Pretty New

I've known since I was a little girl that I would grow up to make pretty things. It took me a while to find out what those pretty things might be. And I tried a lot. I went through majors in college like I had gone through sports as a child - rapidly and with increasing conviction. I hopped and skipped from journalism to interior design to exercise physiology to psychology and finally rested on fashion design.

Design is my passion and fingers crossed it will one day be my career. For now I live as a starving artist and pay the bills with my job as a Special Education Teaching Assistant. Thankfully, my job affords me the time to pursue my creative interests. I have an accessories line called Prude and Prudence which is a collaboration between my and my big sister Anna. We currently sell through Etsy and will hopefully be ramping production up again shortly. I've also got my own Etsy shop Kaunis where I sell handbags. I'm also currently working on expanding that line to include some of my graphic art with cards and prints. Lastly, I am working on starting a Creative Parties by Denise, where I go to birthday parties, baby showers, bachelorette parties or girls nights and teach fun creative projects.

So now I expand my horizons just a little more and have this blog that I can learn to make pretty.