Graphic design hasn’t always been my thing, it’s not something that was in my blood that I just fell into, I did not have natural drawing abilities (unlike my talented daughter!) but I studied hard, practiced harder and after making some disastrous flops, I’m proud of where I’m now at!

I spent my teenage years learning HTML and making websites (Geocities anyone?!), while studying sport science and multimedia. My early 20’s were spent studying medicine and naturopathy and then working as a website coder, tech support, administration and – can you imagine it – a store manager for a pizza shop. 

Then I fell in love, got addicted to weddings and became a parent and spent my 30’s working 60 hour weeks creating wedding florals for events big and small while surviving night feeds and school runs. Sounds exhausting right?

I knew I needed a change but I just loved what I did and couldn’t see past it. Having my hands tied when Covid-19 put my wedding business in hiatus forced me to change direction. I’m creative and good with computers so a Communication Design degree sounded like a good fit. University as an adult with a family and full time work was a carefully crafted juggling act, add Covid restrictions and a full semester on Zoom and I’ve finally come out with a degree with new hopes and dreams. Check out my Study Journey in the blog if you want to see some of the madness!