At some point during my young adult experience I chose to ignore my lust for design and pursue a degree in business and let me tell you, those four years were the most boring years of my life but once I graduated and got a taste for a real career (and real money hello) I figured I’d just suck it up and go with it. Well here’s the thing - I’ve never been good at lying to myself (or anyone for that matter) and eventually the mind catches up to the body and in my experience that meant that the design passion found its way out.

If you’d rather listen to this story you can listen to this podcast episode of the True to You Podcast with Ruby Marsh where she interviews me about starting my blog over 12 years ago and the path from that point to owning two design businesses.

12 years ago my husband and I found out that we needed IVF to have any chance of conceiving. I was in a state of shock with no one in my real life to talk to - no one had been through this that we knew - so I launched a blog called Calmly Chaotic. I shared about infertility, I shared about renovations we were doing in our house, I shared my favourite anthropologie finds and eventually we had found out that our first round of IVF worked and we were expecting twins. I decided to leave my role as a senior IT recruiter - the title I’d held for the first eight years of my career and instead soak up some twin baby time while continuing to blog as much as possible.