Camp for all

Hi Bloggers,

I hope everyone had a great summer. Mine was mostly spent at school. We had a running reply to everyone around us that we were spending the summer with “Derrick”. That was our code word for saying we were basically at school 24/7.

We did our presentations for our projects to a live studio audience, a.k.a. our classmates. It is so nerve-wracking to do presentations in front of a group but we all got through it.

We did have some fun after classes were over. My family and I went to New York for a week. We had a great time and the weather was beautiful.  We got to see the Guggenheim Museum and the Cloisters Monastery and of course we had to visit our favorite store; ABC carpet and home.

ABC Home Store, NYC. #1

Photo courtesy of photographer Joshua Thomas Pugh - http://joshuathomaspugh.wordpress.com/

A great thing happened over the summer. I was able to obtain a lease on my future studio that I will be sharing with my son, Josh who just graduated from Randolph Community College with a degree in photography. We are currently painting and deciding where things are going to go, but it is really coming together.

I wanted to share with you our commercial design II project that we will be working on this semester.

We will be entering the Bernice Bienenstock Design Competition this fall. There are two categories: furniture design and interior design. We will be entering the interior design competition.

We will be designing a sleepover camp for special-needs kids and traditional kids.

We will be designing a first floor that will contain the activity area, storage, nurse’s office, 2 unisex restrooms, stage and prop room. The second floor will have the executive conference room, executive office, residential space consisting of a living/dining room, kitchen, half bath, master bedroom/bath, guest bedroom/bath, and laundry.

We recently visited the Victory Junction Gang Camp in Randleman, NC which opened in 2004. This is a very special camp. The designers and sponsors of this camp went to great lengths to make sure this camp can accommodate any special-needs child that wants to attend and not costs their family anything to send them here. Their motto is “feel your heart race” because it is a NASCAR themed camp inspired by the late Adam Petty. The Petty family made sure to see that Adam’s dream of having a camp like this come to fruition. I will say I got a little emotional watching the promotional video of the kids playing at the camp. I am so thankful to have healthy children and I can’t even imagine what it must be like to have a special-needs child. I am so glad that camps like Victory Junction exists for these kids.

 

So, bloggers that’s what I have coming up this fall and there will be some other projects that I will surely let you know about.

Until then…thanks for stopping by today! Have a Fabulous Fall!!