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Head Of Design @myrileyapp 🚀 ✦ Generally building community and/or furniture ✦ Prev. @etsy @healthcare

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3 months

📣Life update📣 In April, I joined the small but mighty team @MyRileyApp as Head Of Design. Today we opened our waitlist for Riley: your new parenting ✨superpower✨ Parenting doesn’t come with a manual, but now it comes with an app. So, what’s Riley?⬇️

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@mehermakes

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2 years

Product design manager friends! 🗣 Curious what your portfolios look like, share ones you like (or even yours) down below 👇🏽

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11 months

After nearly three years at @Etsy , I was impacted by the layoffs yesterday. As an immigrant in this country on a work-reliant visa, these things hit extra hard. Grateful for the resources & support of friends. Meanwhile, if you have an open design role on a B2C team, DM me👋🏽

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4 years

Work in progress “great beyond” #Soul @figmadesign (Safe to say I’ve learnt things In Figma I never thought I could do yesterday😅)

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3 years

No, really. Presenting to world — DIY dupe bone inlay dresser ✨

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3 years

Might fuck around and DIY a whole dresser…

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4 years

Taking breaks from screen time by making. Arabic letters in candles #DIY

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4 years

Is it weird that the better I’m getting at designing components/auto layouts in @figmadesign , the better I’m getting at @webflow ? Anyone else?😅

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3 years

✨Life Update✨ Tomorrow is my first day @etsydesign 🥳 I’m SO stoked! BIG shoutout to @vickiheart for helping start it all @younglucas for YEARS of guidance, @himani @ronleeeee & @prinkletown for giving me their time+efforts+insights What a full circle moment feels like👇🏽🧵

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4 years

@sheetaverma @rianasingh_ I tried to take my parents for a really fancy dinner w my first paycheck and found out at the end of the dinner that my Dad already paid the whole bill when they entered (even though they came late). Peak desi amiright

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3 years

walked away from what felt like aspects of my dream apartment for 2021 yesterday so just gonna let this live here for later ✨

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3 years

When you go to a “design conference” & come home after a week to realize that maybe only 10-15% of your meaningful conversations were actually about design. This community is filled with so much wisdom, humility, talent, and experience — grateful for @Epicurrence for a EPIC week.

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4 years

Designers in tech talking about inclusivity while gatekeeping elitist-design culture like it’s their job. Check yoself friends! ITS JUST A JOB!

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8 years

"We weren't born woke. Something wakes us up. Also, there's a difference between being woke and staying woke." @deray #newschoolgrad 🤘🏽😍

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3 years

Told someone recently “Oh I don’t drink” and their immediate reaction was “So what do you do to relax after work?!” Do people who drink really have no other way to relax? Like where do I even start

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2 years

DIY’d this live edged wood mirror for my bedroom for $130 and admiring the natural wood grains is just 🤌🏽😚 thank you to the tree that made this possible🤍

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4 years

Day one of funemployment ✨

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2 years

Yesterday evening my papa passed away. I have no words for what this loss feels like. I’m so heartbroken by his sudden and quick departure. If you have a moment today, light a candle for us and him & hold your loved ones close 🤍

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2 years

@juanbuis Cause you can’t take calls here 😭 still the best place for focus days 🤍

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3 years

Excited to share I'll be speaking at #config2022 with @uxonmymind 🔥✨ come through!

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3 years

Registration is officially open for #Config2022 🥳 This year we’re going global with talks from 100 speakers from over 20 countries in 8 languages. And, it’s all taking place over 24 hours. As always, registration is free. We can’t wait to see you there!

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3 years

Surfed for the first time today and that’s on moving forward with courage 2 years after being in an injury that had me in a wheelchair for 3 months. Shoutout to @DannPetty for reaching with patience, hype, motivation and validation! 🤙🏽

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3 years

I realize that @figmadesign was made for designing in pixels but (as we’ve all established) we’re clearly using it for a lot more! Team games, interior designing, etc,…so can we please get in/cm as measuring units? Sincerely, Designer trying to model a Moroccan shelf in Figma

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3 years

On a flight back to New York and knowing I go home to a space that’s all my creation in various forms is a bliss I’m forever eternally grateful for 🤍

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3 years

Okay last @Epicurrence tweet🤞🏽 but @DannPetty @krispuckett are LEGENDS for putting all their thoughtfulness + energy into this space. I’m sad it’s over but so pumped to see all the incredible things all the awesome folks I met this past week will do. CC 📸 @kaejonmisuraca

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3 years

@etsydesign is hiring a junior/IC2 Product Designer for our Support Product team (remote but based in US). If you have a strong recommendation please send them my way 👀 Great opportunity to learn and grow with guidance and a super diverse, talented, and welcoming team! DM me👋🏾

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4 years

@dipalua_ The level of petty we support in this house 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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3 years

Still one of my fav interactions I've built on @webflow 🥰 inspired by @Apple website on launch days.

