been looking at and like there's just nothing available in

this area. And so my husband has keys and he's meeting his own clients in his friend's photo studio.

He turned on all the lights. I kind of stepped forward and turned around and looked at my husband and said,

you need to tell your friend that he's got to leave my studio. And of course, my husband looks at me like I'm crazy.

And I said, you have to tell your friend. He's got to get out of my studio. This of course, my husband looks at me like I'm crazy. And I said, you have to tell your friend,

he's got to get out of my studio. This place is absolutely perfect. It's exactly what I've been looking

for. He says, woman, like, we got to go. You're just being so silly. Like, let's just, let's get out of

here. So we leave. And about two weeks later, my husband calls me from work and he says,

you're never going to believe this. But my friend said that he's going to move out of his studio and he

wants to know if you want it. And of course, I was like, absolutely. It was just this thing that

fell out of the sky. So I said, okay, God, here we go. I'm going to jump in.

And so at eight months pregnant with a three-year-old child at home, I took the keys to a little

studio and I turned it into the cutest little makeup studio that downtown Whitby, Ontario had ever seen. Over the years,

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