Age

Now I'm worried! Digital Scrapbook Place asked for a head shot of myself so I had my son take a picture of me last night. Several in fact but finally I declared that the one on the right would do. The picture on the left is from two years ago. I look as if I have aged a whole lot more than just two years.

The girl on the left looks as if she is full of fun and creativity. She looks like she spends her days doing interesting activities. The woman on the right looks she's got a load of laundry in the washer and just needs to get the picture taken so she can move on to the dinner dishes.

This is so not what I think of as a picture of a designer. That picture will likely bug the snot out of me until I can get a new picture of myself. One where I don't look like I am 40 and somebody's mom. Not that being 40 and someone's mom is a bad thing, it's just not what I think of when I think of designer. A designer is some one who travels the globe for inspiration not someone who digs dog toys out from under the couch so the dog will quit whining.

I was bummed to have to write my own bio as well. You see, I have a published author of more than a dozen books as a girlfriend and wanted to have her write it for me. BUT she is on vacation right now and the bio needed to get done. I don't think I did half bad for a home hack but I think Lisa Wingate would have made me sound soooooo much more interesting.

After all, I'm a designer now. I can't be boring and frumpy!

My space

So I have discovered that if I hide out in the basement, no one will bother me.


The basement is great because all of my creative junk is down here. Yes, it's junk. I'd have to be crazy to say this stuff is valuable to anyone in it's present stage. There are 5 chairs is various stages of re-upholstery, two commercial embroidery machines that could really use their annual tune up, three computers (they are all on and in use by me today) two printers, a broken fax machine, the old couch and love seat from the first year of our marriage, a bean bag chair also from the first year of our marriage, totes filled with fabric, lace, yarn, paint, buttons, silk flowers, and patterns, an iron sitting on an ironing board, a heat press, a nortic trak exercise machine covered in dust, a drum set, a plastic playhouse and workbench, Fisher Price toys that are nearly as old as I am, probably 200 or so matchbox cars, several rubber frogs, marbles (those are fun to step on), two totes full of stuffed animals, and a 50 gallon trash can filled with scrap fabric that looks as if it exploded...yeah, I got in to it for inspiration.


Only the dog and the kid come down here to stay. Just a treasure trove of stuff down here for the dog and for the kid, it's an area that is already a mess just begging to be messed up more. One day it might be finished and be this great looking place. If it does happen, I sure hope I don't loose the creativity that is always in the air down here.

This is my for real work desk. And it actually looks pretty good in this picture.

Above is the first embroidery machine I bought in 1994 and below is the one that was purchased in 1998. Both are old and most days crankier than I am.

Would ya just look at all of that cool crap. Just oodles and oodles of it!!!!!

Above is the main sewing area. The old Dell computer is there. It is the only one old enough to "talk" to the older embroidery machine. Next to that is the broken fax machine. I really need to fix that. Then there is my sewing table. Notice the heater for my feet.

Below is the heat press and iron. Oh and my mud boots for outside.

Here is a school project for Zak in progress along with a jumprope uniform shirt waiting to be cut out and the bag of chips that go with everything.

More really good crap. Just look at it all! It's AWESOME.

Do ya like my Christmas lights. They may not offer up the best light but they sure do add to the charater of the place.

Yes, I should probably be ashamed of myself for having a disaster area as my treasured work zone but don't. I mean, LOOK AT IT ALL, it is a breeding ground for CREATIVITY!!!!!

The new Gig

Guess What?

I'm a designer.

Finally after three attempts.

I start Feburary 1st at DigitalScrapbookPlace.

Yeah!!!!!