Announcing....

Yeesh! I can practically hear blogger dashboard creaking and the smell of virtual dust is making me virtually sneeze. Five months later, and my big announcement is finally here and off the ground:

I've started a business!! Yes, me and my sis are partners in a grand new (ad)venture called Jabberdashery. It's where I post for sale the things I make digitally all the time anyway. Interestingly, the hardest thing has been to be OK with calling myself a graphic designer without feeling like a pretender. But I am and I love it and I'm pretty darn good and getting better all the time.

This blog will remain our family and my personal blog. But I'll also be blogging over at Jabberdashery.com about every week, too. And it won't be a lot of marketing hype. See, the artwork I'm doing is very personal and very inspirational. To be honest, I kind of hate that word "inspirational." It's something a cliche, isn't it? And "motivating" isn't much better. But the idea is for me to share some kind of story or message that helps move people up and through their day. What's a better word for that? One that means "onward and upward!!!" with the force of several exclamation points??

I have to make this blog short and to get back to my regularly scheduled Jabberdashery work time. I plan to chronicle how all this came about, the seed that was planted, the things that nourished it. But I need to go finish writing up the schedule and do a few things for a new design/product we are hopefully going to launch next month. here you can read that tells part of the story. If you've missed me, you should subscribe to it because I'll be there regularly every Wednesday from here on out! And as we get settled (did I mention we moved to Kansas??) and get into more of a routine (did I mention we are trying out homeschooling??) I hope to be back here more often. Cuz I've got some new lines to share!! Life has been....life. Hard, crazy, amazing, and awesome.
In the meantime, there is a pretty good blog post