From the Beginning
The Idea
While in school for art and design, I coined the phrase Designing Life to use as my business name for interior design projects. To me, it represented my desire to not just design a room, but to help clients purposefully design their lives starting with their homes.
To Help, Not to Hurt
After school, I married my college sweetheart and moved to Virginia. There I continued in interior design with a local firm and I began to set up the foundations for Designing Life. One of the biggest things that I learned was through my design job in Williamsburg, Virginia. I learned that most design businesses feed on women who are hurting and who desperately need to feel like they have it all together. Women came in wanting to have their home decorated better than their neighbors. The firm I worked for counted on it.
I decided then that Designing Life would not prey on women with needy hearts. Designing Life would be available to women who wanted their home to reflect their lives and have their home build them up instead of being a drain on their time and their resources. My husband’s mother was a teacher and my mother is a nurse, so I wanted Designing Life to have products and services that were available to wonderful women like our mothers. Why should teachers and nurses not have access to design resources? So Designing Life would be different.
Birthing . . . a baby and a business
My husband and I moved to Mississippi and life changed dramatically. We were expecting a baby! I continued working in decor and design those months before my son was born, but when he came into my life I knew I wanted to stay home to be his full time mommy. However, I still wanted to do design since design was a part of my life.
My goal is to develop home and life planning resources to help my clients to manage their homes and lives well on a daily basis. I create printable resources to aid families and individual persons to plan their days, their cleaning, and their children’s schedules.
Current News
Now, 17 years later, I have a senior in high school, and am still creating useful printable products for women who want to design their lives. I am reopening my shop after a long hiatus of focusing in on what is important, my family. Instead of having a split focus, I want to use my shop as a conduit for creativity, while maintaining full focus on my last year homeschooling. In a society who celebrates multitasking, I've some to realize being focused on one thing at a time is much richer of a goal.
