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the blog
This blog is a creative outlet for this aspiring interior designer trapped inside of a business student's body. I've always been a self-motivated, do-it-yourselfer and don't like to rely on others to do jobs that I know I can learn to do myself. That's why I am in business school right now. I want to learn how to successfully run my own interior design firm some day so that I will be the force behind all of my designs, through and through.
I need this blog and wanted this blog so that I had a place to catalog the artistic thoughts that race through my mind every day. I am inspired by so many things that surround me, those that I come across on the web, and that others introduce to me. I hope that the things that are inspiring to me are also inspiring to others, and that at some point, this blog becomes a point of reference for other designistas like me!
Oh....and "lexicon," if you were wondering, is not just a play on words associated with my name. Lexicon is another word for "thesaurus," which we know is basically a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms. It is a perfect word to use for a catalog of different ways to do the same things.
the blogger
Throughout my younger years, okay just a few years ago (I'm still young!), I had wanted to become a doctor. After extensive shadowing and experience in medical atmospheres, I thought I knew exactly what I wanted to become: a pediatrician. I love kids and I loved the fact that I could watch and help them grow in to wonderful people.
I came to Indiana University to pursue that path almost 3 years ago. At the same time, I was setting out on my journey as a business student too. I was completely overwhelmed by the difficult path I had chosen and as somewhat of a perfectionist, I couldn't settle for the mediocre performance I was yielding while I was trying to balance many difficult courses.
I decided to narrow my path. I decided that someday, I would be a mom. And that day will be the start of the best days of my life. I will have my own wonderful little people to create. I also wanted to be available to them as they grew up, and that would be extremely difficult in the medical field with long hours most of the time. So at that point, business it was.
At the beginning of my second year of business school, I had fallen into a bit of a rut. Business alone would never be satisfying enough or me. Even though I had set out to utilize my creativity by choosing to major in Marketing and envisioning a career in advertising for myself, something was still missing. I took a deep look within myself and what I was truly passionate about, because as I have come to know myself, I have found that I do very well when I do things that I am passionate about. It kind of goes along with this quote:
"If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders."
Other than thoughts about the typical necessities of life and work, school, family, and friends, I never stop thinking about design. I assess every room I enter, every object I touch, and think to myself, "Why did they make it this way?" I am fascinated by what design DOES for us. Design is both beautiful and memorable, but I truly believe that design changes the way we go about our every day lives. This doesn't just relate to how we use the objects that have been designed for us, but it relates to how these designs make us feel. Next time you set foot in a new place, if you don't do this automatically, think about how you feel. That is what I love about design.
It all comes down to something really simple for me. "Do what you love, love what you do."
