Origin of Species

I'm always fascinated how people come up with their screenname or blog titles, so here is the origins of mine.

Let's start with my screenname, Sweetfrogy. Back in the stone age, in 1996, I was a Senior in HS and finally convinced my mom to subscribe to a little thing called AOL. Now, at first, this was the time when we actually paid for internet BY THE HOUR. What a primitive time those teen years of mine. Could you even imagine?!? But then the glorious day came when internet access was UNLIMITED. So while everyone and their mother was trying to get online, you got to wait and wait and wait for that annoying sound of your computer FINALLY connecting the internet after an hour of trying to log on, only to be kicked off 2 minutes later by a phone call for your mom. In these early days, email addresses/screennames could only be 10 characters long, hence the presence of only one "g" in my name. Aside from my love of frogs, I couldn't think up any other cool names, so Sweetfrogy was born. Here I am, 13 years (good lord I'm old!) later and still using the same name.

The name for my blog didn't take long for me to create, because I feel like my life has truly come full circle. I grew up in a place that I couldn't wait to abandon for something new, and ended up in a carbon copy suburb in a school district not half as large as the one I attended. I started out my life in ballet, moved on to designing costumes for the company, and then working in a costume shop in college. Now, not only do I own a business that has me continually designing and creating new things, but I'm also a costume designer for Hershey Park. Every time in my life that I was unhappy, was a time when I put my creativity aside in pursuit of what I thought were more impressive goals. Full Circle seemed a fitting title for a life that has found itself back where it started, but richer and more beautiful than I could ever imagine.