Melissa, Oh!

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  • Chris’ apartment photos

    Ready to see progress so far? OK, here goes: Chris’ TV storage before:   Chris’ TV storage after:   Chris’ bookshelf before (living room view):   Chris’ bookshelf after (living room view):   Chris’ bookshelf before (bedroom view):   Chris’ bookshelf after (bedroom view):   Bedroom showing new window coverings (before were just blinds):  …

  • Chris’ apartment update

    Shopping is so much fun when you’re spending someone else’s money. It’s even more fun when the someone else has total trust in your taste and ability to coordinate pieces and find the right prices. I’ve been in Athens, Ga., this week helping Chris decorate his apartment. As you’ll see from my previous post, we got…

  • Busted for tapping on a boy’s window

    A memory It is 1993, the day before Christmas Eve, and I have told my parents I’m staying at Carmen’s house. She’s told her parents she’s staying at my house. A risky move, but one that has worked a few times. We are out playing all night long, driving around, hanging out with people at…

  • One of my first design projects

    Me in my room at 15, being photographed by The Charlotte Observer for an article about the teen panel I was a member of. I was very proud of my wall! Susan jokes that I was able to turn it into a career …

  • “I designed my own …”

    As a graphic designer who does custom commissioned work, my job is to listen to my clients and create designs based on their wants and needs. I am not a puppet reproducing the work exactly as they request it; I am adding my own style to each piece and making certain that the pieces are…

  • 10 years ago | 10 years later

    Written on August 29, 1994: In ten years I would like to be out of college and married. [10-year-later update: I was 4 years out of college, and I was married exactly 10 years and 6 days after this was written] I want to be a journalist at a large newspaper, perhaps writing editorials. [10-year-later…

  • Seeing yourself in dreams

    I saw myself in a dream last night. Susan had moved in with us for a bit and was staying in one of our guest rooms, which of course looks nothing like the guest rooms in our home. This one had cobalt walls and white wainscoting and black furniture. Most importantly, it had a full-length…

  • Old diaries, new perspective

    I decided very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Elementary school, in fact. I always wanted to be a novelist (and this year, I will be!) but around fifth grade, I decided that might be too difficult to break into the industry and be a bestseller, so instead I would “just” be…

  • Injury breaks my stride

    Anyone who has talked to me on a regular basis since April is probably so sick of hearing about this, but for those of you who don’t know: I hurt my hip in the spring. It was a couple of weeks after the 10K Charleston Bridge Run, and I ran a tiny little 3 mile run…

  • I was Privileged …

    Designing a blog header The great thing about working with my friend Chris is that we are on the same wavelength and have the same goals when it comes to design: Simple, readable, modern. I should state we don’t officially work together. We have separate companies and live in separate cities. But we talk via Instant Messaging…