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  • Flagstaff
  • Travel
    • Travel
    • India (Yoga Teacher Training)
    • Peace Corps Ukraine
  • Lifestyle
    • Forestry + wildfire (my day job)
    • Yoga (my night job)
    • Our house + renovation work
    • Wedding planning
    • Our huskies
    • Sustainability
    • Books + movies + music
    • Skincare + haircare + physical self-care
    • DIY + decor
    • Odds and Ends
  • Stuff I like
  • About
    • About Randi
    • Contact
    • Professional ish (AKA: portfolio)
    • Disclosure and privacy policy

A tour of our final Flagstaff apartment

November 11, 2025 November 10, 2025 Randi

After more than four years in our Flagstaff apartment, we are finally moving out!

Ryan and I recently bought our first home here in Flagstaff, and we’re in the process of fixing it up and moving in. We’re reaching the end of the two-month overlap where we’ve been living in this apartment while fixing up the new house. Regardless of where things are at with our new house, we have to be out of this place by the end of the month. The moving boxes are piling up, this apartment is in disarray and — luckily — I took photos a few years ago to share.

We’ve renewed our lease countless times over the past four years. I took all these photos two years ago, when Ryan and I had briefly planned on moving south of Flagstaff to Happy Jack, the tiny tiny town he used to work in.

But, as detailed above… Ryan decided to cancel those moving plans last-minute and we re-signed our lease, and stuck it out here another two years until we bought our house last month.

This post has been living in my drafts folder for about two years now, and I’m excited to finally share.

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Wedding dress shopping in Phoenix

November 7, 2025 November 8, 2025 Randi

Am I too old to be a fairy princess on my wedding day? Probably. Am I still gonna be a fairy princess on my wedding day? Absolutely.

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October odds and ends: The ‘Showgirl’ release party, a wedding in Tucson, my birthday… and Ochi’s birthday!

November 3, 2025 November 2, 2025 Randi

10/12.

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What I read: October 2025

October 31, 2025 October 25, 2025 Randi

When I wasn’t working on house stuff or teaching yoga this month, I devoured a few books.

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A wedding mood board (and a small Pinterest rant)

October 27, 2025 October 25, 2025 Randi

Sorry, starting with a quick Pinterest rant here.

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Our new home, almost three weeks in (aka: ripping things out and finding hidden dick drawings)

October 24, 2025 October 22, 2025 Randi

Well, we’re three weeks into home ownership.

And so far all we’ve done is break a bunch of stuff and find a bunch of dicks drawn in our walls.

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We got older, (When We Were Young)… A weekend in Las Vegas for WWWY festival featuring Panic! At The Disco & Blink-182 (among many more)

October 20, 2025 October 20, 2025 Randi

I finally got to make my much-anticipated return to the annual When We Were Young music festival in Vegas after a two-year hiatus.

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Meet our new house (aka: Step into the 1980s with us and see our “before” photos!)

October 17, 2025 October 15, 2025 Randi

Well, we’re less than two weeks into home ownership and our house is already chaos. We’ve been ripping walls out, adding walls in, scraping down popcorn ceilings, rewiring, tossing appliances and cabinets to the curb and undoing several of the “aesthetic” choices our home’s previous owners made.

I wanted to share a few of our house’s “before” photos (the few I was able to take before Ryan just went straight for the walls with a hammer) so you can see what we’re working with.

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Hello, homeownership! WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!

October 7, 2025 December 19, 2025 Randi

Ryan and I are homeowners!

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September odds and ends: Thrifting, 2000s night and brown butter honey pistachio cookies

October 3, 2025 October 2, 2025 Randi

9/12.

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Randi M. Shaffer

Hi! I'm Randi. I spend my days working in forestry and wildfire, my nights instructing yoga and my weekends exploring northern Arizona (and beyond). I'm a former journalist, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and a Midwest native. Welcome!

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