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The Architect
Starting with crayons at a very early age, the Architect has always had a need to express her creativity. Her career started in the graphic arts industry and she became a journeyman sign painter at the age of 24. This was before computers and digital printing, so everything was done freehand with brushes. Screen printing, gold leaf, scaffolding for wall signs; she's done it all.
After getting a certificate in Interior Design, the Architect worked briefly in custom hardware supply, but soon came back to the sign industry. I'll bet you didn't know sign companies need contractor's licenses, but they do, and when she started her own sign company she got one of those too.
When she wasn't designing signs or remodeling houses, she was sailing or flying helicopters or crafting or traveling to Europe or taking pictures or working in her garden.
Then there were the four years spent cruising "Thistle" down the California Coast, through the Panama Canal, and up the US East Coast to Maine. The Architect was the route planner, navigator, customs and immigration liaison, interpreter, and blogger. And of course, she hauled diesel, groceries and garbage; fixed, maintained, and repaired things; stood overnight watches; called about a hundred bridge tenders(!); and hauled up the anchor and the dinghy hundreds of times.
Lover of books, maps, art, tea, and comfy upholstered chairs, the Architect is in seventh heaven on this latest project.
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