Finding Jayne

So, I have totally put off and procrastinated on writing this post all day. I think it's mainly just because I still haven't totally "found Jayne"...It is still totally an "in the works" process and every day that I post I find a little bit more. Anyways, this is essentially where I started on my project:



Since I had been doing mainly photography for the last three years and I wasn't passionate about my name and I wasn't thrilled with weddings and I just didn't know who I was as a person even I had to lay things out for myself visually. I dug out all of my paper work, things that I had printed from Pinterest, I collected some descriptive words from friends and family, I researched girls I follow and admire on Instagram and their blogs and blogs that they are connected with. I had to find a direction somehow.

I decided to make it all into a "smash book" of sorts. I had gotten this great sketch book from TJ Max for $5 and had been saving it for something special. This became my special project. I collected everything that I could think of. I grabbed my favorite writing utincels, my washi tape, my mini alpha-stamp set and an ink pad and my scissors and sat down and started smashing...




After getting myself laid out on paper (see above photo) I had some words to start with. As I may have eluded to in past posts, names are a big thing for me and my little family. The meaning of names carries through with you for the rest of your life and I just really wanted something meaningful and something that I was going to be enthusiastic about. Something that described me but fit what I was doing. I became SUPER excited when I stumbled onto developing what's in the next few photos:







"The Design Chicken". I was so excited. I LOVED my illustration, I LOVED figuring out how to put it into Illustrator and then painting him in Photoshop. I thought it was perfect. And then my husband got home...As soon as he walked through the door I KNEW that I needed to find a new name. If I couldn't even say it out loud to my BFF, I was NEVER going to be able to announce to the world that I was to be known as "the design chicken." Now that I say it again all I can think is BLECH. I still love my illustration and will use him for other pieces but I HAD to find a name that was more me, that I could admit to being...

I sat back down at my smash book and continued to pull out words to flow together. One thing I knew that was me was my middle name, it's something that I love the spelling of, something that I have always thought was beautiful. I love signing my middle name with the rest of it for my signature, I love telling people what it is. It is a heritage from my family and I have always been very proud of it. I looked again at the words that my 5 companions had used to describe me and the one that hit across the board was creative in some form or another and it just seemed to flow together...





I loved how it stuck, it just seemed to fit right. It was a good descriptive name of what I do but it didn't hold me back to doing just design, with the creative part I feel the freedom to share tutorials for things other than design with you when I get further along.

I guess that's how I came up with the name. I am still trying to find my niche, where I fit among all of the other designers but I am comfortable with what I am becoming and what the Lord has me doing right now. It's definitely a journey with an end not apparent or seemingly close but one that I am willing to travel patiently and turn each page of the book of Jayne every day.

Thanks for tagging along on my journey, join me tomorrow when I share about how I have used Pinterest to develop myself...
<3 Kayla

If you have a hobby or business that you have named, how did you come up with your name and how do you feel it has effected who you are as a (insert your description here) and your hobby or business?