Wednesday, October 17, 2007

New Horizons.

Well, won't get into it, but "Gray skies are gonna clear up, put on a happy face." The future has possibilities and I am HAPPY. That's a word I wouldn't have used to describe me lately, but things are lookin' up! You know who you are. (wink, wink) I even digital scrapped a page today with my kit Eclectic Autumn. Let me know what you think.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Better All The Time.

Things haven't changed much in my life, busy as ever, with no signs of changing. I'm still working alot and trying to make time for me and my design stuff, but also making some great friends along the way. Mars and Jo are amazing people who I really feel like I've formed a bond with strangely enough over email. We are all apart of KJOI Studios at www.kjoistudios.com and are all the same age and I think that has sort of bonded us, along with other stuff too.

Mars is an awesome designer and has some of her designs over at KJOI too, http://kjoistudios.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=9 she's definitely worth checking out. She is running a sale of 50% off and so, what better time to buy than NOW! She has a really nice blog you should check out too, never at a loss for a thoughtful affirmation, cactusmango.blogspot.com

Jo is a very busy mom of a 9 month old and a nurse, who somehow finds time to create beautiful LO's with our kits from over at KJOI. Her blog is fun to read and always full of gorgeous things she's created, luckygirljo.blogspot.com/ check her out.

Thank God for creating situations that put you right within the line of sight of very cool people. I don't get out much anymore and really only see people I've known all my life, so the internet is my new frontier for friendships and I'm so happy to have met these awesome ladies.

Here is a pic of my latest kit "Freaky Creepies" named for what Stella refers to those cool halloween ads with costumes that we all receive in the mail at this time of year. Once I get it into the shop, I think I'll only be selling it for like $3.00 as I would like to sell as much as I can, and maybe the weekend before Halloween I'll run a 50% off sale.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Whistle While You Work.

So, they say you can get anywhere with persistence and hard work. I believe that it's true, I feel like I work extremely hard, but when will it start to feel like it's paying off? Maybe I'm not focused enough, maybe it's just not time yet. Whatever it is, I just hope I don't run out of steam before it does.

I realized today that my little girl is no longer my little girl. I've already felt that "push" they make to sort of separate themselves from you. It made me sad. I try to grab hold of her as often and I can, but she always manages to slip away. Today I sat on the edge of the bath tub, picked up her nearly 4 foot frame and sat her on my knees. I held her face in my hands and said "I really love you, you know that?" Her response, "you do?" Then she pushed herself off of me and ran into her room, after that we sorted her laundry and went to the basement. I know that she knows I love and am in love with her, but I never want her to not hear it. I don't think you can say that enough to a child. She's everything I never knew I wanted.
























I've created a new kit for KJOI www.kjoistudios.com that I am extremely proud of and poured my heart into and I hope folks really dig it. No one has purchased it yet, but I'm hoping that with being in the "Designer Spotlight" for our next ezine due out October 5th, free to download at the KJOI website mentioned above, that it really prompts people to buy. I spent a whole lot of time on this one and it's WHO I AM! This is my passion people, please be supportive. If you don't scrapbook, tell your friends that do. If you do paper scrapping, trying something digital, maybe it will inspire you creatively. Also, the advantage to digital scrapbooking is that you possess those materials for the life time of your ability to save the digital images. You can use them millions of times and even print them out to use for hybrid or even 100% paper scrapbooking. Here is the preview I created of my kit, Eclectic Autumn. It fing rocks in my opinion.