she's been my little helper since she was like three hi everyone I'm Diana Palm
from dianapalm.com and we're doing a special Mother-Daughter TAG for
Mother's Day video this is my daughter Loni Hey and Loni actually has
her own YouTube channel as well I do yeah so um you'll have I'll put her
links down below and you can definitely check that out when we're finished I'll
be asking Loni some questions I would like you to tell us a little bit about
yourself hmm hi my name is Loni um I'm 25 years old
and this is my best friend in the whole wide world and I am an artist I'm a
painter and I also create YouTube videos on my own YouTube channel I love
Instagram I am very much into my Instagram so as an artist Loni can you
tell us how your art has changed yeah I think when I first started painting I
was really into like fairies and like very much fantasy surreal type but not
quite like frilly I like kind of like the darker creepier stuff cuz I think
I've really learned how to hone in on my own personal style for sure and kind of
I would like to describe it as a sort of like minimalism meets like witchy and like
feminine power said a lot of my figures of my work are feminine like aspects of
myself but they're not and I feel like that's why a lot of women connect with
my art and I think that's really cool too is I've had a couple people that I
know actually got tattoos in my artwork which is just like the biggest honor in
the whole world like knowing that your art is gonna be on somebody's body
forever it's just like it's incredible so it's the best feeling where do you
think you got the desire to paint oh my god just growing up with you like I'd
see you and you'd have your paints out and you'd be like blasting Sade and
like yeah drinking wine and like there's this big monster canvas in our living room
and you're just like Our Love Is King...throwing paint on it and like
This Is No Ordinary Love...and I'm like all right cool you were an
artist before I was an artist and I think it was really cool to be able to
grow up in an environment where like my mom was just very free and like artistic
and like really and you paid a lot of women yourself and you're very much of a
strong feminine presence in your life and I think that
even way that you chose my name means feminine form of man that's like a
feminine power I didn't actually ever teach her anything she just came out and
did it and and knew how to hold a paintbrush and just started creating art
I mean still you were a baby you're creating art and that was really very
very cool for me to see yeah and really really fun to see it develop throughout
your whole life and all the different phases that your art went through what
is your favorite part about being raised in Stillwater there's something about
Stillwater especially when you grow up here that is it's always always always
gonna be home I'm sure other people feel the same way about their hometowns but
um it's it's just an indescribable feeling you know there's something about
you just resonate here differently and I don't know if it's just the old
architecture if it's the history if it's the fact that I have memories of every
single building that I've ever walked or driven past in this town maybe it's like
a past life thing we don't know Stillwater is right on the river and
it's the birthplace of Minnesota so it was Lumberjacks and there's
mansions everywhere which are mostly bed-and-breakfast now downtown is really
charming really is like a small-town feel it's a huge sense of community yeah
it's really unique here how do you think living here has influenced your art or
what you desire to do for a living oh so when I was a kid I always wanted
to move away and like you know be that person that like comes back and is
like what's up bitches you know what I mean you know you're a kid but you don't you
don't value things the way that you value them when you're an adult and like
I think now having the perspective of living other places like Florida and
Wisconsin no matter where I live at any time in my life I know that I'm always
gonna come back here because this is my hometown this is my home and like
there's people here that they're not gonna care like who I am or what I
do I could be you know living on a street corner and they'd be like cool
they treat me the exact same you know I could be like a billionaire I could like
whatever and they to me the exact same as I've always been because they know
who I am and I think that's something that's you can't replicate that anywhere
because I never had a sense of home anywhere until
I realized you know what this is it I love the people here I went to school
here my memories are here but like there is such a deep sense of community and
you're exactly right it doesn't matter if you're a have or have not everybody
treats everybody the same yeah and it's a very valuable trait let's see so what
was the hardest thing about being raised by a single mom mmm Can I say the hardest
thing and the best thing yeah okay I mean I think there's a lot of like
stigma against like being raised by a single mom you know there's a lot of
stereotypes to go along with that as an only child being raised by single mom
you kind of see other kids and friends around you that have two parents and
what their life is like and how it's different from yours and it's easy to
compare those two things and be like Oh like they have like a regular family
structure and they have like regular things that they do and they you know
grandparents are really involved and it's easy to kind of idealize those
things but on the flip side I think that being raised by a single mom is a really
unique experience especially if they have the relationship that you and I
have because it's almost like we're almost sisters and I even remember being
at like young child and introducing you being like this isn't my mom this is my
sister you're a three years old so this is my sister Diana no no honey I'm your mommy
that's why you have to listen to my rules I'm the mom It's a very unique
relationship I think and and that same token I think if I had been raised in a
family structure that was very traditional with a lot of my friends had
been I wouldn't be the same person that I am today I think that I have a very
unique sense of freedom and independence and I think that especially being raised
by you you've always encouraged my creativity and my uniqueness and like
allowed me to be who and what I wanted to be in my life and I think that's why
we're so close now is because like there was never any like Oh mom well you are
very self guided and so I just let you encourage that instead of stifling that and
like I think that I you know getting older I was able to really appreciate and value that
