Growing up in Eastern Oregon on a farm surrounded by animals, Nature, and vast expanses of sky provided fertile ground for a life of dreaming and discovery. Whether that meant cutting photos of faraway destinations from a great aunt’s National Geographic collection or, later, taking bold solo travels to Croatia, Ukraine, Mexico, or Greece, the love of time and different places has been a crucial element in the fiber of the story I have woven.

Initially collecting tabletop and linens, Edesia’s Table was born from a genuine desire to create a sense of home, hearth, and belonging. Named for the Roman goddess of the Feast, Edesia is the entity who gently embues all aspects of my life. Whether in my newly adopted small southern Italian town near the Ionian Sea, or on a train, plane, or ferry headed for vistas yet to be explored, I carry a sense of home wherever I go. Shifting away from linens to vintage jewelry felt like a natural progression on this journey – a way to carry mementos that hold memories of a moment without the anchor weight that can impede easy movement. Traveling light encapsulates my love of beauty, of the ephemeral sense of time and place that occurs once, and then forever in our cells.

Currently, I am melding my love of jewelry, travel, and making myself at home in the world by creating carefully considered and curated personalized itineraries focusing on my most loved places in the Mediterranean. To see parts of our world which are just off the well-trod paths, to delight in foods fresh from the farm and the sea, and to share my love of the Mediterranean cultures with those who wish to come along, is my idea of the best possible way to experience time. We are allotted just so much and spending it, as Edesia might, feels right.

I hope you will join me.

xo – Ashe