Monthly Archives: July 2012

Pure craziness…

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This summer has been pure craziness for me.

Literally…
-I flooded my sister’s basement
-Had to change the fan in my car
-Now I have to change the AC compressor
-I lost my memory card before heading on our cadet canoe trip which I was suppose to photograph
-I lost my graduation ring that I have worn everyday for 8 years
-my internet stopped working
-and then to top it all off my iphone broke

The iphone breaking was my breaking point. This is how it went down. I was at my safety net job with my iphone just sitting on my desk when this happened:
I googled this right away and the solution was to turn off the phone and hope it wouldn’t come back. Now you have to understand that my iphone had a disabled power button that has been essentially useless. Short story after the restore my iphone would no longer recognize the sin. At that moment that moment of weakness I wrote a desperate email to my sister here are some funny exerts:

“my iphone decided to go to heaven I think it deserves to go to hell. Anyway so if I don’t text you back or I don’t instagram I didn’t die. My iphone died. We should have a funeral. Oh wait I have no family they all abandoned me for the summer. And since they left me I also caused a flood in my sister’s house oh and I lost my grad ring yeah my grad ring I can’t find it anywhere I usually don’t take it off but it’s so freakin’ hot I took it off cause my fingers were like sausages and now I can’t find it which breaks my heart since I have worn it every day except 18 days in China for 8 years!!! Plus you gave it to me. So I am hoping with your return that my bad luck streak will end and that the world will start spinning in the right direction again.
Hope you are having an amazing time so that this weird bad luck streak is worth it.”

So as you can see I was the end of my rope. Well the next day my sister and Justin did the best thing ever. I was working at my home office it was a super productive day when someone rang the doorbell. There was Mrs. Wheeler holding this bouquet.
How awesome is that? Even though they are on the US west coast they took the time to set this up for me. It really made me smile and laugh. I am so lucky to have such an awesome sister and so lucky that she married Justin he’s the best brother in law I could ever imagine. Thanks guys.

As for the summer even though all this has happened it’s been pretty awesome and I will make sure to share some of the funner things as well as some of the work that has been keeping me busy.

Hope your summer is treating you well
Nancy

SIDE NOTE: I finally found a temporary replacement for my iphone. Thanks Joey.

Safety net

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Did you know I have a safety net? My safety net is a job. A job that others would consider a great job. You know, with great pay, great benefits and my mom would argue a pension too.

But when I am at work I feel claustrophobic, anxious and sad. When I think about work I feel the same. Luckily I only have to work 25 hours a week but those hours feel like they never end.

The plan is to eventually leave that safety net and leap but it’s so scary. I have been planning to do this for years and I don’t know if I will ever have the guts to do it.

The good news is business is going well. I have loads of projects lined up and I have made more this year than I did all of last year that’s good right?

I wonder what it will take for me to leap. Maybe I need a push. Sometimes it feels like people around me don’t understand why I would want to do something so crazy. Is it really crazy?

I’m sure you have noticed my business is growing into many different things. Wedding invitation designer, photographer, graphic designer, photo editor, web designer and even some event design it has been such an interesting ride and I love the variety and growth. There is so much I still want to learn and do.

I’m going to keep working hard and being too busy for a while and hopefully someday I will be free falling and who knows maybe I’ll fly.

It all feels like I did in the picture below in Chicago’s Willis Tower so scary but yet I felt so alive and happy that I pushed through the fear and stood on the glass floor.

Have any of you taken the leap? Or is something holding you back too?
I’ll post more on our trip to Chicago later.

Nancy

Summer Jazz nights

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This Wednesday Schnitzels is starting their summer Jazz nights. I had the pleasure of designing their posters and facebook cover images for these events that will be happening every Wednesday in July and August. Here is what we came up with.


Sounds like something fun and different to do. And people always complain there is nothing to do in this town. If you take a good look around there are plenty of interesting things going on. Go check it out sounds like it will be a good time.

Nancy
Your Cornwall Graphic Designer