In my world there is no box. I have been designing and building projects all my life. I grew up in a family where my Dad was an entrepreneur/inventor and my parents were self-employed up until their retirement.Nicholas is an artist as well as an inventor. He lives in Maple Ridge, BC.I learned to weld and fabricate at age 15 enabling me to build my 1927 roadster pick up Hot Rod affectionately named Good Vibrations. I create unique Halloween costumes, one being an old school Wise Guy named “Shifty”, complete with concrete shoes, another being an Army Ant, an amalgamation of a soldier and the insect. The current costume is an Interstellar Bounty Hunter.I've been in a variety of different work environments since the age of 14. My first job was busing tables in a restaurant then to working in a shop that hand manufactured oars and paddles. In the early 1990's I worked as a Make-up Artist in the Vancouver film industry wanting to do Special Effects make up. In the early 2000's I was an Assistant manager for an industrial supply company. Since 2004 I have been a certified welder.Creative problem solving, designing and building projects is what I enjoy. I take pride in seeing a project through to the end. I use all of my past experiences to ensure a functional and aesthetically pleasing final product. I have the ability to design a project keeping in mind how to make it manufacturable if need be, functional, more efficient and aesthetically pleasing. I’m in the process of finding a house with a shop that suits my needs to enable me to open my own creative design studio Blueflame Creative so I can work from home. Read more about this authorRead less about this author