Monica began collaborating and sharing a workshop with Sally Peterson, at Big Star Ranch and the Funkyard, in 2015. Combining their expertise in design and fabrication with a few others that specialize in construction, painting and graphic design, they have created Overall Collective Design (OCD). They create  projects together that combine their shared commitment to creating things as sustainably as possible, using reclaimed material and upcycling, in an effort to limit their carbon footprint. Thanks to the rapidly growing "salvage movement" combined with Peterson and Hughes' mastery in metal and wood, their work began attracting local and national attention. Monica and Sally are master craftswomen, and along with their team, they “can do anything.”