About

I’m June Foster. I’m 31 and I live in a converted Sprinter van I named “The Desk” – not because it sounds romantic, but because I actually work from it.

I spent four years as a junior buyer for a mid-size kitchenware brand in Austin before burning out, selling most of my furniture on Facebook Marketplace, and spending a long weekend retrofitting a secondhand van with my dad in his driveway in Tulsa.

I started keeping notes because I kept buying the wrong thing. Wrong size, wrong wattage, wrong material for a kitchen that measures 28 inches of counter space. I filled half a spiral notebook with product comparisons and return reasons before someone told me to just put it online.

So I bought this domain on a Tuesday night and published my first post the following Sunday. It was about a nesting pan set that cracked after six weeks.

I write the way I think. Specific, a little impatient with vague marketing claims, and deeply skeptical of anything described as “compact” without actual measurements. My reviews have dimensions in them. I photograph things next to a water bottle for scale because “small” means nothing without context.

I am not building a media company. I am building a reliable, honest resource for people living and cooking in small spaces – and writing things I wish someone had written before I wasted money finding them out myself.

That is the whole idea behind thegirlnotes.com.