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name: Moorea Seal
about: Moorea Seal is an author, designer, and entrepreneur based out of Seattle, WA. She is the founder and namesake of the women's retail website mooreaseal.com and store front in downtown Seattle which features over 160 handmade designers from across the U.S. and donates 7% of all proceeds to non-profits. Through "The 52 Lists Project" "52 Lists for Happiness" and new latest book "Make Yourself at Home", she seeks to write journals and books that inspire and encourage people from all walks of life, to harness their inner wisdom, strength and self love through list making.With a degree in Illustration, graduating college in 2009, Moorea was faced with the harsh realities of the job market, or lack there of, during the economic recession. Seeing Moorea Seal is an author, designer, and entrepreneur based out of Seattle, WA. She is the founder and namesake of the women's retail website mooreaseal.com and store front in downtown Seattle which features over 160 handmade designers from across the U.S. and donates 7% of all proceeds to non-profits. Through "The 52 Lists Project" "52 Lists for Happiness" and new latest book "Make Yourself at Home", she seeks to write journals and books that inspire and encourage people from all walks of life, to harness their inner wisdom, strength and self love through list making.With a degree in Illustration, graduating college in 2009, Moorea was faced with the harsh realities of the job market, or lack there of, during the economic recession. Seeing no straight forward path in a career in the arts, and still unsure of how to mix her passions of art, music, philanthropic work, writing, and fashion into one avenue, she decided to start her blog moorea-seal.com. While juggling 2 full time nanny jobs and a part time job as an artist's assistant to a sculptor, she was blogging everyday to motivate herself to keep creating. She was also singing in a band, teaching herself HTML, and doing freelance Illustration and Design work on the side. Inspired by her work as an artist's assistant, she decided to teach herself how to make jewelry and with $10, two hand me down jewelry pliers from an old lady in her childhood community, and some junk jewelry from a thrift store, she started her first business in Etsy. By 2010, she began to focus all of her energy on creative pursuits through jewelry design, graphic design, illustration, blog design, and blogging. By 2012, she became a featured persona on Pinterest along side 29 other major brands such as Martha Stewart, Dr Oz, Anthropologie and the U.S. Army in "Pinterest's 30 Days of Pinspiration." Today you can find her juggling many hats, from being the CEO of the Moorea Seal brand, to writing books, volunteering, motivational speaking, designing new lines of jewelry and accessories, and much more. ...more