I’ve been thinking a lot lately about goals for 2017.
With how busy everything got at the end of 2015 going into 2016 last year, I lost track of coming up with my usual yearly theme.
This year, I’m bound and determined to reinstate the tradition, and I think I might be onto something:
“Highlighter.”
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It's no secret: I took a short hiatus from posting on my blog this summer. I’ve done a little blogging this fall, but have kept the pace a little slower. For an exciting reason: I’ve been busy writing and blogging for other websites instead.
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Today is my 1-year wedding anniversary, so I'm taking a moment to reflect on 1 year of marriage.
People say that marriage is work. I disagree.
Or at least I disagree with that word choice. I think that a marriage takes effort, but effort is different from work in my opinion. Mainly because the kind of effort a marriage takes is the fun kind and, simply put, doesn't feel like work at all.
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Photo by Tessa Neustadt for Blackband Design
This week, I published my first article on the modern interiors digital magazine MyDomaine. It was a super fun process to sit down with Blackband Design for a Q&A about a before-and-after home tour that transformed a beachside house adorned in dark wood paneling into a bright, breezy, coastal-chic space.
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Awhile back, probably a year ago at this point, someone asked me if we were going to have a photo booth at our wedding. My response was, “No, because life is a photo booth.” I said that because I couldn’t think of another way to express that I had a firm feeling that I wanted the photos from our wedding reception to capture real moments, actions, and emotions. I wanted to document that weekend in our lives as if it were one giant photo booth.
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Last summer, when I decided I was going to embark on a new career journey, one of my goals was to build a life I wouldn’t need a vacation from.
Prior to that point, so much of how hard I was working seemed to build towards moments of freedom when I would take time off from work with Marc, friends, or family. I’d dream of getting away from it all, being able to truly separate and unwind.
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About a month ago, I started writing a post about how I could not believe it was already fall. I felt like I blinked and it was already the end of September.
I brainstormed all the things I was inspired to do as the seasons changed... how I was switching from iced coffee to hot coffee, and perhaps more importantly, from white wine to red wine. I dreamt up styling artistic photos of the cozy-looking faux fur throw on my bed and posting some progress shots of cleaning out my closet in preparation for cooler weather. Maybe I'd post a roundup of my favorite men's trends for fall, or of the TV show premieres I was most excited to watch - mostly under the Shonda Rhimes umbrella (#TGIT).
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I think I can officially call myself a freelancer.
A few weeks ago, someone addressed me as a designer for an event that I helped to plan. Later that week, a different person called me a freelancer when I took on my first interior decorating job. And still that same week, I accepted a different part-time position in digital media.
Four months after starting on a journey of career exploration, I was seeing momentum in new creative professional endeavors.
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Every year, for the past six years, I've had a theme. It's what I do in lieu of a New Years resolution.
I started this tradition in 2010, my first theme being "Yes." Aside from a brief digression in 2011 when I decided to make my theme "Hot & Dangerous" (homage to a Ke$ha lyric that amused me at the time), I've enjoyed layering themes on each year to make myself a more dynamic and open person to be around, someone who sets and achieves bigger goals.
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My cappuccino at Caffe Sant'Eustachio in Rome.
I’m not a coffee drinker. I’ve never liked the taste. And unlike the way I approached beer and wine in college, I never bothered to acquire a taste for coffee. Consequently, I’ve always sought rebellion in the form of tea. Badass, I know.
Until last week, when I started drinking coffee at age 31.
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Photo by Jonathan Steinitz
I had a really rewarding high-five the other night. It was a little out of character, as I’m typically not a sober high-fiver, and in this case I was pretty sober.
I was at dinner with my friends Leanne and Jillian, and we had been discussing career exploration (mine specifically).
I left my job in May 2015 in search of a new challenge after almost ten years working in corporate retail. As I’ve been exploring what’s next, I decided to start a blog about style, décor, and experiences as a way of building a creative portfolio of my own work and my inspiration.
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