Who We are
Hello! We are Jade & Cory, a husband and wife creative team based in Portland, Oregon. We started Endlessly Enraptured back in 2012 with the intention of sharing our creative projects, conversations with cool people we meet, and a little bit here and there about our lives.
Endlessly Enraptured has gone through several iterations, and essentially means “to be delighted without end.” This means our sharing things that interest us, makes us happy, or subjects we feel are important. It does not mean we are prophesying ''the rapture” or anything to do with a spiritual implication (believe us, we’ve had questions).
We’ve been together 14 years and married 8 years. We like to binge watch anything that tickles our fancy, love to go check out new things around our city, and travel when we get the opportunity. We have two cats we adopted from the Oregon Humane Society (which we gleefully support), names Nimbostratus, or Nim for short, and Argus, or Gus for short. Nim is a Russian Blue mix, and Gus is an American Short Hair Tuxedo mix.
Jade
Jade has been an artist her whole life. Since she could pick up crayons, she has been coloring, drawing, painting, collaging, photo-taking and creating endlessly. She and her work have been featured in Food & Wine magazine, Buzzfeed, Kinfolk magazine, Hemispheres magazine, Marie Claire, AGLOW magazine, Trotter magazine, Local Wolves and more. She earned her BFA in Illustration from PNCA, and obtained a Master of Arts in Education from Pacific University.
Jade lives with a multi-faceted autoimmune condition most commonly referred to as an autoimmune trifecta. This trifecta significantly effects the way she works, is able to take part in everyday life, and what she is able to eat, but she is determined to find the balance she deserves to achieve an at least partially normal lifestyle. Through this, she has become a advocate for those living with autoimmune conditions, chronic illnesses and mental health conditions. Jade believes honesty, transparency, communication and awareness are some of the most beneficial tools in helping others better understand these issues as well as create a more supportive and empathetic conversation around the challenges of living with these issues.
Jades other passions are novels & children’s books (and hopes to publish her own series of children’s books one day soon), playing and taking care of her sweet kitties, sustainable fashion and beauty, vegan recipes and lifestyle, finding the best iced cold brew and all things vintage.
Cory
Cory fancies himself a Jack of all trades. He dabbles in a lot of different things and definitely has a hard time sticking to just one. Professionally, he is a data and strategy minded marketing automation, web, social, and brand expert with a consulting and solutions architect background. He received his BS in Communications from PSU, and earned his MBA in Marketing from Marylhurst University.
Cory is an enormous Mental Health advocate, having personally faced anxiety and depression since he was very young. He is a major proponent for therapy and learning about ones own mental health and how to best find work/life balance. He additionally is a Body Positivity advocate, believing that being healthy inside and out is closely knit with learning to love the person you are as is, and to strive to achieve holistic health, not a particular weight or to fit a particular size. He too has gone through significant weight loss and gain journey, and knows how important it is to find balance.
As allies of the LGBTQIA community, he and Jade both advocate for equity and equality among humans of all orientations, genders, sex and backgrounds. They believe only through transparency, communication and understanding can we create a healthy and safe community, society and world for all.
Outside of his beliefs in advocation, he is a coffee fiend, music-nerd, conspiracy theory / paranormal / Mandela effect enthusiast, loves being a cat-dad, is a podcast addict, has become involved in the practice of meditation and highly encourages all to try it especially if you seek more balance in your life.
