This shop has become an outlet for my late night projects! Pillows are one of my MOST favorite ways to change the look and feel of a room. It is a quick way to spice up your style with color and texture. The "perfect" pillow can complete a room and tell a story about YOU!!!! You will most certainly find pillows in this shop along with whimsical fancies for your child and baby.
Fabric, cozy rooms, paint charts, colored pencils and floor plans are some of my favorite things. I started decorating my "imaginary" dream house when I was in kindergarten. I had a floor plan all drawn out in minute detail including a pool in the basement (say what?!) and a cat stenciled wall border that I designed for the kitchen! I wish that I could find those original drawings. I have since completed kindergarten and went on to study art and interior design in college.
I think my parents were pretty happy when I graduated and moved out of the house. They never got used to my late night projects. I think they were scared to get out of bed in the morning and find another room of their house painted a bold new color or all of the furniture rearranged again! I even painted blue on blue vertical stripes in my bedroom the night before my high school graduation. Nothing like pulling an all nighter the night before the most important day of your high school career?!
Now I am a residential interior designer and I have had clients in 3 different cities in Indiana. I even worked on a high profile college basketball coach's home and the university's locker rooms. I will admit that I was a little starstruck at first but I had a blast doing it and it was wonderful experience for my portfolio!
Four years ago I put my blossoming interior design career on hold when my son was 5 months old. It was becoming a challenge to tote my baby around from showroom to new construction site. I would show up at a job with tape measure and fabric books on one arm and a sometimes fussy babe on the other arm. Not very professional I know but my clients never seemed to mind.
Since then I have been freelancing from home and staying home with my 3 kids ages 4, 2 and 7 months. I have 2 boys and a baby girl! I have a wonderfully supportive husband that I am crazy about. We are complete opposites by the way! You probably already guessed that. I stay up all night working out my creative insomnia and he is very responsible. He reads the Wall Street Journal and then goes to bed.
I have a massive amount of curly blond hair that I am forever trying new ways to tame. We have a black lab named Sanibel that is a lover and totally crazy all at the same time. I LOVE music. I sing all of the time and I recently learned how to play the violin so that my 4 year old could start taking Suzuki violin lessons. Even though Christmas has come and gone I have been listening to and loving Justin Beiber's new Christmas album "Under the Mistletoe." My favorite snacks are cheese and chocolate. I love beautiful things. I love helping clients choose paint colors and I love designing and drawing fabric window treatments. I love staging cozy rooms because it is like telling a story. Making clients happy gives me an adrenaline rush!
Thank you for taking the time to browse my shop offerings. Having an Etsy shop does wonders for my "gold star" personality and I enjoy customer feedback!!! It's just the fuel that this stay-at-home mom needs.
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