I love gifts! Or as I like to call them, prizes! And as many of my friends know, it’s more about ME when giving the gift than the actual recipient! I ask myself one question, ‘What would I want right now if it was my birthday/xmas/etc.?’ And then I buy/make that thing I just thought of. I don’t care if you don’t like JCrew! You’re getting that sparkle glitter box clutch and you’re going to like it! Don’t wear Mac’s ‘Lady Danger’ lipstick? Too bad! It’s yours!
This year I wanted to do something different that select from ‘Jenna’s Picks’.
I’ve always been obsessed with graphic design and layout. If I wasn’t an apparel designer, I would be a hair stylist. And if I wasn’t a hair stylist I would be the customs agent that checks people into the country and asks them ‘What’s your business in my country?’ (because I don’t have a ‘nosy nature’, I have an ‘investigative nature’, and quite frankly, I think I would make a lot friends.) I love having a lot of friends! And if I wasn’t the customs agent that checks people into the country and asks them ‘What’s your business in my country?’, I would be a graphic designer!
I love type, I love layout and I love lines! So it’s only natural that I love maps! I like thinking about when cities & towns were first established, how they evolved and the logic in creating paths of transportation. But it ends there. I can’t follow a paper map to save my life. Those people that can walk outside and know what direction they are facing blow. my. mind.
Anyway, I’ve been wanting to do a map project for awhile and luckily for my friends, I got my chance when their birthdays started rolling around this fall! Everyone is getting a framed map of the town they grew up in. Everybody. Once I get enough complete, they will fill a wall in my living room! See how that works out?! Don’t you wish you were one of my friends?!
I know.
