What's it all about?

I have been spending my last week or so learning about blogging, and in turn, it has inspired my mind, and fed my spirit with the things that I get really excited about. Design. Fashion. Graphics. Green design & architecture. Interiors & furniture design. Holistic living. The list goes on and on, but through this blog, I have reinvented my passions, given birth to new interests and experienced insight into where I hope to be and what I hope to be doing in the future.

When I left Boston in September, I had been previously accepted back into school to finish my Masters in Interior Design, and I had to pass on my admission for the move to Dubai. I don't regret moving, but I certainly miss the opportunity to be back in school, and more importantly, be able to finish my degree (I completed 2.5 years of my M.Arch at the BAC in Boston, have many I.D. classes from RISD, etc.). So I have begun researching on-line classes again...the school here in Dubai, American University Dubai, has I.D. classes, but it is too expensive and they don't offer loan options, so that is out. So I am back looking at SFIA in San Francisco, a school that I seem to go back to a few times each year, and I am beginning to think it may be a sign...so stay tuned! I am applying for on-line classes starting in Spring, and will be posting my work, etc. which I hope will shed some inspirational light on architecture, design and sustainable & ecological design for all of you creative minds!

Besides that part of life come the New Year, I have also decided to get back to work on my website. I had started a site about 1.5 years ago, and slowly removed myself from it with our wedding, and work and basic life tid-bits that seem to take me off-track sometimes. I already own the domain and am thinking about purchasing another just in case I decide to change the name...as I mentioned in an older post. The website was for me to publish my illustration work that I have been doing for almost 10 years now. I do ink-line drawings, enhanced by water color, guasche as well as use my graphic design experience, editing in Photoshop, etc. I have done a few more since being in Dubai, but my goal is to do 4-5 each week. I will be sure to update you all when the site is up and running come 2008.

Finally, I will also begin using this blog to post more than just our experiences here and our travels...my original intention was to have a blog to keep our families abreast of our life here in Dubai, as none of us enjoy being so far away from each other. However, it is more my character to be inspired by all things around me, be it travel, buildings, flowers, birds, fabric, the lily pond spa girls, Arab men, children, paintings or local handmade crafts...and of course, all things camel! So, as of tonight, I will be giving spirited*s p a c e some much needed SPIRIT!

thanks for enjoying it all so far....d