Lots of News to Start the Year!

Wow!  Been a busy week!

On Wednesday, I accepted a freelance designer position with Creative Memories!  Yes, you heard right... the one and only Creative Memories!  They are branching out, wanting to move a bit into mainstream scrapbooking and I am so excited to have been selected as one of their new freelance designers!

This is one of the sample projects I created for CM.  This is an unfinished wooden frame from Michael's.  I painted the edges then covered with CM papers.  Added a few buttons & ribbon, used a CM quote sticker in the window & a CM alpha diecut sticker for the initial.  I really like how it turned out!

And on Thursday, I accepted a spot on the My Kits & Pieces design team!  I was a freelance designer for Rosy last fall, and now I'm thrilled to sign on as a regular!  Thank you Rosy!  The new site and message boards will be up soon, so keep checking in!

It's been a busy, scrapbook-y weekend too.  I worked on some projects for Memory Makers for the upcoming Ask The Masters 3 book due out this summer.  Love the LO I created!  But you will just have to wait for the book.;)

Last Monday night, I enjoyed Ryan's 1st 6th grade band concert.  Dang, I was AMAZED at how well my new camera/lens setup worked in a concert setting!  I took these pictures at 800 ISO, NO FLASH!!  The extreme close-up at full-out 300mm zoom no less!  I have never been able to take pictures at concerts before... sooooo exciting to get decent pictures even sitting near the back. :) 

Ryan is the french horn player... he's taking after me as I used to play french horn too. :)  I must say, I was VERY impressed with how well they sounded!  HUGE leaps and bounds since 5th grade.  Way to go buddy! :D

 

Tomorrow is my birthday (yay!)... nothing planned to speak of.  Probably just cake with the boys tomorrow night.  Oh, yeah... and Grant and I are starting piano lessons... tomorrow!!  I'm very excited about that!  We got a beautiful (!) Yamaha Clavinova CL240PE digital piano for Christmas (thank you Dad...again!!!).  It sounds amazing... it actually plays and sounds like a grand piano... such a beautiful sound filling the room!  Can't wait to learn to play!

Hope you're all enjoying a fruitful and "scrappy" New Year!! :D  ~Christine