sewing, fashion design, fabric, sewing machines; graphic design, InDesign, PhotoShop, page layout, photo editing; belly dancing, costumes; cats; custody rights, tips on getting custody; writing, editing, proofreading, typing, ghostwriting
Business Description: I am a freelance Renaissance Woman.
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sewing, fashion design, fabric, sewing machines; graphic design, InDesign, PhotoShop, page layout, photo editing; belly dancing, costumes; cats; custody rights, tips on getting custody; writing, editing, proofreading, typing, ghostwriting
Business Description: I am a freelance Renaissance Woman.
Degrees: BA in journalism/ professional writing from OU, where I graduated cum laude. Minor in psychology. I studied fiction writing and AP style, mainly.
My Expertise: Aside from my specialties: sewing, fashion design, fabric, sewing machines; graphic design, InDesign, PhotoShop, page layout, photo editing; belly dancing, costumes; cats; custody rights, tips on getting custody; writing, editing, proofreading, typing, ghostwriting ...I also am a master researcher. This is how I came by the knowledge of custody rights, despite not having any nor wanting any kids of my own. I can give an outline of the difference in temperaments among a gelding, a mare, and a stallion off the top of my head, and could elaborate on it with all the appearance of an expert, given a couple hours and access to the Internet. I can chat about women's professional walking (pedestriennes) in the 1870s, when Adah Anderson wowed Brooklyn by successfully walking a quarter mile every quarter hour for one month, never getting more than 10 minutes sleep at a stretch the entire time.
Experience: I have done the graphic design for a number of periodicals, including a 28- to 32-page glossy trade magazine for a team penning organization. I ran an independent student newspaper in college, as the head editor, the graphic designer, one of the main writers (including a series called A Modest Proposal under a male pseudonym; not even friends suspected me unless I told them), and the proofreader.
I got started in graphic design in junior high, when I worked on the yearbook under a teacher so exacting that we won the All-Oklahoman award for the yearbook and the newspaper every single year, and we won national awards against highschools that actually had ads and real funding. I won several individual awards, as well.
I have been freelance sewing for customers for several years. I've worked as an assistant manager for Hancock fabrics for a couple years, then worked for the district and traveled to all the stores in the metroplex. There I learned about sewing styles, interests, and fabrics I wouldn't have pursued on my own. I worked at Mr. Sewing Machine for a while, and was starting to learn to repair machines when I quit to work at a salon.
I have owned cats since childhood, and they have at times been some of my closest friends.
I have been making up stories since age 5 at least--that is the earliest specific memory I can pin down. I drew stories before I learned to write them, and I learned to read and write before kindergarten. I read The Elements of Style by EB White for fun in 7th grade. I tested out of college level English with a 5/5 on the AP test. I also tested out of Chemistry and Calculus, starting my first year of college with 13 credit hours.
I won awards on a state level for science projects all three years of high school, and was the president of science club for two of them. During this time, I gained in-depth knowledge of Ivermectin vs. Doramectin as cattle worming products (the half-life of the product is longer than that of the cow's digestive tract, and is still active when it leaves the cow--it can then get into the groundwater and affect the environment); acupuncture, the keng and ko cycles, the EMI (electro-meridian imaging machine); and I worked with one of the top scientists in the field using an electrogastrogram to compare digestibility of foods that taste good against foods that don't taste good but are otherwise similar in makeup.
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