From my earliest memories until my first thoughts in the mornings, I am constantly thinking and creating. I have always had a creative, free spirit. I learned to form my own opinion on my own, early as a child. I was never forced to do any activity I didn't like, allowing me to form my own choices and decisions, figuring out what I truly liked and enjoyed. I found through my earliest years that I like to be creative and think outside the box. I have always enjoyed coming up with solutions and designing things. Throughout the twenty-three years I have been creating, there are a few thinks that make me a designer.
SCRAPBOOKING:
Scrapbooking material has always been something I have collected and assorted with throughout my entire life. I have always been a saver my whole life. Every time I received a note, concert ticket, certain receipts and tags, stickers, things I see in magazines or on the streets that I find interesting, the list goes on. These many little collections always meant something bigger to me. I have always collaged my collections into artwork growing up as a child. I would often use my collections and make posters for my own liking, photo albums, and scrapbooks.
I realized that I very much do enjoy designing for myself. When I can design for myself there are no limits to my creative spirit. It also makes it easy because I know my own liking and exactly how I want something to look. Over the many years I have been designing my own scrapbooks, I have taken that style into my own design for my professional areas of work as well. Scrapbooking has taught me a lot about design. Ultimately, scrapbooking was one the first areas where I learned about design and placement of objects. It has taught me ways to think creatively outside the box, as well as learn how to combine different types of materials together. There is a certain aesthetic many people can think of when they think of scrapbooking, however that is where I believe that scrapbooking has taught me how to think outside of the box.
NOTEBOOKS:
Notebooks have been an extremely important part of why I became a designer during my life. I always had a notebook growing up. Whether it was for school or just one for fun, I have always enjoyed both journaling and doodling. Especially during school, that is where I would constantly be drawing. One of my most favorite things to do was to draw different words in various fonts. With that being said, because of the way my notebooks would always look once I finished them, I never would get rid of them. When they were supposed to be meant for taking notes, they turned into my own art masterpieces. For that, I had to keep them, and I get great satisfaction when I can design my own notebook. WRITTEN NOTES:
Since I have been in elementary school I have always saved hand written letters people have given me. I always have enjoyed a handwritten note over a store bought card. The way people thought to make cards and differences in the way they would make them was always so intriguing to me, I could never ever get rid of them. Elementary school is when I started passing notes to my friends, around first or second grade. Since then, I have saved all of my notes I would receive from my friends in a mason jar. Eventually that had transferred into saving hand written notes from family members and other people as well. When I began making my scrapbooks, I pulled out a lot of my hand written notes in order to incorporate them into my scrapbooks.
Hand drawn and hand written notes have been something I admired and had a liking since I was a little kid. This hand written aspect is still a part of who I am as a designer today, and always will be part of what made me a designer.
SOCKS:
As odd as it sounds, socks have been something that has been apart of me and made me who I am since I can remember. It may seem peculiar, but it is true. Though I was a tomboy when I was younger, I still had a sense of style, just in a different approach. I have always made socks a huge part of my fashion and many times I revolve my entire outfit around my socks and I still do this today.
I have grown a huge collection of socks over the years, especially sparkly socks. Socks are important to me because a lot of people just think of socks as the barrier between the shoe and foot. To me, there is so much more to them. I believe the small details are always the most important parts of not only the outfit, but life in general.
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