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About Us
Our partnership is called Three Hip Chics and The Angel Story is our first business venture together. We believe in wonder, magic and the power of dreaming big. We believe people are innately good…we all have a little angel inside in spite of our human frailties!!! We like to laugh, eat good food, enjoy our community and help make the world a gentler place.
We hire friends and neighbors and pay a living wage. Whenever possible we buy recycled packing products or they can be recycled and are ecologically sound. We try to buy locally when possible to tread lightly on Mother Earth…so our children and their children’s children can enjoy the beauty we get so much pleasure in experiencing.
We support everyone in following their hearts' desires and want everybody to thrive and prosper. To that end, a percentage of our company’s profits are used locally and globally to support causes in which we believe. The sayings on the angel plaques and tiles spread the message of hope, love and faith.
E’layne Koenigsberg
Some of my first and fondest memories were designing clothes with my nana at age four. Drawing my poodle was a passion. Growing up mom and I took many crafty classes together. My hands were always busy. When I started college I was going to be an art major. In my first art class the teacher told the class to draw an egg. I raised my hand and told him I wasn’t inspired to draw an egg. He assured me I was in the wrong class. It was that day my creative spirit was squelched and my major changed to sociology.
It took a spiritual quest to regain my desire, inspiration and confidence to make art and to get in touch with my creative spirit…months camping in Shenandoah National Park, mime school in Boulder, Colorado and zig zagging across America in a Volkswagon camper. My journey took me from living in Florida most of my life to landing in Orinda, California to attend John F. Kennedy University. Majoring in the field of Transpersonal Counseling Psychology and studying Jungian dream work and ancient visual symbols began to re-awaken the artist and wild woman within. Photography was also food for my soul.
Love took me from California to Maui, Hawaii, where I began my business, “Gypsy In Me,” over two decades ago, selling hand-painted clothing and designing jewelry. In addition to traveling the art show circuit for twenty years, in 1996, I co-founded an art gallery called Wild Women Gallery. Tallahassee, Florida, is now home where I manage a thriving artist community call Railroad Square Art Park. Miccosukee Land Cooperative offers me a quiet abode in the woods with four cats in the yard, at least one Collie on the sofa, in a beautiful community of conscious and loving people.
Lora Davids
I’ve been an artist all my life. When I was young, my mother was constantly doing little art projects to make our home beautiful. Like the Shake & Bake commercial, “I helped.” My mood is my driving force for creativity. When I’m rebellious, my art is rebellious. When I have a broken heart, my art displays a broken heart. I lived in Albuquerque for 18 months and it inspired a lot of Native American, Southwest adobe art. Art is in my soul and has no fear expressing itself.
I met E’layne and her photo of the drain pipe angels in 2006. Of course I was amazed and had to see them for myself, so I went on the pilgrimage to the coast of California photographing E’layne photographing the angels. Though they are no longer visible as before, they still stand behind the massive rock that has formed. It’s simply awesome. I feel very blessed to be a part of this venture.
Julie Rogers
I have been friends with E’layne for 20 years and live in the same community. I have always thought her artwork needed to get out in the world in a big way and am thrilled to be part of The Angel Story.
Being an outgoing and outdoorsy woman with a big heart, I am happiest in the natural world (under the blue sky of morning, watching constellations and satellites in the night sky, peering at birds through my binoculars, paddling rivers and when my hands are in the dirt). Adventure travel is high on my list of things I love to do – white water rafting and hiking are just a few of the ways I spend my vacation time. In 1984 I joined 30 other people in the Walk for the Earth, a 3,700 mile, seven month journey from California to Washington, DC in support of the mother earth, Native American rights and a non-nuclear future.
My work life outside of The Angel Story revolves around social justice for women and children. For the past 20 years I have worked in state government and non-profit organizations developing state and national policies and programs that help low-income women who work in child care get access to college education. When I’m not working my “day job” or working on The Angel Story, I garden, do yoga, run, sing and spend time hanging out with my friends and my best and trusted four-legged friend Max!
