Journal

There is an update to our Community Efforts page on the website. We want you to be fully aware of the values and intentions of Ardent Market as we pledge to drive more impact in our personal lives and business practices.

We do not just stand in solidarity with BIPOC communities. We stand for actionable change, especially in the small business scope. Because we take our community very seriously⁠— We take humanity seriously.

We have some immediate and long-term strategies to navigate, but the page update outlines how we have taken some action steps.

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This time at home, preparing to wrap up Ardent Market's first year and navigating the stillness in this pandemic, I've spent a lot of time in my rearview mirror. Thinking about the road already traveled and taking a look back at where it all began, literally on a highway three years ago.

Ardent Market began from wild, intuitive, epiphanies. Out of an impulse to see, explore, connect, I found a way to visualize, share, and build. It's part of AM history to take to the road in discovery and exploration, just to see what could happen... I'm so grateful for the road we've covered together, and I'm so looking forward to the miles ahead, uncharted, with a full tank.

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Scrolling through social media platforms can be a wonderful tool to curate a home, but also an unfortunate stifling of human expression. Your home is more than a shelter to decorate. It's your sacred space to fully be yourself, and all this time in our dwellings has made this point even more important...it doesn't matter what anyone says, teaches you, explains how to do, or sells you. The only thing that matters to me is that you can carve out your home-identity, love it, and be inspired by it.

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I focus on intentions for the year because it feels like a general theme. Of course, I have goals to accomplish, but intentions shape those goals and provide value to them...The intentions inspire the goals; the goals support the action.

You need both energy/thought and action to create any meaningful outcomes in your year. 

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I don't know about you, but any time I see a design or lifestyle magazine during the holidays, I'm instantly tearing open the pages to see what they recommend as gifts. You never know where good ideas come from.

This year, we made one! Well, a couple. Because there are so many things in the store to be excited about, but more importantly, excited to give.

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An Old Fashioned is one of our favorite cocktails, maybe of all time. When you've finished the turkey dinner, done all the dishes, and contemplated getting the tree up, sometimes you just need a treat. This variation is rich, warming, and has a little kick. 

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