About
ABOUT
Born in Atlanta in 1983, I first worked in the fashion industry in New York, where I lived for 10 years after graduating from Georgetown University. During that time, it became clear that interior design and invention within the scope of the built environment were a truer fit for me. Ultimately that took me to Italy for an interior design degree and on to London where I withstood several years of bedbound chronic illness. In 2022, healthy and ready to start over, I relocated with my husband and dog to Lisbon, Portugal. We have slogged through the astonishing bureaucratic red tape to finally find a property I can mold to my strongest vision, in hopes of producing a professional benchmark to further my work here in Europe.
Of note:
I’ve got a Masters of Interior Design from a little school in Florence, Italy where I trafficked high-quality gelato to my apartment by the kilo container. And I only gained 5 pounds.
I hold a distinctly vague humanities degree in Literature.
I speak 3 languages well, 2 more passably so, and am struggling with Polish. But it’s Polish. (So’s my husband.)
I’ve lived in 5 countries and have stood on 5 out of 7 continents. Plans for the other 2 await me. ("Have suitcase. Will travel." is a good motto.)
I learned to scuba dive in Cambodia while assisting seahorse research and conservation. I’m not even a marine biologist.
I married a man (December 2015) who predicted said outcome within 45 minutes of meeting me. Once I decided he wasn’t a threatening lunatic, that was nice.
I'm an American in Lisbon. I'm counting on this giving me certain Insights into Something.
I’ve got a long-winded chronic-illness story that kept me almost entirely housebound from 2016. My May, 2020 update: I’m now fine, but now the rest of the world is definitely not…
2025: I’m finally going to get the chance to actually build my own home here in Lisbon, so stay tuned. I will be here to document the whole rollicking process.
