Hello world, I'm Elizabeth Faye!
This is my first official post on my new blog (eeeeeeee), so I am going to give a little background on me. So, I am actually Elizabeth Manuele, my middle name is Faye but I have gone by Elizabeth Faye for my business for years. I like to pretend that I am awesome enough to have a stage name.
I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I am a wife, a mother, a hairdresser, a business woman and now a blogger. Oh, and I live in Saint George Utah. Yes, starting a blog is a very stereotypical thing for me to do. I also wear maxi skirts and wear cardigans occasionally, shoot me!
I have a really weird life story that I will spare you the details of, but basically I was a really bad child and got sent away. Boys, trouble, drugs, trouble, blah blah. Dropped out of high school to be mentored at an awesome, fancy salon called Kelly Cardenas Salon (at 16) in Las Vegas and then went to school to be a hairdresser. I had a lot of opportunity with that company. Performed doing hair everywhere, told my story on stage as inspiration to other hair students, traveled to Germany to do hair, worked on a snoop dog video and lots of other awesome stuff. Basically my heart wasn't in it in the end. I wanted kids, a husband, a garden and a mortgage. So bam, bam, bam! Really though, it happened about that fast. So at the time I parted ways with that company I was in Chicago working and I left and moved to good ol Saint George, Utah to live in my best friend's bed and figure out what the hell to do with myself.
I did pretty good for being a crazy eighteen year old with a lot of insane ideas floating around my stupid little eighteen year old head. Basically , I had a lot of fun, built a cliental out of thin air, I became a teacher at the local hair school and learned how to work for myself. This is where I learned that I had a entrepreneur side of me, a side of me that I loved and that I loved so much my ideas kept me up at night with excitement.
The greatest thing that came of all this was my full conversion to the LDS church. This changed my life forever. I am forever thankful for all the people who came in and out of my life at this time-they led me to where I am today.
All these things led to meeting me husband. We met and four months later got engaged and four months later got married in the Saint George temple. We know we are crazy, but crazy happy right, so who cares! Then (apparently four is my lucky number) ...four months later I found out I was pregnant. So, it has been a crazy ride but I wouldn't have it any other way.
I now work for myself and rock it out only behind the chair and my husband is going to be a fire-fighter and planning on doing the family business- vacuum and sewing machine store (glamorous, I know). The store is super mom and pop style and he loves it. So we are just figuring out our lives, and raising our hilarious son and trying to soak up every moment.
If my heart could be captured in pictures, I am pretty sure it looks like that.
Thanks for stopping by!