Hustlin'

Still Working!

Making an identity for my oldest friend, the talented Katie VanTubergen. The beginning of the project is always my favorite!

On failure, and the beginning of something new.

Photo credit: Michael Patrick O'Leary, http://www.michaelpatrickoleary.com/

ON FAILURE //

“I don’t know” is my new mantra. It is a very liberating sentence to speak aloud. By saying that you don’t know, you open yourself to learning and to be taught. So this is a blog of “I don’t know”.

 I want to write. I want to learn. I want to open myself up to new experiences. I want to explore new ideas and learn to be confident in my own voice. So this is a space for me to explore ideas about design, about life, about why we make, and why it is important. I fully expect to get it wrong, and fall on my face, and to miss the point more than once. However, a wise person once said

 “When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap”

(Cynthia Heimel) 

Here goes nothing!

Small Things

It is scientifically proven that the smaller something is, the cuter it is. 

Yesterday I whipped up this little quilt. 

I hand stitched it, which brought back all kinds of warm memories of being a small child 

and playing with needle and thread and fabric. 

I always knew there was a kind of magic about making things out of cloth. 

It is nice to know that those feelings are still in me.