Monday, January 30, 2006

exciting times...

The buzz is all around - there is electricity in the air and adrenaline pulsing through veins. CHA begins and a bounty of new scrapbooking products is about to unleash itself upon the masses. For the average scrapper or hobbiest, it is exciting - for they can stand back and be entertained. Look at the broad selection of stuff; innovative products that make our pages better and better, colors, textures, shapes, sizes. Manufacturers have a feverish frenzy of a few days. They must encourage retailers to buy and come back for more...often! For the designer, it is both nerve racking and exhilarating. Choose me, choose me, buy my designs, sell them in your store.
This is where I fall, I design the scrapbooking line called Simple Sweet from All My Memories. Will scrappers like it? Will they want it? I hope so! I am especially excited for my new border papers, morsels, and page tabs.
This layout shows my new Milkshake line with border paper, alpha dots, and Page Tabs - this is a designer class I am teaching at the All My Memories retail store.

Saturday, January 28, 2006

do you realize?




So, I've decided to start a blog...call it peer pressure, call it curiousity, call it a need for organization. It seems easier for me to collect my thoughts when I write them down, and here, I can keep them, organize them, learn by them, and use them later on. I'll most likely get a good laugh!

Why "do you realize?" for my blog name? Aside from it being one of my all time favorite songs by one of my all time favorite bands (The Flaming Lips), it is the perfect backdrop for a bigger picture. Do you realize - there will always be something more to learn, something more to experience, something more to share? Life just keeps going.

Here I go, trying out this new thing. It's gonna be fun!

joey