Howdy Y’all.   I have just finished my new logo and design for my blog.  Next in line: revamping my personal site and finishing an eCommerce site.

Its time for a redesign of my entire brand. I want to completely rejuvenate Andirun Desings. Its funny, but when you are a designer, you work on everyone else’s designs and never your own. Ask me how long it took me to make my own business cards! My current websites are a joke and its time for a change. I had a long conversations with my colleague Joel Lopez and we brainstormed about websites, and then the conversation turned to my own website.  And he really inspired me to take a brand new look at my own site, starting from the beginning.  So I am starting from scratch.  I emailed friends, colleagues, and clients and asked them to give me some words that represent who I am, my skills and the way I work as a designer.  This will help me get an objective point of view of myself.  I could want to be one kind of designer, but in the end it would be false and not who I am.  Take for instance my website when I graduated from college, it was fussy and pretentious… essentially not me.   In the end… I am right back at the beginning again.

The holiday season is a time for many things.  I enjoy reconnecting with my old friends and catching up with my relatives across the pond.  Its also a time for wonderful food and holiday shopping.  This holiday season I am raking in the bucks freelancing with Andirun Designs and also putting in hours at a local Williams-Sonoma.  I enjoy doing both jobs, and I like the vast differences between them.  One is by myself on a computer sitting on my bum all day, with a some side trips to youtube, facebook, and yahoo news.  The other is standing, talking to customers and having a laugh with co-workers.  Its been really crazy busy and I know I have been remiss in updating my blog lately.  I just want to let you in on my schedule lately.  My day starts by waking up, doing some emailing and paperwork, making myself presentable, and then I have the morning debate as to which of my dress shoes won’t leave my feet mangled and bloody by the end of the day.  I grab a bite to eat, pack a little lunch and then go to work at Williams-Sonoma for 8 hours.  By the time I get off, I limp home and sit on my bum for at least a good hour or so.  Then I pal around with my Mom and Dad.  After that I go to my office and work on what needs to be done.  Finally I have some face time over the internet with my boyfriend.  I usually get to sleep around 1 or 2 am… and it all starts back up again at 8 the next morning.  This week is going to be a mad house.  Only two days of not working both jobs before Christmas and one is the day I go down to get my sister in D.C.   We will see how I feel at the end of all this.  I am tired now and I think I might call it an early night.