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4 years

@lilykonings Yes! We need more of this. Especially hearing from women in startups versus midsized versus bigger companies / negotiating and wealth management.

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8 years

Where there is love nothing is too much trouble & there is always time. — The Baha'i Writings🙏 #qotd @justinbaldoni

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2 years

Get ready to laugh with us at our bad jokes and share stories with ya’ll at #config2022 in less than 3 hours! 🥰 See ya’ll there!

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2 years

@figma @zoink Vanessa, a true icon. Thanks for co-founding Figma for all of us 🫠

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3 years

Love this for you @chiefgayofficer (and us) @bumble x @CoupletCoffee Twitter friends! Pull up next weekend at Bumble Brew for some good vibes & delicious coffee 🥰

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3 years

First time in a office since 2019 end and first time at this office, needless to say 18 year old Meher is *living*

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3 years

✨Life Update✨ Tomorrow is my first day @etsydesign 🥳 I’m SO stoked! BIG shoutout to @vickiheart for helping start it all @younglucas for YEARS of guidance, @himani @ronleeeee & @prinkletown for giving me their time+efforts+insights What a full circle moment feels like👇🏽🧵

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3 years

Todays New York sunset really overcompensating for coming in so early…

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3 years

Wrapped up my 26th year living this wonderful life & started my 27th lap around the sun in the most Meher ways: spa days, community service, DIYing furniture, dancing it out to Bollywood music being surrounded by the people I love & lots of cake. So grateful 🥰

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4 years

Anyone know senior product designers looking for new roles? 👀 tag them below or DM me! 👋🏽

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3 years

First day at new job @Etsy mood 🥺 As much as I miss the ocean & waterfalls already, I cannot recommend taking that time off / PTO if you can. So excited for this next chapter!

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3 years

10 years ago I could barely believe I was applying for design school in New York. Today I’m setting up & designing my first solo apartment into a home piece by piece in New York. What a life! 🚀

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3 years

@rianasingh_ Valuable advice my bro gave me many yrs ago when I was laid off & suffered w job-identity crisis: “make your self worth bout things no one can take from you, your kindness, compassion, creativity, free spiritedness. Not ur job, apartment, friends” 4ever manifesting this for all🌱

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2 years

Visiting my parents in Portugal: where coffee is €1.50 and gym memberships are €9.99 🤌🏽😚

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3 years

Lost a family member in India to covid this morning while 4 other fam members are on ventilators. This is the situation for MILLIONS of people (& worse) in SA countries right now. If you’ve ever benefited from any aspect of desi culture (henna, turmeric lattes, yoga, etc) PLEASE

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3 years

My favorite part of living alone as an adult is being able to order a burger, fries, and a shake to binge a docuseries under a heavy blanket and no one is around to steal that joy 🤌🏽 😚

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3 years

Move-in week has been all kinds of chaotic but I’m so grateful 💛

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2 years

We out’chea @uxonmymind #config2022

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4 years

On the bright side, I’ve been experimenting with @figmadesign for the last 2 weeks in hopes to have our design (and other stakeholders) team migrate from XD/Sketch to Figma and can I just say... NO DESIGN TOOL HAS GIVEN ME SUCH JOY IN A VERY LONG TIME!

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2 years

I don’t know how anyone ever recovers from losing a parent suddenly and quickly. My dad and I were planning to go to Leroy Merlin (Home Depot of Portugal) next week to look at wood tones for fun. That’s who my papa was, an absolutely icon and champion.

