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I did it. I just put my application for the Ormolu design team in “the mail”. 30 seconds ago, I hit the SEND button, and now I will just have to wait until May 20th to hear who will be chosen. Actually, whatever happens will be for the best. I think that if I am not on the team, I can’t allow myself to feel like I am terrible, no good, all the rest; it’s just not meant to be. Period.

I started vacation yesterday, and it feels soooooooo good!! Things had been so stressful the last week of work, I don’t think I could have timed this vacation any better. Now, I have had the time to prepare my admissions for Ormolu, and do some other things I have been wanting to do. Since Ormolu is checked off the list, I can go on to item #2: the hand-made art book collaboration with Hubby. Yesterday and today I ordered some supplies from Bookmakers, Inc. in Maryland. Very nice, helpful people. I had gotten a new book on hand-made bookbinding at Barnes & Noble Sunday, so I have a better sense of what I need, and how I will be doing it. I will be updating here when I actually get some supplies and begin that journey. Very excited, but nervous!

I don’t know what happened yesterday, but I got into this awesome creative momentum where I just started doing things, and planning, and figuring, and thinking, and everything just came together so well. I came up with a new layout to send with my email to Ormolu, I made a banner, and I made some cards, as well. Just for fun, I will show you what I made and sent:

a fun banner to cheer any wall

I revised this journal to improve it with Ormolu embellishments

these tags are so pretty, and I love the colors, too.

making this was a lot of fun...a lot of sewing, too!

this may be familiar to many of you...

So now that I am on vacation, I will be back a little more often to give updates on new things I am working on. Those creative juices are flowing! Happy creating!

paper love!

I am a huge fan of Ormolu products. I have so many that I have a dedicated drawer labeled, “Ormolu”. I use her tags and paper embellishments often, I follow her blog, and she’s a favorite of mine on Etsy. So recently, Kaitlin, the owner, put out a call for design team members. How exciting! Anyone may apply, and must simply send in a little bit about yourself and three items with Ormolu products featured on them. I have many, but are they good enough? Of course not. I want to submit something absolutely fabulous and mondo beyondo perfect. Can I do it? I’m nervous. I’m anxious. I’m….stumped. Where do I begin, and what do I do? Ormolu does not just make products for scrapbooking; she also caters to those who love stationary, cards, and more. More? Well, I’ll try…but I’m apprehensive, and thus I have done literally nothing. My deadline is May 14, and I can come up with no ideas. Zip, zero, zilch. I tell myself each and every evening that I am going to do research and planning to get concrete ideas together, and then actually begin to make something the next day I am off. But I haven’t. I think my nervousness has become a mental block preventing me from doing anything. I am rather good at avoidance, as I am proving to myself right now. So, I have taken all these supplies I photographed above, and poured them onto my bed so I will have to do something with them, hopefully soon. The tags, paper chains and flappers are so pretty and unique, there’s no way I can let this opportunity pass me by; anyone chosen to be on the design team will get freebies bi-monthly, and more chances to get our creative endeavors published. Quite an honor! I just have to do it. I have to find the faith in myself, and, like Nike, just do it. Sigh…I’m taking a deep breath, and I will be back again with an update. Wish me luck, and if anyone has any ideas at all, I am open for suggestions….and feedback, as well!

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