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  • September

           The smell of roasting green chile wafts through the air as I eat a strawberry rhubarb crepe at The Downtown Grower’s Market, in Albuquerque. Working on Saturdays was not conducive to flower buying, coffee drinking, or people watching, but, after wrapping up the New Mexico portion of my latest movie and getting a…

  • 72 Hours of California Love

    After a 72 hour whirlwind of California color, love, weddings, friends, family, sun, waves, flowers, scones, and fun, I’m delayed in the Phoenix airport. Back to work in the morning, if the desert thunderstorms allow.                     

  • Animal Spirits

         

  • Because the West is just too Photogenic. 

           

Smagik is Claire Sandrin’s personal blog of writing and photographs dedicated to finding beauty in the everyday. It covers everything from how to brand yourself as a creative, making a professional pivot in middle age, travels to Amsterdam, and recipes for grain free chocolate zucchini cake. Join me for the adventure that is this life!

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