Meet Marissa
Marissa spends most of her time with a mouse in her right hand, using
her left hand to give her 5 year old a marker to draw with, while
simultaneously yelling at her 2 year old to “Get down!” When she’s not
home doing that she is at work, crafting books for all to read (and
make things!) as Managing Designer for the North Light Craft books
imprint at F+W Publications. When she isn’t staring longingly into a
screen with an Apple in the top left corner, she likes to look at the
back of a camera and take pictures. Someday, she hopes to find a way to
do both (design and take pictures) for her own little set of clients.
In the wee hours of the night, when all is quiet, Marissa writes a blog and creates art for her etsy shop.
Five Questions For Marissa~
1. What was the last thing you wished for?
A
Canon Digital Rebel so I wouldn’t have to curse at my camera every time
I used it, and make the people around me when I’m taking a picture not
think I’m possessed. (A typical trip out with my current camera sounds
like this: Work, damn you! Come on ... focus. That’s it, you can do it.
Shoot, yep, you guessed it, everything’s blurry - AGAIN. You blasted
blasted camera!)
2. Which 80's heart-throb was in posters on your wall?
Do
I have to really admit this? I think I had every Teen Beat or Tiger
Beat was it?, that had pull out posters for Chad Allen (who I think is
actually gay) and Kirk Cameron. I was REALLY in love with Kirk Cameron. He came
to our church in Tennessee a few years ago when he was doing those Left
Behind movies and that weekend before my sister in law had found my
pre-teen scrapbook with Mike Seaver plastered all over it. She wanted
to know if I wanted her to send them so he sign them. Uh, no.
3. What is your favorite cereal?
Not
on Weight Watchers – I’d eat an entire box of the Reese’s Peanut Butter
Puffs in one sitting. But since I haven’t been able to eat a bowl of
cereal without guilt of a sugar-induced coma since having gestational
diabetes with Brennan, and with the whole weight watchers thing – I opt
for a good bowl of low-fat granola w/Kefir (strawberry).
4. What trend are you totally sick of and hope you never have to see again?
Everyone
jumping on someone else’s bandwagon, when it wasn’t their bandwagon to
start with. I see rip offs/knock offs everywhere— in publishing, in
art, in scrapbooking—everywhere. Granted, a design school professor
once told me that there is never an original idea, but I don’t think
what I see is what he meant. I wish people would have the decency to be
crafty enough to take someone’s idea and make it better, not copy it
and act like it was theirs. What really irks me is when people copy
things, it is clearly not as good as the original, and make more money
or have more success than those who had the original idea.
5. What were the best gifts you've ever given and received?
Given
– anything to my kids and watching their face light up when they get
it. It can be as simple as a seashell from my trip to California, or as
elaborate as the Pollyworld that Santa brought. Anything that brings
them delight gives me joy.
Received – Barbara’s Ultimate Chocolate Obsession cake. Best EVER. And that is saying a
lot, since the best chocolate cake before that is from Portillo’s in
Chicago. I thought that nothing could ever beat Portillo’s chocolate
cake. But I was proved wrong by my seesters.
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