I don't know that there's been a time in my life where I haven't been actively making things. From friendship bracelets to duck tape wallets, household DIYs to learning a new art medium, I've always been up to some sort of maker-esque shenanigans. It shouldn't be a surprise that I pursued a career as a Product and User Experience Designer so even in my career, I'm still making things.

In 2019, after a high-stress career year, I hit the burnout of all burnouts, quit my job and took an eight week sabbatical...You guessed it, to make things. I made a secret TikTok account called Make Something Today with the goal to make and post something every single day. After a couple of months of rekindled creativity, and a steady increase in commissions, I decided to create a business plan and go for it.

Jokes on me though, because after doing the full-time artist thing for a little while, I realized that I really did enjoy working in software. So here I am today, where most of my week is spent designing financial analytics software and the rest is spent making things to recover from the long week of working in tech.