Hi Everyone, I just wanted to make an announcement that I just opened a shop on etsy. I am selling pre-made scrapbook pages and party game supplies and products that I made. Give me till the end of the week to upload more products for sale. You can find me at thriftartist.etsy.com. I am also simultaneously working on developing my website, Creative Playhouse, but I won't have it published for awhile yet. My products would make great Christmas gifts so be sure to check them out and tell everyone you know.

I just found out today that I was hired and start tomorrow at Olan Mills taking pictures for the Christmas season. I wish I had more time to get ready. After not working for 6 years then all of the sudden to be thrusts into a dizzy of conflicting schedules, lunches, and babysitters I wish I had a few more extra hours to get ready. I will have to be more efficient and prioritize so I probably won't be updating to often. Sorry friends YOU DON"T PAY MY BILLS!!! so you don't get first place.

I am over half way through my first semester studying graphic design online. I have been waiting many months for this moment when I get to learn illustrator. But I had to diligently plow through the many other subjects first. I am celebrating this milestone even though many more projects lay ahead. It will probably take me 3-4 years to get my associates degree at the pace that I am going but I just look at it one day at at time and before I know it 4 years will pass and I will be able to spend the rest of my life using my skills to develop products. Every chapter and pro  ject is one ste p closer to where I want to be.