a little about me :)

i'm vegan for the animals first, after that it's for my health :)

Hi guys! Here is a little blurb about me... My name is Lyn Rose, and I decided to make a blog/website with a few friends, that would hopefully draw more and more people to the vegan lifestyle... Beautiful-Vegan.

facing my fear of the open ocean!

I am a very driven soul who works hard to open up truth on many subjects. I, like everyone else at here at beautiful-vegan, have a quiet form of activism, in the sense that I don't preach to anyone. Instead I let people come to me and the website.

i love you :)

Soon I will do more public engagements where I share my insights on the subject of Veganism, and how to live a meaningful life. We all run around trying to figure ourselves out, and I finally feel like I know who I am, and what direction I'm headed in.

We called our site Beautiful Vegan because we have watched a real push by mainstream media to label Vegans as cardboard-eaters (that our food is tasteless and lacking nutritional value), so we wanted to associate a positive word with it.

Watermelon is my favourite food!

I also believe, from my own experience, that becoming Vegan changes our lives for the better- without question, and that it literally makes us more beautiful on the outside, while revealing the beauty of our true selves... our soul.

my tent and tent food in Costa Rica!

I would say I'm happiest in the woods, by the water or sitting in front of a fire somewhere, doing absolutely nothing at all. I guess that makes me a tree-hugging hippie or something, but who doesn't feel wonderful communing with nature?

I am a writer, painter (two degrees in fine arts), graphic designer, blogger, digital photographer, adventurer, Vegan chef, pirate, mermaid, woodland fairy, and jewelry maker, among so many other things, but none of them define me.

What drives me is the desire to become a better person, and to hopefully inspire others to seek the same thing. This planet is lovely, and so are all the creatures who share it with us. I have been vegan for over 13 years now, and was vegetarian for half of my life before that- it was just logical.

dear future..

I wrote a book with my son, Josh, about our Vegan lifestyle, called  Conscious Evolution: Beautiful Vegan Recipes.  It took us more than three years to finish, with over 100 awesome recipes, journal entries about our backpacking travels, and all sorts of interesting facts :) And now we're writing another one, so stay tuned!

our first book, conscious evolution!

I love to prepare amazing food, and with a sense of adventure (and humour), I have managed to become quite good at it! My son Josh, learned at a very young age how to combine flavours, and he can make practically anything. He's 21 now, six foot three and very physically active. I raised him Vegetarian since birth, and then Vegan from about the age of eight, but I would have gone straight to Vegan if I had been more educated on the subject.

this is my soulmate, James :)

I brought Josh up on my own, and with the help of my good friend Ken, who adopted him when he was two years old. I home-schooled Josh for many years, and we traveled to different places, often living in a simple tent, with nothing more than what fit in our backpacks. These were my favourite times, with almost no belongings, and new people to meet every day. Life has been very good to us, and I am truly grateful.

i love doing photo shoots with my friends!

I'm now working on many new projects that will be revealed in the near future, so stay in contact and come along for the ride. I love hearing from you, and I read every single email and comment. It makes my day :) I apologize for not getting back to all of you, but I don't have enough hours in the day to keep up anymore. 

Everyone's true nature is goodness, but it takes courage to let that come out, so my only advice is that you really listen to what your body and soul needs. 

Have a beautiful day!

Ps. I finally joined facebook, so click here to visit me!: