Hello world! My name's Rhea but I'm also known as Chaos Tamer.

So I have to admit that I'm new to blogging. Of course I look at great blogs all day, but this might be my first blog post...ever.

Let me start telling you a little about how Chaos Tamer came to be.

I came to San Francisco almost 7 years ago to study interior design. After working for a residential designer and later a large architecture firm I realized that while I love design, that path was just not right for me. When the economy tanked, I was left unemployed just four months before my wedding. Of course I felt a bit of panic at first (as anyone who's been laid off will tell you) but it ended up being a really great thing for me. I spent those four months planning our wedding to a tee, I started doing Pilates about four times a week and just mentally prepared myself for this next phase of life. During this time, the thought of Chaos Tamer literally came to me in my sleep, even the name. The next morning I bought the domain name and started hashing out a plan. The general idea was to become a professional organizer and help people reclaim their homes from the clutter that's taken over.

My new husband and I

The wedding came and went (and was the very best day of my life) and the honeymoon also came and went. And when I finally returned back to Earth from spending all of October on cloud 9 it was time to get to work on making this dream my reality.

The view from our over water bungalow (!)

So here we are. This business is in the VERY early stages, we just got the website live yesterday and I don't even have business cards yet! (Although they are designed...just need to get them printed)

I also have my VERY fist Chaos Tamer client meeting tomorrow, redesigning the product display case at my Pilates studio.

I hope to blog about this journey of starting my own business, but I also hope to share things that catch my fancy. I love fashion and food and really almost anything domestic. My friends will tell you that I'm so organized it's almost to a fault. Here is to hoping I can teach other people how to adopt some of those skills!

P.S. Since I don't have any photos yet of project related stuff, I thought I share a wedding photo and what is now the desktop image of my computer.