![]() She found a 1970 Airstream Ambassador on Craigslist and quickly got to work, completely renovating it to create the bright and cheerful space she had imagined. Founder Emma Davisĭavis’ new vision was an Airstream, painted with bright yellow lemons and stripes, that sold children’s clothing. Especially as a mother - with a stepson, young daughter and another daughter on the way - this time, it had to be sustainable, even energizing. However, she knew this time it needed to be different. Davis enjoys the holistic and dynamic nature of running a business, and all the interesting challenges that come along with it. While she’s always been good at the design part, she got bored quickly when designing clothes herself because the process ended once the design got to the store. She had studied design and marketing management in college and has a true talent for both. However, amid the demands and joys of those first few years of motherhood, Davis started to have a new vision: one that not only more aligned with her new identity, but (perhaps even more importantly) one that actually sounded fun.ĭavis didn’t want to give up on owning and running her own store completely she knew she was good at it. So in 2015, after almost five years of business and soon after the birth of her first daughter, she called it quits. ![]() “The overhead sucked the joy out of it for me,” says Davis. Running it had become exhausting, and the rent unsustainable, especially after a new high-rise destroyed the parking logistics for her store. This caused her to take a long, hard look at her business, which at that time was a brick and mortar store in downtown Austin that sold women’s clothing. MORE: Visit Potion for Nontoxic Facials Tailor-Made to Your SkinĮmma Davis experienced this same dramatic shift in identity and lifestyle when she became a mother about seven years ago. What comes, instead, is an often hectic but just as fulfilling new sense of time and purpose: those that include changing diapers, chasing kids around the house, and, while still shopping, it’s now for stuff for your kids. Gone are the days when you were idly sipping wine into the evenings, or catching that yoga class after work, or going shopping with friends for hours on the weekends. A major citrus grower has also grown this variety and coined it, Zebra lemon, for its striped rind.As many mothers know, having children often comes with a sort of reinvention. Pink lemons are popular with home gardeners and growers as both an ornamental and a citrus tree. ![]() The Pink lemon is a spontaneous mutation that was first discovered on an ordinary Eureka lemon tree in Burbank, California around 1930. Once harvested, they taste much like regular lemons though when mature, the flavor can be less acidic. Harvest is also difficult because these trees have thorns and widely spaced fruit. The trees are usually poor producers, perhaps because their variegated leaves are low in chlorophyll. Its immature fruit has green and white stripes the older fruit loses the stripes and develops flesh pigmented pink from lycopene, which also colors pink grapefruit. This fruit is actually a mutant found on an ordinary Eureka lemon tree in Burbank, CA, around 1930. ![]() Rare Variegated Pink lemons, have green-striped skin when young and are less acidic than regular lemons when they reach maturity.
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