Changing my blog back over finally is a welcome change! I wanted a fresh start when I retired from digital scrapbook designing but realized I wasn’t ready to just start over, I wanted to wait until all our plans came through and I could really get back into blogging about design and my love for the scrapbooking world.
Speaking of blogging, I honestly think I’ve used every flippin’ service out there to blog my thoughts the past four years, but nothing wins my heart like Wordpress does. When I retired my old blog, I moved over to a free service called Vox for a temporary fix (as I do blog for my photography business separately). Vox was NOT easy to customize and I had emails from people that couldn’t figure out how to leave me comments. When I finally got word that the information about Pink Paislee was going public I was thrilled to come back here and change things back.
Ahhh, the cats FINALLY out of the bag and here I am back home on my website posting.
I’ve been keeping this secret for some time now about all this. When Rebecca first talked to me about this I was beyond thrilled. Don’t get me wrong, I did enjoy designing for digital scrapbooking, but I really had to make decisions about what was most important in my life. That would be “my time” folks! I knew that I had to streamline life a bit as I had my hands in so many things and felt like I was losing control. My hard work and patience really has been paying off. Now, I can run my portrait business and design – JUST DESIGN – BEING CREATIVE. Someone else is in control of selling and marketing. I’m here to do what I love. I get to make beautiful art from my heart so you can use it in your scrapbooking and altered projects.
I am even more so pleased that Rebecca has an interest in some of the Pink Sugar Pop designs too – which is more scaling back for me in the business world. When you are your own sole-supporter, you do lots of odd jobs to make ends meet. My philosophy is work smarter, not harder. That means doing less and making more. I’m getting there slowly! Now you know why I marked things down at Pink Sugar Pop! We have to do lots of rework and branding – so grab what’s left over there while you can!
I am still not sure I’ve woke up from the dream. I’m doing everything I love. I have my own life portrait business and am designing for an amazing new scrapbook company. What more can you ask for? And, I’m working at incorporating my brother into the Pink Ink Studios business end so my time is freed up there! My design work there will probably dwindle, only including new things I do for my photography clients or if I get a wild hair to do something different. This is what it’s all about. A vision, a strong push, and reality finally coming to fruition.
So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you to Rebecca. I have faith and respect in her. We have many visions for what’s to come at Pink Paislee and I look forward to getting to know our users and sharing with you all my visions and thoughts about life and being creative.
And, I promise to always post a picture, even if it has NOTHING to do with designing or Pink Paislee or scrapbooking (hopefully not too much photography stuff to bore you to tears though)!
Before I go, I have to share quickly with my faithful readers that I had a lovely Christmas dinner with The Grotes, Megan’s first donor, and her pediatrician. I felt so honored to be asked to come to their home and spend time with them. Meeting Teresa was phenomenal. If you are not sure what I’m talking about, well, back in February I was reunited with a friend and his family and asked to photograph sweet little Megan. Megan has Allagille Syndrome and was on a transplant list for a new liver. Not even one-year old. I met them for their pictures and the next day, Megan went in for her surgery! The transplant was through a living donor, someone that did not know Megan or her family. A touching story you would learn more about on the news here in St. Louis. Unfortunately, Megan began to reject the liver and within a short time a cadaver liver was presented to them and she has since been healing and growing. She turned one in March and when I saw them in September I could tell how much she had changed. It was a true miracle. To the ladies that scrapbooked pages for Megan’s little book, Kristie mentions it all the time and cherishes it so much. I can’t thank you all enough for doing that for her.
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