she's a cool one I'm very lucky I'm very lucky
so did you ever miss not having a sibling would you
rather have a brother or a sister ooh if you had asked me this question as a child
I would have said sister for sure because I'm a total girly girl and I'm
all about like makeovers and like dance parties is like that's all I did with my
friends growing up do makeovers and play Barbies like a huge Barbie house so
she built me like from from scratch so I was really like it was the coolest thing as
an adult I would say I'd prefer to have a brother and I think just because I'm a
little bit selfish and I don't want to have our bond I don't know I feel like
having a sister would really change our dynamic I had a total flashback of my
all-time favorite Mother's Day when I know exactly what you're talking about
I went out with my friends and I let you have a slumber party yep we were up all
night long and we all like were in costume and like we did like our makeup
all cool which is like basically glitter and lip gloss cuz we're ten and we
worked on dance moves all night long hair scrunchies galore
guys lets surprise mom with a really cool dance
and like we we brought you breakfast too - yeah but it was like the
most disgusting it was actually disgusting yeah we're like she's gonna love it
it's going to be so good
we brought the boom box upstairs oh my god i loved it the big
boom box and pressed play and then we're like...and dance
all over and like a choreographed dance
all over like all over my bed and I'm watching like this choreographed dance
like spastically all over my room it was like the best ever it was really fun and I just
loved her friends so yeah it was that was really special
that's a moment in time keep that one
how about you what are your thoughts and
feelings about motherhood about you being a mother Oh Oh God um it's
genuinely it's never really been something that I've wanted for myself
I've never felt that that desire that call and I feel like that's really
important to have if you're gonna if you're gonna bring a human being into
the world cuz I know you had that I actually felt Loni's spirit come to me
and that's all I could think about that's all I wanted to do like I always
felt so much more comfortable around adults and like people that were you
know older than me and wiser than me I love kids you know now I can look
at them and be like oh my god they're so cute and like fun but like having one of
my own is just like ooh but I always said that if I ever had kids I wanted to
adopt I feel like it's important to have that call you know because I spent
you're devoting my life to another being kind of absolutely that's a good way to put it
as having that call yeah and it's super possible that I could meet somebody and
be like I want to have your babies...that could happen I mean I want to have your babies
which I have not had that happen yet but I'm not saying it's not going to
that could happen let's face it
this Queen needs an heir
oh that's a topic of conversation do you want to talk about that
yeah I think I was about eight years old my mom donated her eggs
yeah so although I'm an only child I do have siblings out there and oh
that's true yeah she would have a lot of siblings so we don't know how many
but you did get a bouquet of flowers
I would love to meet them someday yeah if they were open to it I would be like
yeah I was a single mom still and I was like I don't see any man around that I
want to marry (eew) so
but I knew I had good eggs because I could see in Loni that
she was brilliant and beautiful and kind and healthy yeah I want to meet you if
you look in the mirror and you like look just like Loni let us know anyways I
just thought that was the right thing to do um kind of just like girl to girl
like hey I'm not gonna use my eggs but they're healthy so I want to give them to you
I love that I think that that's such a maybe I'm gonna do that i don't know
that makes me feel like oh my god I'm like emotional yeah I love that I
think that's really beautiful yeah yeah (awe) actually that's on topic still
it's still on topic for Mother's Day If have a sister like I know I said before that I
kind of wanted a brother but also like if I have a sister that'd be like so cool if you're a girl
and you're like oh she wants her brother and like don't worry
about it don't worry about it I said nothing just forget what I said
how do you feel about raising pets oh I love pets I want all the pets I love cats I've got a
cat right now named Gatsby and we're like this like literally I come home and
I can hear him upstairs in my room going mom mom like he's meowing but it sounds
like he's a mom and I'm like so like that is my child regardless if I had
kids or not I'm always gonna have pets all the time...pets... actually my roommate
and I were just dog sitting we had five dogs at her house for like a week and a
half so that was chaos but it was great every time I came home it was
like just pure love like all the dogs wanted to like kiss you and you're like
thank you (laugh) you feel so special
like I didn't do anything and they're like I love you unconditionally and you're like oh my god
what are you going to school for i'm college for media communications and I'm liking it quite a bit
i'm really interested in media so music and film and television all in it just all the
creative stuff I want to be a part of all of it and you just have an art show
I just had an art show I did yeah I can put your link
I'll put tags and I'll put your link yeah right underneath and then like any
web sites or social sites I'll put those under the video too actually I just love
her Instagram I'm kind of a still a newbie to Instagram and so she's been my
inspiration actually she's been my inspiration for all of it cuz I'm fifty (50!)
people my age we don't come by social media very easily I learned from you now
I mean you're you surpassed me so I'm like wow girl get it well that's that Capricorn thing right
I know right and I'm Aquarius so I'm like I'm not gonna like I'm not gonna do that today
I get spaced out and then I'm like whoa...look at her go I
should do that again...we keep each other rolling yeah yeah that's true
okay Loni Dament so we'll have all her links down below for you I hope that you
guys have a wonderful lovely Mother's Day if you're if you're a mother cat mom
yeah any mom dog mom god bless you and happy mother's day truly and if you're
not a mother happy Mother's Day to your mother yes then we cover all the bases
no but now I'm saying it to you Happy Mother's Day
oh...thank you (nobody knows when we're recording this) yeah I appreciate it honey
where's the boom box
oh the man's home... there was a burp first and then and excuse me the man's home (laughing)
alright Happy Mother's Day