ANNY RUTH
… The space was the unused lower corner of my mother’s linen closet!
That little corner became the spot I felt the safest in, comfiest, and where I hosted so many fun parties with my stuffed friends and dolls.
Many decades have passed since I tackled that first project. But I still enjoy hanging in my closet, it’s my happy spot! It has become a reminder to keep looking back on my first project.
A reminder of the importance of creating spaces that make you feel good, give you a sense of belonging, tell the story of you, and a place to call your own.
Born in the Valley of the Hammocks, the land of Volcanoes, and rainy days 6 months out of the year. Anny Ruth grew up surrounded by her father’s housing project blueprints, 100-count color pencil sets, oil painting, pastel chalk, and brushes. Always drawing, painting, and hiding behind a book.
She attended Architecture school but realized from the get-go that math and physics were not her forte. So she decided to switch her major to international business instead, and years later after graduation, she joined one of the family businesses: Coffee growing. She put on the boots, ran the farming/ milling operation, and put the farm, and her name on the map. But then, she met her husband. Who imported her to the land of coyotes, quail, wild bunnies, and no rain.
She continued to be in the coffee industry, and became the mamma of her “star child”, while still trying to figure out her new identity and purpose in this new land and life. So, she decided to start to paint a new life from scratch on the blank canvas the universe had handed her… And as Paulo Coelho says: “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
Her creative soul emerged once again. The joy, the passion: Creating living spaces that are beautiful, comfy, homey, functional, and make you feel good.
She relocated to her happy place. The land of the pink coral sand and mesas, rain, the bobcat, the gray fox, the desert turtle, and jackrabbit. Creates from home, mostly from her beloved living/office, while sipping lattes, and keeping an eye on her daughter, her two furry boys, and her husband.