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Celebrating Nature’s Beauty with Floral Designer @tulipinadesign

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Kiana Underwood (@tulipinadesign) doesn’t just stop and smell the roses — she looks for foliage, fruit and other wild things to combine them with. “I believe in creating arrangements that have the movement they would have in nature — asymmetrical, wild and organic,” says Kiana, an Iranian-born, San Francisco-based floral designer who combs the city’s flower mart and her own personal garden to create one-of-a-kind bouquets. Kiana attributes her love for fresh cut flowers to her Persian upbringing — “flowers are such a huge part of our culture, they define our new year” — but making a career out of it was an unexpected choice that came after she was married and raising children. “I never took a lesson from anyone. Flowers were just part of the entertaining and people would comment and ask, ‘Can you teach me how to do it?’” Now, Kiana splits her time between weddings, local photo shoots and teaching her craft around the world, in countries including South Korea, Italy and Ukraine. “When I first started in this business, I didn’t have events. It takes a lot of hard work and patience to achieve what you want. I also believe that you are constantly evolving. It’s funny, I once wanted to be a diplomat and here I am, traveling and making so much beauty.”

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Flying Free with @pythonpaige and Her Birds of Prey

To see more of Paige’s work with birds, follow @pythonpaige on Instagram.

As a child growing up in western Pennsylvania, Paige Davis (@pythonpaige) was entranced by the natural world. “I always knew I was going to work with animals when I grew up,” she says. “I just didn’t know what that work would be.” Years later, while earning a degree in wildlife and fisheries science in college, she studied all sorts of creatures, but birds of prey sparked her passion. “I loved working with raptors,” Paige says. “I was hooked.”

Today, Paige and her colleagues at Missouri’s World Bird Sanctuary (@worldbirdsanctuary) share their knowledge of hawks, falcons, owls and other raptors with hundreds of thousands of children and adults each year. Bald eagles, while among the most popular with audiences, “are not the friendliest birds,” Paige admits. “They can be a bit ornery — but they’re truly magnificent.” (Two of the sanctuary’s bald eagles, Lewis and Clark, are the “official eagles” of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.)

“There’s a quote [by French conservationist Jacques-Yves Cousteau], ‘People protect what they love, they love what they understand and they understand what they are taught,’” says Paige. “That’s basically why my job is important, and why I love it.”

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Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPsparkle

Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes and hashtags. For a chance to be featured, follow @instagram and look for a post every week announcing the latest project.

The goal of #WHPsparkle was to let shining, sparkling light catch your eye. Each week, we feature some of our favorite submissions from the project, but be sure to check out the rest here.

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Cooking Colorful Mexican-American Recipes with @chicanoeats

To see more of Esteban’s recipes, follow @chicanoeats on Instagram.

“Most of my memories revolve around really good food,” says Esteban Castillo (@chicanoeats), the Southern California-based blogger and cook behind the bold colors and flavorful recipes of Chicano Eats. After growing up in Los Angeles in a Mexican-American family, Esteban studied graphic design in college, a skill which prompted him to re-examine the way other Americans looked at Mexican food. “Here in the US, people think it’s just tacos and burritos, street food,” he says. Inspired by German-American artist Josef Albers’ work with monochromatic colors, Esteban began experimenting with placing his dishes — everything from Cara Cara orange mezcal sours to pulled pork sliders to coconut café de olla popsicles — against similarly colored backdrops. “By putting Mexican food in this minimalist, colorful setting, it just puts the spotlight on the food,” he says. While some of Esteban’s recipes are traditional Mexican, others are a fusion, a nod to both his heritage and his upbringing in one dish. “Honestly,” he says, “I can’t even distinguish between what’s Mexican and what’s American anymore.”

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Meet Trench and Maple, a Human-Dog Dynamic Musical Duo

To hear some of Trench and Maple’s favorite tunes, follow @acoustictrench on Instagram.

Since Trench (@acoustictrench) was a boy growing up in New England, he’s always been drawn to music. “One of my earliest memories is playing the air guitar in the kitchen when the Beach Boys came on the radio,” he says. Fast forward 20 years, and Trench plays as many instruments — from the guitar to the ukulele, harp to cello — and has an unlikely musical partner: his dog, Maple.

“I adopted her from a rescue shelter when she was a puppy,” says Trench, “And since then, she follows me everywhere. Whenever I play the guitar, she comes over and curls up next to me. I think the music comforts her.” As Trench began recording videos of himself playing, Maple naturally appeared in the background. “She’s essentially become the face of my music,” he says. Maple even joins in on the jam sessions once in a while, tapping on a drum or a tambourine. “She’s so smart and she picks up things really fast,” says Trench. “So I always have fun with her and see if she can join in.”