You’ve built something worth talking about.
The hard part isn’t the work itself; you’ve proven you can do the work. The hard part is translating twenty years of expertise, a hundred client wins, and everything you’ve learned the hard way into a website that makes a stranger say: yes, this is exactly who I’ve been looking for.
I don’t just build websites.
I create a space where you can discover what you want to say, and then I make sure the world hears it.
Most designers ask you to fill out a questionnaire and hand over your content. I do something different. I listen. I ask the questions that make you pause. I dig into your industry, your competitors, your audience, and the specific clients you want to attract before a single page gets designed. What comes out the other side isn’t just a beautiful website. It’s a digital presence that sounds unmistakably like you, works strategically for your business, and makes you genuinely proud every time you share it. That’s the difference between a website that exists and one that works.
The long way around is still the way.
I started freelancing right out of college. Not as a side hustle, as a calling. I knew early on that I was meant to make things, and I wasn’t willing to wait for someone to to give me permission or hand me an opportunity. I cut my teeth in print shops along the way; the kind of environments where if your work wasn’t exactly right, the press would tell you so in about 10,000 copies. Meticulous doesn’t begin to cover it. From there, I moved into newspapers, building my craft across formats, learning how a story could live in a layout, how the right design choice could make someone feel something before they’d read a single word. And through all of it, I kept freelancing. Building LD Creative Designs on the side, client by client, late night by late night. Because some part of me always knew where this was heading. Then life handed me a plot twist I didn’t ask for…
The chapter that changed everything.
Being diagnosed with breast cancer has a way of clarifying things. It made me ask the hard questions I’d been too busy (maybe even too scared) to ask. What do I actually want to build? Who do I actually want to serve? What does it mean to do work that matters? When I returned to work after my diagnosis, surgeries, and treatment, the answer became impossible to ignore: life is too short to play small at a job that doesn’t serve you. So I stopped. I went full-time with LD Creative Designs and never looked back. Not because the path got easier; it didn’t, not at first. But because building something on your own terms, for people who genuinely value the work, turns out to be exactly what I was made for. More than 20 years of experience. Hundreds of projects. And still, every single client engagement starts the same way: with me listening, really listening, to understand what you’ve built and what you need the world to know about it.
What I stand for.
These aren’t words on a wall. They’re the lens through which I do every single piece of work.
Wonder
There is magic in the everyday: a fern unfurling, the way light comes into a room just so. I never want to lose sight of that. It’s what keeps my work from going on autopilot.
Grit
Getting through hard things (really hard things) builds something you can’t get any other way. I bring that same persistence to every project, especially the complicated ones.
Acceptance
The quirky bits we try to hide or smooth over? That’s the good stuff. In business and in design, the most magnetic brands are the ones brave enough to be exactly what they are.
Individuality
There is no single right way to run a business or build a brand. There are infinite possibilities for who to be and how to show up. My job is to find yours.
The person behind the work.
I’ve been a print shop perfectionist, a newspaper designer, a cancer survivor, and an entrepreneur who decided to stop waiting for permission. I knit. I paint. I travel whenever I can. I talk to my cat like he understands me (he does, even though his facial expressions say otherwise). And I genuinely, deeply believe that nature is the best reset button there is. If I go too long without soil under my feet, something in me gets restless. I’m telling you this because the work I do is personal. I’m not a studio with a team of juniors. I’m one person who shows up fully, asks the hard questions, listens longer than feels comfortable, and stays until everything feels right. My clients come back not because I handed them a beautiful website (though I do that) but because working together felt like something. Like they were finally seen. Like all of their hard work was worth it. That’s what I’m here to build with you.
Sound like a fit? Let’s find out.
The best client relationships I’ve ever had started with a single conversation. If you’re a leadership coach, consultant, or women-owned business ready to invest in a digital presence that does your work justice, I’d love to meet you.