If I’m perfectly honest, motherhood really threw my life for a wildly unexpected loop. My career. My passions. My hobbies. My friends. Everything I thought I knew about who I was in the world and what it was that I was creating and bringing to the table – especially work-wise – suddenly changed. My son is now 16 months old and we’re …
Where the Designing Started
There is one very clear memory from my childhood that always proves to remind me that I’m on the right path: I was a nerd for a desktop publishing software as a kid. Very specifically – the Disney 101 Dalmatians Print Studio from the HP Home Project Kit circa 1997. (Don’t even ask how much time I had to spend hunting …
Behind the Design: Designer Walk-through of the New Krash Logo + Brand Kit
The launch of the Krash Design logo and brand kit recently has been firing up so many great conversations. As some businesses have slowed in the pandemic, many of my clients and entrepreneur friends are discovering that they’re facing an excellent opportunity to revisit their brand and online presence. The process for a brand refresh is shockingly simple when you …
New Logo + Brand Kit for Krash Design
We’ve been having an absolute blast working on some new branding for Krash Design lately. The Krash ladies and I have been talking about this for years. Thanks to the crazy quarantine – the goals of their business shifted quickly and the reasons to get this done now were inarguable. Kristin and Ashley (Get it? Krash? So cool!) have a …
One Year Later
To be completely honest, I’ve struggled to write this post for quite awhile. Each time I would start, the words would quickly spiral into a seemingly pitiful story about life before and life after. But, there is nothing pitiful about life after. To get the tone right, I had to go looking for my “why” again. Trainers, business coaches, dieticians …
Our cliffside ceremony at Cathedral Rock
Our aspirations to have an intimate destination elopement had dwindled to all but non-existent until we learned a baby would soon be joining us. Suddenly, we had a perfect excuse to move things along a little faster and I ecstatically returned to our most original of wedding day wants: intimate, adventurous and meaningful. We quickly and quietly booked my dream …
We planned an unplannable wedding – and it was perfect (for us)
When Aaron proposed in Chile, I was completely caught off guard. Our discussions of marriage had previously spiraled into each of our independent views on what is and isn’t the purpose of marriage. Ultimately, we always landed on the fact that we loved each other and the official-ness of it didn’t much matter. Truth: at some point, I was far …
Reasons I’m crying
With the little one on the way, my life has hilariously turned into a constantly growing list of the reasons I’m crying. This week: People don’t truly understand press bias Wednesday morning, Aaron decided to repost a ridiculous scholarly opinion piece on Facebook – to which I replied with a link to a fact checking/media bias website. This instigated an …
All the big (secret) news
Our lives have changed in some dramatically huge ways in the last few months that I – completely legit – cannot even, legally, tell you. To emphasize the weight of this – Aaron is a Special Forces Veteran. On a scale of everyday news to top secret mission, I would actually have to have him kill you if I told you. …
Finding the ring and finding a story
As we prep for a thousand and one big things to happen in our lives over the next three months, I keep finding myself narrating the many, many stories in my mind. Today, it’s the story of the ring. My engagement ring was part of someone else’s story before it was mine. When Aaron proposed at the top of a …