08/18/2026
2021💛
Looking back on 2021 I saw a lot of really beautiful things that happened in my life. In 2021 I was 24 for most of the year, and turned 25 towards the end. This is the year I went full-time with my business (only a little more than a year in), rebranded my business (hello Erica Haskett Studio, goodbye Erica Haskett Fine Art), setup my first little art studio (in my mom’s spare bedroom with Luna and Albus’s help), discovered creative portraits and started shooting those along with weddings (and even booked my first + many more of both of those!!), went to New York City and Disney for the first time, witnessed and captured my best friend get engaged, had a few successful and unsuccessful art shows (that’s just how those things go), sold my art around town and online, went on so many trips (this was definitely the year my travel bug fully kicked in), spent $300 on 3 teeny tiny tubes of YinMn blue paint (the newest color in the world!!), bought myself a new laptop, and just all around had a pretty good year it seems like based on my camera roll, which would have been the first solid year in a long time to be honest. 2021 certainly wasn’t without it’s struggles and heartbreaks, but it was the first year I wasn’t completely gripped and occupied with a lot of heavy, toxic family and work things, and could really go all in on me and my dreams by the end of it, which is so beautiful to be able to look back and see.✨
Other things I noticed about 2021 when going back through my camera roll–2021 it was the year of filters (why did I pick such a dark one, and why did I put it on eeeeeverything?!), boomerangs were poppin, horizontal videos were in, my editing style was awful (so glad I figured that out, and that people booked me when I was doing weird things!), and clearly I had no idea what I was doing fashion wise post covid, but ya know, we grew through those things!😂��2021 Erica-thank you for all that you did. You hoped it would get you where you are now, and you’re here and it did. I’m proud of you for chasing your dreams despite everything.😭🩷