Today we’d like to introduce you to Becky Marshall

Hi Becky, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.

I’ve always been a maker, a creative sort, growing up and now to where I am today. Whether it was creating whole cities out of paper bags, tape, and markers, mud pancakes on a hot street, to working in theater for two decades then television and film for a few years, making and creating has been who I am at my core.

These days my projects are my house, taking it apart and putting it back together, a sort of constant theater project in itself, baking, then writing about both on two blogs, Flipping the Flip and The Bake Dept. I can’t go without making things or creating something, I’m constantly seeking creative outlets, so I created The Antisign Shop, a riff on the “live laugh love” home decor wall signs but with a (dark) humorous Opposite Day bent.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?

Of course it hasn’t been a smooth road, there have always been bumps and struggles along the way. Following the norms of society with a day job and steady paycheck has been, how to say, not a route I’ve been able to obey per se. Finding ways to create something out of nothing, whether it be finding work to pay bills or finding outlets to share my creative works or products then being found is a bumpy road that is a constant. On the plus side, these things have taught me how to balance wants and needs, find the route to feeling fulfilled in what I do.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?

Generally I’m probably known best as being a bit of a weirdo, or I imagine so anyway! Currently I work for an architect as a draftsperson that helps monetarily which also allows me to use creative skills while I pursue my two blogs, working on our house, baking, and making things such as the Antisigns.

I’m most proud of finding a balance in life that allows me to express my creativity as much as possible, making things out of nothing into something fabulous.

What sets me apart from others is having a strong ability to think outside the box, look at things from different angles, see what others might miss, and how that can be turned into something unique or better than how it started.

We all have a different way of looking at and defining success. How do you define success?

Great question as everyone defines success differently. Success to me isn’t about money and having lots of it necessarily. While that would be nice and helpful, success to me is living life with the ability to grow, learn, and absorb, to experience things like seeing the world, always seeing new things, and being able to live out what’s inside me, living creatively. Success to me is being able to live freely as myself, a creative person.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.flippingtheflip.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flippingtheflip/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/flippingtheflip
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@flippingtheflip/videos
• Other: https://www.theantisignshop.com

Image Credits
Photos are by Becky Marshall