Succulents & Sage

Succulents & Sage Just a brand new small business making my way into the world

Go Fund Me for my sister Nova Beer 💕

Come visit me at The Neurospicy Market this weekend!
08/13/2025

Come visit me at The Neurospicy Market this weekend!

HAPPENING TODAY!! Come check out The Neurospicy Market today (Sat June 14) and tomorrow (Sun June 15) at the Edmonton co...
06/14/2025

HAPPENING TODAY!! Come check out The Neurospicy Market today (Sat June 14) and tomorrow (Sun June 15) at the Edmonton convention center!!

Can't wait to be vending again at the amazing The Neurospicy Market! It's always a joy to spend my weekend with the wond...
06/09/2025

Can't wait to be vending again at the amazing The Neurospicy Market! It's always a joy to spend my weekend with the wonderful community!

THIS WEEKEND is the next neurospicy market at the Edmonton Convention Center and I am so looking forward to another wond...
05/12/2025

THIS WEEKEND is the next neurospicy market at the Edmonton Convention Center and I am so looking forward to another wonderful weekend with the wonderful neurospicy community!

Spring craft market opens at 10 am today at Millwoods United Church!! Come check it out for some amazing mother's day gi...
05/10/2025

Spring craft market opens at 10 am today at Millwoods United Church!! Come check it out for some amazing mother's day gifts!!

This weekend I have a different market coming up on Saturday! The perfect last minute stop to get some cool mother's da...
05/06/2025

This weekend I have a different market coming up on Saturday! The perfect last minute stop to get some cool mother's day gifts! Come see me and fellow vendors at Millwoods United Church on Saturday between 10 am and 4 pm to find the perfect gifts for mother's day!

Today I learned that Nova and I started talking on June 1st 2021. My gotcha date for moving in with my new family is Jun...
04/30/2025

Today I learned that Nova and I started talking on June 1st 2021. My gotcha date for moving in with my new family is June 1st 2024. Life is crazy isn't it?

If I hadn't already been with my chosen family when we lost Nova, I probably wouldn't be alive today.

My mom held me while I wailed and cried as my heart shattered.

My best friend is dead.

I still have troubles believing it.
I still wail and cry about it to the point where I can't breathe.
I love her more than anything else in this world.

She is my sister!

Please help bring awareness to her story (yesterday's post) and please spread the go fund me link that can be found on my profile page on both Instagram and Facebook! I want to make sure the funeral costs get covered!

I love you Nova! I love you with everything I have left in me. I'm trying! I'm trying to stay alive, I'm trying to keep going!! I'm trying for you! 💕 I can't breathe without you, and yet I do. I don't know how but I know I'll do it for you!

Her last couple months. Late May, 2024 I called Nova to tell her some big news. I had decided I was leaving my abusive h...
04/30/2025

Her last couple months.
Late May, 2024 I called Nova to tell her some big news. I had decided I was leaving my abusive household in Ontario and moving in with my partner and their family in Edmonton Alberta. Nova was so so happy for me. They told me how much I deserved to finally get out of that place and how happy they were for me to finally be going to a place where I could truly feel safe, loved, and cared for!

We called while I packed my bag, preparing to stay at a friend's place for the night while my (now) chosen mom hopped on a plane and flew to Ontario to pick me up.

By the end of that week I, myself was hopping on a flight to Edmonton Alberta to move to my new home.

I arrived on June 1st (my gotcha date). I was really busy adjusting and trying to figure things out, not to mention my back injury acting up again leaving me practically immobile and wailing in pain for a number of days until a couple of emerge visits later when I finally got strong enough pain medication.

I called with Nova once after I arrived at my new home.

On June 17th, 2024 she hung herself ending up in the ICU for about 3 weeks before being taken off life support on July 3rd. We had messaged a day or two before she hung herself.

Why couldn't I have messaged her on that day?
Why was I so busy with my new home?
Did she think I didn't need her anymore because I was finally safe?

I didn't think anything of not talking for a while because we had gone for long ish periods of time without talking before just cause our lives got busy. I had the thought cross my mind to be worried that she hadn't responded to my messages but she always came back. She promised me she'd always come back.

She promised me she'd never leave me.

On the morning of July 4th my mom woke up to a message from my biomother
A screenshot of a Facebook post from her older sibling.

"Rest in peace lil sis, XOXO
I love you to the Moon & back.
Forever & Always"

My mom didn't know what it was but I recognized the name at the top of the screen. I grabbed my phone in a panic repeating "no no no no no no" over and over increasing in volume until I got to the page and saw it was true.

I cried.

I met Nova when I was 14. I had just opened up about years of sexual abuse and my entire life was falling apart after ne...
04/29/2025

I met Nova when I was 14. I had just opened up about years of sexual abuse and my entire life was falling apart after nearly my entire bio family took the side of my abuser.

Nova saved my life! I am alive today because of them. She held me together when no one else was there for me, and she made me laugh and smile when things like that didn't even feel possible anymore! They were the first person who stayed when everyone else abandoned me! She is my chosen sister and I love her with all of my heart!

Happy 22nd Birthday Nova! 💕

I will share more of our story in my next post.

NOVA'S STORY (as written in image)
In early summer of 2024, the world lost one
of its brightest stars. Nova Rose B**r (she/they)
was creative, kind, scrappy, and mischievous
even as a child. She inherited her grandmother's
artistic talent, kindness, and stubbornness
They loved crocheting, painting, drawing,
beading, and writing stories, poems, and songs.

Nova lived most of her life under the care of
MCFD. Though Nova fought hard for theirself,
they continued to be haunted by their
experiences in care. She died by su***de just a
few months after turning 21

Nova's greatest wish was that no other child
have to suffer the way she did. This sash was
created to honour Nova's memory and their
desire to see justice for children and families.

PLEASE read!!For the next couple days my content is going to be a bit different. This is my chosen sister Nova 💕 and tom...
04/28/2025

PLEASE read!!
For the next couple days my content is going to be a bit different. This is my chosen sister Nova 💕 and tomorrow its her birthday.

I am posting here because I am hoping to use this account to help spread awareness about her story.

Nova left this world a bit less than a year ago. And tomorrow I will share her story. Not because I need anything, but because she needs her story to be told and she needs people to be aware of how the system failed her in hopes that someday it won't fail others like her.

For the next couple of months while anniversaries come and go of the day she lost her voice in this world to the day she was taken off life support I will have the link to her Go Fund Me in my bio. I hope that you visit the site and read her story there in addition to checking back in for the story I will post tomorrow.

If you are able to contribute you will help pay for things such as funeral expenses and other costs.

And if you aren't in a position to do so, please help share her story and raise awareness about how the system failed her and how we can do better for others.

I love you Nova and I miss you every day with all of my heart. 💕

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