​our story.
It began with three dear friends.

Intention Wares grew from conversations.
Questions.
Ideas.
Experiments.
And a shared curiosity about what it means to live a life that feels fully ours.
A life with intention.

We wondered...
What matters?
What makes a life satisfying?
What happens when we pay attention?
When we choose?
When we bring intention in.to the ordinary moments of being human?
And what could we create that might invite more of that in.to our own lives
and the lives of others?

So we began.
Not knowing exactly what Intention Wares would become.
Only knowing what we wanted to come from.

Intention.

Therese

Deb

Szara

​three of us.
Different by design.

Therese Hagen.
Deb Moore.
Szara Turpel.

Three people.

Different lives.
Different experiences.
Different ways of seeing the world.

Different in how we think.
What we notice.
What we know.
What we question.
What we bring.

And we like it that way.

Because somewhere between our different perspectives, experiences, curiosities and ways of moving through the world...
something else becomes possible.

We challenge one another.
Learn from one another.
Make one another laugh.
Ask better questions.
Change our minds.
Dream things up.
Bring things down to earth.
And keep returning to what matters.

Intention Wares carries something of each of us.
And something that could only exist because there are all three of us.

​here.
together.
with.
in.

​and then there is everyone else.

Three of us may have started Intention Wares.
We have never been here alone.

There are hands, minds, hearts and people woven throughout this story.
People who make with us.
Create with us.
Model.
Photograph.
Design.
Print.
Gather.
Question.
Share.
Show up.
Buy something.
Wear something.
Read something.
Tell a friend.
Offer an idea.
Lend a hand.
Believe in something before it quite exists.
​
Our community has shaped Intention Wares from the beginning.
This story has always been bigger than the three of us.

​Photographers
@deanheron70
@by.vikicsanicz
@timothywestphoto
​@justinpmorash

Make up Artists
​@joeyrooofficial

Models
@kellysomogyi_model
@miranda_modelling
@haileyg25
​@Jacqui_paul22
@juliasmodelling
​@by.vikicsanicz

Models
@joeyrooofficial
@olivia_via_555
@francis.abrill
@nav_kahl
@priya_kaur_lemon
@blissgamra_

Models
​@tommydoesitall
@mikschonert
@lucimqz
@westcoastblondemom
@moustachedad
@emmajoyfrank
@aurora_chets

Venues
@Studio531Architects
@thomasandbirchboutique
@stickywicket_yyj
​@unionclubofbc
@habitcoffee
@taoisisramenandtea
@poppiesfloralart

​from here.
Victoria, British Columbia.
This is home.
The place where Intention Wares began and where much of what we create continues to take form.

We value making close to home.
Knowing the people we work with.
Supporting skill, craft and livelihood in our community.
Choosing materials thoughtfully.
Making with care.

Not because we have found the perfect way to do business.
We haven't.
But because how something comes in.to the world matters to us.
​
So we keep asking.
Keep learning.
Keep looking for better ways.
And keep tending the relationship between what we make...
and the people, places and planet it belongs to.

unfolding.
always and in all ways.

What began in one form has found its way in.to many.
Wares to wear.
Experiences to enter.
Pages to wander through.
Places to gather.
Things to play with.
Ideas to live with.
And there is more we haven't met yet.

We don't know exactly what Intention Wares will look like years from now.
We hope we never entirely do.

​We want to keep listening.
Creating.
Experimenting.
Following what matters.

Letting things end when they are complete.
Making room for what wants to come next.
Always returning to the place we began...

intention.

​And seeing where it takes us.