serendipity

more CHA peeks...

Here's a few more peeks at the Little Boy Blue collection, including a couple of patriotic cards with the line.

now back to packing!! if you're going to CHA have a great time!

CHA peeks!!

take a look at the Melissa Frances blog for more peeks today and a giveaway!!! and there'll be more peeks to come throughout the week.
Melissa Frances Blog

here's a peek at the new Little Boy Blue collection that will be released this week at CHA. it's such a fun boy line with blues, reds, ivory and a bit of sagey green. it's also perfect for 4th of july/patritic pages.

more peeks tomorrow...

a sad goodbye...

so...a little crazy here. I'm realizing that's it's harder to get anything done in the summer when I actually have a lot more time. so I've neglected this poor blog again. anyway, lots of pictures to share...grace's special 7 year portraits are done and I made her an almost 9 minute slideshow movie with close to 100 shots, all set to 3 songs of her choice. I made the slides in 8 1/2 x 11 size so I can get them printed in a coffee table book for her, because really she's only going to show the movie to like 3 people. so I need to post some of our third and final session here soon.

we're back in town today from a weekend visit to my mom's, which is about a 4 hour drive. and that is our only vacation this summer. unless you'd count CHA this week, which I don't. it's fun, but really not a vacation. and when I get home next Monday night, I'll have to prep for a photo session on Tuesday morning and get school supplies and all that because grace starts school the following monday. for now, I have 2 days to get through my very long to do list before I leave for chicago. and I'm dying to share some Melissa Frances sneak peeks so I will as soon as I have the ok!

my big lesson for this summer has been that I needed to make some big changes. I have a hard time letting things go and with real life that way it's been and the way it will be the next year, I finally realized that some of my design work had to be cut back. so I've very quietly made a few changes and left some teams that have been home to me for a long time.

one of those places I want to mention....cherryArte. I was on their design team for 2 years, from the very beginning and have never been anything but thrilled to work for them. it was truly an honor and it was very very hard to say goodbye to such a wonderful company and such fun products. so in honor of CA, I created a little album to the right with all of my work for CA that I'll leave up for a while. and I wanted to share here some of my absolute favorites. (thank you Lu!! it's been a wonderful 2 years!)