About

Hi Everyone, thanks for visiting my blog! I hope this is a way that my friends and family can follow me on this new journey I am about to embark on. Let me start with a little background info. I am a graphic designer that graduated from UCF in Orlando with my Bachelors degree in art in 2002. For the past 12 years, I have worked a few different types of design jobs.

I have always loved art. In college, I struggled with the idea of majoring in art because I was drawn more to fine art but wanted to make money and not be the stereotypical starving artist, which led me to choose graphic design. I’ve always been a big art history geek and remember dreaming of someday going to Italy and seeing my favorite pieces from art history class.

In April of 2014 on a bit of a whim, that dream came true and I visited Italy for the first time. It was a brief yet quite intense trip that included 6 cities in 6 days: Milan, Venice, Florence, Pisa, Genoa and Rome. I immediately fell in love with Italy but particularly loved Florence. While in Florence, we visited the Uffizi Gallery. I’ve been fortunate to see some pretty great art in my life but was so blown away by the Uffizi. While drooling in awe of some beautiful masterpieces like Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Fra Angelico’s Annunciation, I noticed some college kids hanging out with notebooks. They were studying and I thought “How cool is that?! Why haven’t I done that?! I wanna do that!” The whole trip was amazing and exhausting at the same time but at the end I looked back and thought about how many boxes I checked off my bucket list in just 6 six days and how much more there was still to see and do.

I came home and went back to my corporate office job of 8 years and couldn’t shake this feeling. I just couldn’t do this anymore. I couldn’t continue what felt like a dead-end path of normalcy and staleness. I wanted to be that college kid in the museum. I started researching grad school programs online, I found a few that interested me, applied and got accepted.

Before I could really do anything, I had to figure out what I was going to do with my house. When I was turning 30, I decided to buy my first house. I thought it was what I wanted and what I was supposed to do because I had a steady job and I was getting older. I don’t regret the decision to buy but I had grown tired of the time and money that maintaining a house was draining on my life. I decided to put it up for sale and had 2 offers in 4 days!

Amazingly, everything has fallen into place for me. Everything in the universe feels like it has perfectly aligned itself to lead me down this path. So many people I talked to have expressed how proud and jealous of me they are. They also asked me if I’m scared or nervous. Truthfully, I am not really scared or nervous. I am super excited but have maintained an odd amount of calm contentness throughout this whole process because it feels so right. I think that most people are excited for me because most people have things in their life that they want to do but are either tied down with other responsibilities like a family, or too scared or make up excuses because they don’t know how to get out of their own way to live the life they truly want. For me, the idea of rotting behind a desk doing the same thing for another 8 years seems way scarier!

If you are still reading this, I hope that you continue to visit my blog and follow my journey. I hope that in some way, I can help and inspire others to follow their dreams and remain true to what you really desire to get out of your life. Life is short. Tomorrow is not promised. Get out of your own way and stop wasting valuable time. If you are not living a good and happy life, it will pass you by and so will opportunities like this. This can be one of the hardest lessons in life, yet one of the most important ones. Live your life to the fullest and join me as I live mine. 🙂