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Greetings!

     I am, no doubt, the last one to introduce myself to the blogging world assigned here in EDSN 103. I am Lori. I've given my blog name this designation simply because an individual's creativity starts outside the basic lines where we all started. Staying inside the lines was great when we're learning to color in kindergarden. But, now we have that licked, and well behind us, let's think outside the lines and come up with something really awesome. 

    I am very excited to be a part of my Ivy Tech’s Environmental Design Crew!  I must say, it’s been a challenging start, but I am making an honest-to-goodness attempt at being an awesome Environmental Design student. I am looking to yet identify my own creative style. I know what I like when I see it, just don’t recognize why I like it. I would describe myself  in word pictures as a musician who can naturally play by ear, but now must learn how to read the music in order to get graded on it. Yikes. Not to mention this is super difficult. If you’ve ever been here, you know what this feels like. I do plan to be useful to others real soon, in helping them in their quest for harmony in the field of design. For now, I am a freight engine…slow getting going, but hard to stop when I catch on to this college thing!!

   My current struggles, in my quest involves time management. I currently stay with my 92yr old grandmother at night, and balance the rest of my daily hours divided equally in the areas of (1) a full college curriculum of twelve credits  (2) my spiritual goals and 3) my newly purchased 1300 sq ft house (totally gutted)remodel project.  Since I have a building permit on my front window, I cannot live in my house anyway, until my certificate of occupancy is awarded, so I guess the whole Grandma thing has worked out perfectly.

     I recently moved back from Indianapolis, to my home town of Goshen, IN. I had lived in Indy for 20 years as executive assistant to the owner of our design build firm. On the commercial end of the business, I have been drawn to design via osmosis. But on a personal level, I guess I can only identify my earliest talent(s) playing with Barbies. Actually, I never  played with Barbies, I just always designed their living spaces and then let the other kids play. They had wall ti wall carpet (from human carpet samples) and my favorite wall coverings were supplied from record album covers. Carol King’s “Tapestry” album was perfect! But even though Donna Summer’s “Bad Girl” album had an awesome blue color pallet, it was not exactly the most appropriate theme for a modest Barbie’s decor choice. So, now that I think back on all of this, It is very evident to me, that even from the age of seven, this whole design process has been intriguing without me even realizing it.

     I'm impressed by the harmony that can be created in residential interior design, and I’d like to never stop discovering (from this course and in life) why I like the styles, that I do.

 So, GAME ON! I’m totally up for creating stuff. 

     
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