The photo above is how life looked on Wednesday night. A total mess. But promising! The next day was my senior showcase for interior design school… and I was going out of my mind finishing projects early and preparing my display for the show. I didn't get many good photos of the show, regrettably… But here is a bit of what the show looked like…

It's a bit difficult to show you an accurate picture of my display… because a camera lens just does't capture the lighting of my backlit floor plans the same way a human eye would. I built the display with two holes where I installed lights that would shine through floor plans which were printed onto vellum. I was quite pleased with how it looked, but these pictures don't show an accurate portrayal.

Most students place their work on premade displays provided from the University. But our graduating class was so large that there wasn't enough display for everyone. Myself and three other students decided we wanted to build our own displays, and I was very pleased with how excited the Junior class was about the idea of building their own displays next year. (Some of the juniors are pictured below.)

After all is said and done, I must say that I truly appreciate the support and help of my family (especially my dad!), professors, and classmates. I'm going to miss everyone when school is done in two weeks. Two weeks?!

Six more days until my senior showcase! But still four more weeks until the end of the semester. This is quite a conundrum, you see, because there are three projects that I'm working on right now that I want to display. What does this mean? Why, this means I need (okay, maybe more like want) to finish drawings for at least two of these projects for my showcase display, I must finish said showcase display, and I must also completely my portfolio (containing all completed projects up to this point in my student and professional career). By Thursday at 5:30pm.

Sometimes I find myself sitting down at the table, working on my projects, suddenly unable to breath. And then, I realize- hey, I've been holding my breath! And then it happens again a moment later. I can't stop doing it. Hopefully after next week I will begin breathing again, and find myself leaps and bounds ahead of schedule in completing my projects for this, my senior year of interior design school.

This semester I have been designing a retail space (I decided to design a vintage boutique, of course!), and this is the beginning of my digital rendering of the dressing room/cash desk area. Everything you see what hand drawn, scanned, and then illustrated in Adobe Photoshop. I will show you more drawings as I complete them! I'm pretty excited about this project in particular. Sigh. Okay, now I'm going to go back back to work! Huzzah!

My life right now looks a lot like this. Most of the time. That is, when I'm not in front of the computer working on autocad or interning at Joann (Joann Fabric and Craft's headquarters here in NE Ohio) trying to come up with ingenius fixture designs. 

You see, it isn't enough that I have a full course load and am trying to complete as much as I can three weeks ahead of graduation in order to include my work in our senior portfolio exhibit. (P.S. Life right now also includes lots of long winded sentences.) No, that's not enough. I just had to design and build my own display to exhibit said work. Pinning them up on a board with everyone else's work just isn't enough. Sigh. Why do I get myself into these messes?!

P.S. Thanks Dad for all of your work work in helping me these last two weeks! I couldn't have done it without you. And thanks, Phil, for doing the laundry. Otherwise I would have naught but sawdust filled socks and tights to cover my feet.