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Hello! My name is Karrie and I am otherwise known as The Laundry Lass. I grew up in the Great Central Valley in a tiny country town near Fresno. I started working when I was 15 with my own lawn mowing business making more money than I could image at that age. I thought, “This is great!” Meantime, I expanded it to dog walking, dog sitting, washing cars, babysitting and a crafting business called Kreations by Karrie. I enjoyed working and making my own money, but time progressed and I grew up. I started attending the local community college and progressed to the university where I obtained a B.A. in Geography with a History minor. From there I obtained two teaching credentials and started teaching. I taught a variety of grades over 17 years and obtained two Masters during the mean time. Yet life seems to throw things at you. My brother and I took care of our ailing mother after a broken hip in 2002 leading up to 12 years later when she went to heaven in 2014 due to complications from strokes. I enjoyed reading, attending and volunteering at church, taking holidays, having a dog, going to Disneyland, sewing and crafting, and cooking, but that had all been put aside during my mother’s illness. I realized I needed to do something else with my life. So I changed careers and made a huge move to Southern California. I wanted to own a business and work for myself! I started investigating purchasing a laundromat by attending the Southern California Laundry Association’s workshops and connected with Beverly, who has become my mentor. That brought me to the realization that a personalized Fluff n Fold business was the route for me. I could work flexible hours according to client’s requests, work at the church, volunteer, sew, cook, read, etc. So I opened up a mobile service in 2015 taking care of clothes from Long <strong>Beach</strong> to Mission Viejo, but I was always looking to expand and when a local business was up for sale here in <strong>Laguna</strong> <strong>Beach</strong>, I jumped at the chance to own a brick and mortar shop. I officially became the new owner of Bay Cleaners on October 20, 2015, and renaming it The Laundry Lass--Concierge Dry Cleaning & Laundry and haven’t looked back. I provide not only dry cleaning and laundry (shirt laundry & fluff n’ fold) service but alterations, hand pressing, shoe/ leather/bag cleaning and repair, area rug cleaning, including FREE delivery! You name it, we do it; and, if we can’t do it, I find someone who can. Since opening, I have joined the <strong>Laguna</strong> <strong>Beach</strong> Chamber of Commerce and the <strong>Laguna</strong> Board of Realtor’s, met a lot of great people, and am so excited to watch my business grow as well as my participation in local community activities. It may sound weird to some, but I love opening a neatly folded and organized linen closet with a beautiful hint of a satisfying and lovely scent. The Laundry Lass has arrived! I will give your laundry the love it deserves! You may have heard that everything is energy... Einstein coined this phrase ages ago, and those of us who work in the realm of holistic energy and health know it to be deeply true. In terms of your nutritional choices and creating space for optimal health, selecting those foods and supplements that support you in your highest, most fully developed vibration is key to unfolding your greatest sense of well-being. When we are in the optimal state of vitality, we crave and consume highly nutritious food and supplements with greater bio-availability and cellular resonance. When our mind, body and spirit are in alignment, we no longer crave junk and non-food. Crap thoughts attract crap foods! This is why it’s very important to begin tuning in to our bodies and our emotions so that we can make better choices. When we open to the awareness that junk food binges and allowing lowvibration foods to enter our bodies are directly correlating to some dis-ease in the energetic field, pointing to flawed patterns and habits in our thoughts and stuck energies in the body. Using a multi-modal approach to wellness, healing and growth, Blissful Souls Wellness concierge works to elevate, uplift, unshackle and ‘vibe up’ clients in order that they can attain their highest potential for feeling great. 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