about me

Hi! I'm Chey (pronounced like "shy").

she/her • 28 • appalachia, usa

I’m a UX/UI designer, illustrator, trinket collector, and serial hobby-dabbler. Chronically online since 1999. I first used a computer to make art in Microsoft Paint. My first internet search was for pictures of hamsters (I have been told that this is very on-brand for me). I used to print out walkthroughs from gameFAQs (with the ASCII art included, ofc).

I love cute things. I’m a firm believer in dopamine decor/dressing, so I do a lot of antiquing/thrifting. I love folklore and cryptids, and I believe in ghosts even though I’ve never seen one (maybe I will accidentally buy a haunted item someday). I easily get lost in wiki-based rabbit holes.

Fave Games

Legend of Zelda (OoT, MM, TWW, BotW, TotK)
Final Fantasy (VIII, X, X-2)
Animal Crossing
Pokemon (Emerald!, Soul Silver)
Stardew Valley
Minecraft
Zoo Tycoon
Neopets

Fave Music

Björk
Kate Bush
Queen
Glass Animals
Marina
Matchbox Twenty
PotUSA
Chappell Roan
Citypop!

Fave Movies

Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Blade Runner (1982)
The Thing (1982)
LotR Trilogy
Howl's Moving Castle
Muppet Treasure Island

Fave TV

Madoka Magica
What We Do in the Shadows
X-Files
K-On!
Little Witch Academia
Bob's Burgers

Fave Artists

John William Waterhouse
Alphonse Mucha
Yoshitaka Amano
Shanna Van Maurik

Miscellaneous Hobby List!

Illustration (Digital, Posca, Gouache, Pixel)
Analog Photography
Nail Art
Enamel Pins
Glass Collecting
Baking
Antiquing
Cheese  (yes it's a hobby, I cannot understate my passion for cheese)

about the site

Blue Meadows' name is inspired by the overworld theme ‘Blue Fields,’ from one of my favorite games!
You can listen to it here on Youtube.

This website is ~amateurly~ coded in HTML/CSS and is always improving. You can’t view it on your hot pink Motorola Razr V3 (read: it's NOT mobile-friendly), but care is taken to make sure it’s accessible through color contrast, text legibility, & alt text.

In the 2000s, a lot of young folks coming of age were learning to code through MySpace, GeoCities, Neopets, etc. From 2005–2010, I spent most of my free time learning to code HTML/CSS so that I could run a fansite for my favorite books series. It sparked my love for graphic/web design, and now I have a career in the field (and am shaped like a shrimp when I sit at my desk 🦐).

I'm incredibly nostalgic for those early internet days—you could make friends from around the world, and updating those friends once a week on your blog felt like the most important thing in the world. During those years, the world wide web was a funner and more personal place.

So, in 2025, I decided to revive my hobby from 20 years ago (!!!) by coding my own website and running this silly little blog. I want to keep this website as a Y2K time capsule as much as possible (highly personalized!! slightly buggy!! generally silly!!), and share things that bring me joy: like curating my collections, my art projects, my love for food/music/books, and my thoughts. I hope you find something here that sparks your own creativity.

Welcome to my pixel playground in this little corner of the world wide web!