It’s been a while since my last post, a little over a year to be exact, and while I had no intention of leaving my beloved photography journal blank for that length of time, what can I say, life got in the way. My personal world changed, got super busy, and left me with not a lot of time for what I loved….photography and writing.
Twenty Twenty One was a difficult year for many. In Canada, the province of Ontario kept going into lockdown and then a slow phase of re-opening from mid 2020 all the way into, well it’s still happening now in Jan 2022. It was a very difficult time to live through, both my husband and myself were self employed and we were forced to shut down our businesses. No income, a mortgage on our house, and plenty of bills to be paid. Life became heavy and uncomfortable, so, we changed it, in a big big way.
In mid Feb 2021 we decided to put our house on the market, it was a sellers market and one that we felt could benefit us greatly. Our house sold within a week, with a 8 week closing, which didn’t leave us much time at all. We decided to sell absolutely everything we owned and move to Mexico. What a whirlwind those few weeks were! We packed our lives into 8 suitcases, 4 carry on’s, and 4 backpacks, and started on a new journey.
We landed in Mexico early May 2021 and hit the ground running. We spent weeks looking at property and real estate and had a ton of options presented to us, from oceanfront, to the middle of the jungle and everything in between. After countless hours of searching we decided to buy land and build our dream home in a gated community, close to schools and hospitals, in the city of Playa del Carmen.
In the process of our life change I felt my business needed to change along with me, as it’s not only what I do but is also a very big part of who I am. While I loved my previous business name, and was very attached to it, it just didn’t feel well suited to this new chapter, and so with that, let me introduce you to my new business……….welcome to Heather Clemente Photography where the service is everything you’ve grown to know and expect, with heartfelt experiences and candid captures. My goal is, and always will be, to provide my clients with beautiful imagery, captured from the heart, for a lifetime of memories.
And so, here we are, 7 months later, the beginning of a New Year, and our home is close to complete. Our lives have found a new rhythm and were settling in beautifully to the new life we’ve created for ourselves. Now that life feels a little more settled, you can expect to see me here, on my beloved blog, a lot more frequently. I hope you will continue to follow along, and forgive my absence these past 12 months, while we hit re-start and found a new way of life.
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Heather
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