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2 years

Spent yesterday morning with @AptTherapy while they photographed my space 🙏 all the behind the scenes @mehermakes on IG ✨🤍

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2 years

Subletting my 1br apartment in the east village for December and part of Jan. Open to friends or friends of friends ONLY. Prefer wxmen staying here. Laundry/elevator building, space big enough for 2 people. DM me if you’re interested 🤍

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3 years

End of night walk home with an empty bottle of tequila so I can turn it into a lamp #personalitypic

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2 years

I love my neighborhood 🤍

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3 years

@anjsud @Vimeo Big big congrats! That suit is giving me life 🥵🥵

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2 years

Wrapping up my #config2022 day with my fav Figmate and some paneer 🤍 @dipalua_ and her lovely space!

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2 years

This morning I feel like that skeleton next to @jeremiahjw 🥲🥲🥲 #config2022 #justvibes

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3 years

25,000 steps in 2 pictures

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3 years

If you (or anyone you know) based in the US is a rockstar senior product designer who enjoys data driven design + looking for a new role & interested to work at @etsydesign — DM me 👀

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2 years

Thank you everyone who supported, hyped, and watched us share Our Idea House at #config2022 , here is the community link for you to dig deeper into this and start creating your own versions :) @uxonmymind @figma :

Meher & Jerrie's Idea House — Config 2022 | Figma

Design as a catalyst to organizational design, connection, and delight - Meher & Jerrie. You can see our deck here. We created a fully interactive virtual house for an internal Etsy conference for...

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@mehermakes

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2 years

For the last few months, I’ve had the honor to plan, execute, & host the @etsydesign conference — for the 1st time we invited 30+ emerging designers, host a fully hybrid event, & supported a multilingual format. Together, we build vibrant communities & I’m so grateful for it🤍

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2 years

Life lately: Lots of Rosa de Jamaica, saffron pistachio chia puddings, heavy lifting, investing in my hobbies, letting work be just that, & going with the flow 😌 🍒

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2 years

#config2022 immaculate vibes only ✨✨✨

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3 years

This evening I got my booster shot and then finally DIY-ed this tequila bottle into a lamp (before my arm soreness and headache kicked in). Here’s a work in progress —

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3 years

End of night walk home with an empty bottle of tequila so I can turn it into a lamp #personalitypic

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3 years

Still one of my favorite things I created in late 2020-early 2021 ☺️

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3 years

@malouie While I agree that initiative+foresight is 🔑, I wonder if this puts too much pressure (early on esp) on entry level designers who have struggled to put themselves through college/haven’t been able to afford many low/unpaid internships & didn’t have the same opps that I did 1/3

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3 years

Reunited with my parents after 3 WHOLE YEARS and many failed plans because of Covid. Having them with me in New York during the holy days of fasting and seeing their joy is easily my favorite thing🤍 I’m so grateful and wish this joy upon everyone one✨

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3 years

Spent a week at @Epicurrence recently and left with many new friends and lotsa new perspective, biggest shoutout to @DannPetty & @krispuckett <3

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4 years

Made a whole Lebanese feast today for fast breaking at sunset and that’s on being homesick. #Dubaibabyfoeva

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3 years

Somedays I realize that I really live in an apartment by myself in a space that is all my vision & joy and sit here doing the most mundane thing (like cutting many sheets of paper) w the biggest smile on my face. College Meher would be so proud 🥺🙏

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3 years

curls come out to play 🤍

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4 years

✨Career update✨ Next week is going to be my last week at , after almost 3 yrs — 9 month stint in Guatemala, wheelchair injury, pandemic, improving conversion 36%, and thurs lunches— I’m sad to be leaving this awesome team and excited for what’s next 👀

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3 years

I finally got around to finishing the dupe chair, 16 hours and $105 later…here it is —

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3 years

Started this week with a few new interior design clients & these sunny spots around my living room in an otherwise very cold New York 🤍🧿

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3 years

Picked up a bar stool off the streets of New York and refurbished it into a plant stand 🥰

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3 years

If you’ve read this far, thank you ☺️ I hope you’ll do something to amplify the voices of youth in your community, POC run small-businesses, the women in your life, your direct-reports, or maybe even your inner voice that is holding you back. Wish me luck! 👋🏽

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4 years

Launching new candle holders, tea light candle holders, & trays tomorrow✨ Donating 100% of all profits till March 1 to @tahirihjustice , @girlsclubny , Send Chinatown Love in the spirit of Ayyamiha — a Baha’i festival of service & community Link in bio to support good causes!❤️

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3 years

Getting catcalled in 37°C in New York and telling the scumbag to fuck right off only to have him say “you’re not that hot keep moving bitch” like WHY ARE MEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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3 years

Exhausting time to be alive where my mental capacity is divided between ramping up into a new job, crisis in India and losing loved ones, and trying to have meaningful discourse with people on human rights in Palestine. Make it make sense.

