Behind the Canvas:
Inside Annika Wooton's Speed Painting World

Sports and fitness are 100% foreign to me, I’ll just be straight up honest. I come from the theater world, performing arts, so I was...

In this week’s blog, I get to brag on my home state a little bit and tell you why I decided to make the move to Wichita. As you’ve read...

The first time I went to therapy, I was 16, in the middle of my parent’s divorce, and it was a one-time encounter that didn’t sit well...

Ahhh motivation. Where is it? How do we get a piece? It’s so hard to find sometimes, isn’t it? It’s no different in pageantry because you...

Ok, so I get these kinds of questions a lot. “Annika, what do you do to get ready for Miss Kansas? Is it hard? Do you workout 10 hours a...

I have been competing in pageants for over a decade of my life. When I was 14, someone in my community helped out with a local pageant...

Why you do something is just as important as HOW or WHAT you do. That’s always been my belief. It’s the fuel that goes behind everything....

Hey everyone, welcome to my blog! For those of you who stumbled upon my page, thanks for being here! I’m Annika (like Hanukkah without...