Enchanted

i left work today with a sense of satisfaction. not because i had sold thousands of dollars of merchandise, but because my best friend had picked up her save the dates. save the dates that i designed and that she loved - my first real client. i can't wait to start working on her invitation & already have some ideas for what she should do. here is what the final save the date looked like. her mom wanted to include a picture of her & mike, something that i wasn't sure about - but i think it really suits dee & mike. i was glad that they wanted to go with a more modern feel, playing with all lowercase. they basically gave me free rein, and i was estatic when they really liked it.

i am also so proud of jeremy - he is going to start doing weddings on his own. i think we've both realized that there is no time like the present & we have to do what is best for ourselves at this point. being proactive about my future is both exciting & scary. it's a big step, putting myself out there like i am. but i know that something good is going to come out of it. and instead of working at a hospital (looking at brain matter everyday) and hating it, i am going to be doing something that i love. (and hopefully getting paid!) to some people what we do can just be thrown away - to us, it's creating in someone's most special moment and making it something they can look back on. whether that be in a picture or paper, these moments are the ones that they will remember. these are the moments that they have spent hours working on & coming up with. and we are just creating a piece of that for them. when you really think about it - even when most people do just throw invitations away - we are creating the memory from beginning to end. (especially when we assemble them for hours at a time!)

i have so many ideas floating up there in the brain of mine - it's time to start putting them to good use!

happy football labor day weekend. GO HAWKS! (and tigers!)