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4 years

And so I did — ☺️✨🥁 check it out! Thanks to all the wonderful people who have already placed an order, encouraged me to do this, and been so positive in this creative endeavor 🙌🏽

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@mehermakes u should start an Etsy shop :)

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4 years

Got an overwhelming amount of support for the resin coasters I’ve been making. I shipped out a few sets of coasters this past week, seeing them come alive in peoples spaces (below) is so rewarding 🥺✨ #mehermakes

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10 months

🗣️ design friends 🗣️ Do you know anyone @netflix ? I’m interested in an ads role on their design team and would love to get an intro/connect. Thank you ❤️

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2 years

Starting my 28th year around the sun with high quality humans, laughs, dance parties on New York sidewalks, & obviously morning treats at La Cabra ✨ so grateful 🤍

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10 months

Every morning I wake up and check @figma careers in hope that maybe an IC design role is open and every morning, it is not 🫠

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4 years

As we go into Spring and potentially into more-skin-showing season, here’s a reminder: You are not meant to fit in your clothes, they are meant to fit you. Go get yourself a new pair of jeans that fit better/make you feel better if you need to. You still look amazing, sweetie!

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4 years

Making cheeseboards for 1, working on creative passion projects, taking naps whenever I want, & spending time enjoying my own company is literally my very definition of funemployment. Thank you, universe, for this life!!!! 🥰

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4 years

Reviews like these got me like 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 #etsyshop

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3 years

Might fuck around and DIY a whole dresser…

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4 years

Seeing a lot of “can’t believe I live here” tweet about New York today, and just wanna send us all a collective “hi!” and hi-five for being here, being grateful, and living our own versions of our best lives 🥰

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3 years

Would be awesome if @loom partnered with tools like @getclockwise & prompted people setting up 30> meetings to send a Loom instead. A gentle “could this meeting be a loom?” nudge would save everyone some time ✨I’d think that getting new users to onboard/remember is challenging💭

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4 years

@hiangelali Ask him if he’s free to change the bandages tomorrow

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9 months

Life lately: designed and built a bench for my dining room makeover ✨ (Obvi documenting everything on IG: @mehermakes )

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4 years

Afternoons spending time with myself and appreciating the world around me is it’s own kind of ✨bliss✨☺️ #spring

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3 years

Gentle reminder to take a [1:1 call as a] walk today — especially all my New York people 💛

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3 years

Out of office ✨

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4 years

Dating in New York

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3 years

Two months ago I saw this @Anthropologie chair for $900 and decided to make a dupe for myself. This was my inspo anthro chair and then the vision board I mapped out to dupe it. I found a similarly structured @Wayfair chair on @Facebook marketplace for $30. It was in BAD shape.

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4 years

Dispo bringing to life yesterdays sunny warm winter day while it snows today 🥺

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4 years

The setup: The (WIP) art:

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3 years

Took a mental health day to tend to my anxiety. What I thought I’d do: clean apartment, nap, write article. So far I’ve: bought flowers & PB choco cups, taken 2 naps, made fresh basil pesto, face mask, Netflix, sit in the sun, called my parents. Planning to eat a bake later.

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3 years

Not me onboarding half my team onto @loom to make work flows easier (aka less meetings). At this point I should just have a brand ambassador unlimited account ✨✨

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3 years

Asking the monstera Gods to bless me 🤲🏽🌱

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3 years

Successfully pulled off a New York MTA themed baby shower in LA ✅ very very ready to be a Bua (auntie) for the first time 🥰

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3 years

Hi design-tweeps! Curious if any PMs/product designers here have an architecture background? I have a close friend who’s interested In pivoting after 7 years in architecture/PMing and would love some thoughtful advice! Any help appreciated ♥️

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4 years

Celebrating Nawruz as a Baháí at end of 19 days of fasting is truly one of my biggest joys every year. Even if it’s in a pandemic for 2nd year now & far away from home. نوروز مبارک✨

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