No matter whether I’m at work or at home, the challenge is to always see how much I can make, build and create myself.

At home, this means beautiful old furniture gets a second shot at life because I’m not afraid to try that upholstery project myself. It means vintage beds painted bright colours for my girls. It means making our costumes not buying them. It also means there’s a four foot by six foot oil painting, a reproduction of a Tamara de Lempicka favourite, hanging in the dining room that took me four year to complete. (But it is there!)

At work, along with my teammates, it means we can try new things for less budget. It means building new products, new customer journeys, new designs and content…and when we get the data, the feedback, the responses – we’re all set to make updates. No worries, no fear, just doing.

I’ve tried to stop making things myself. Now that I’m not a kid anymore, I can afford a new sofa, but where’s the fun in that? (New turquoise linen for the mid-century couch downstairs just arrived…can’t wait to start pulling staples…) And as a manager, I’ve learned to delegate as required, but I still love troubleshooting the CSS and ensuring the background image displays *just right*…

I’ve been this way for as long as I can remember. And so I thought I’d make a web page about it…