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Lavender Lathers: Craft Lake City Kid Row Artisan

DIY Festival, Utah State Fairpark for the 13th Annual DIY Festival Presented By Harmons. The 2021 Festival features the largest offering yet of artisans, craft foodies, performers and much more. Read about some of the fantastic Utah DIY-ers participating at this year’s festival in the following pages, and head to craftlakecity.com for more information on the 13th Annual DIY Festival. Photo: John Barkiple Lavender Lathers was established by 14-year-old Utah native Elizabeth Ssejinja. After Ssejinja was diagnosed with cancer in 2018, her family began to create homemade gifts for each other. “I decided to make soap. [I then] decided to make soap to raise money to give back to the charities that did so much to support me,” she says. Ssejinja learned to make soap from pure experimentation. “I experimented [with] melting shavings from other bars of soap, but it didn’t work,” she says. “So, I bought glycerin soap, molds, colorants and started learning from there.”

The Curvy Spoon: Craft Lake City Food

DIY Festival, Utah State Fairpark for the 13th Annual DIY Festival Presented By Harmons. The 2021 Festival features the largest offering yet of artisans, craft foodies, performers and much more. Read about some of the fantastic Utah DIY-ers participating at this year’s festival in the following pages, and head to craftlakecity.com for more information on the 13th Annual DIY Festival. Photo: John Barkiple The Curvy Spoon is a small-batch, artisanal mustard company owned and operated by Valerie Koonce. “People either love it or hate it,” Koonce says, “but mustard is a little magical, too.” With simple ingredients, she is able to create a wide range of options, from her personal favorite, the ALTA (with red wine, cranberry, and shallots), to the best-selling LOUISVILLE (with horseradish). Her husband’s experience in the beer industry helped them experiment with different blends using beer, cider and wine. “The flavor possibilities are endless,” Koonce says.

Bohemian Brewery: Twenty Years of Authentic Czech Beer

Bohemian Brewery, founded by Joe and Helen Petras, has stood as a steadfast institution in the ever-changing Salt Lake brewery landscape, offering authentic beer, food and hospitality straight from the heart of Europe. Bohemian’s old-school and authentic approach sets it apart from its peers, rooted firmly in ancient lagering and brewing traditions passed down through centuries. At the turn of the millennium, the Salt Lake brewery scene barely resembled what it is today, as it was restricted by tighter alcohol laws and a more conservative attitude towards drinking. However, the 2002 Winter Olympics waited just around the corner, promising to bring immense cultural and legislative change. “A lot of Utahans themselves were looking at what our image was to what an international crowd would perceive,” says

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Virtualized: Valerie Rose Sterrett – SLUG Magazine

Virtualized Valerie Rose Sterrett was bitten by the “performing bug” at a young age. By the age of five, she played the lead role and was the youngest performer in her school’s production of Annie. But music and performance had already been in Sterrett’s bloodline for generations. Sterrett pulls inspiration from her family’s extensive performative roots while encompassing her own singer-songwriter flair, showing that she is a born-creative and an ever-evolving musician. Today, she exercises this history through her alternative-psychedelic music. A source of inspiration for Sterrett was her great aunt Isabel, a ragtime performer for local bars in the ‘30s, until she was hit on the head with a beer bottle after. “A jealous fight broke out with her husband and another man,” Sterrett says. This family history incident inspired an unheard song of Sterrett’s that she plans on releasing with a music video set in a vintage bar scene. The song is called “Miss Arizona,” referencing a time when this same great aunt competed under this title in a