My blog is officially 6 years old! To celebrate, I’m having a giveaway. Who wants a brand new Silhouette Mint™ machine for making custom stamps? Read on…
Year 6 Recap
This past year turned out completely different than I thought it would. I knew I would be blogging again for Silhouette America on their design team, which really fills my creative need. (I have a hard time justifying a lot of crafting time without a deadline.)
I thought I would put a lot more video lessons on my blog, but instead I have been given the opportunity to attend conferences and teach in live classrooms again with 30-75 students at a time! I taught several classes at April’s All Things Silhouette Conference in Peachtree City, GA, and am headed back in less than a month to teach several more at the November All Things Silhouette Conference. I love it!
The other exciting event for me this past year was my trip to Hawaii for Silhouette Summit. I’m still sitting on the edge of my seat, waiting for the new products they announced there to actually become available in stores, but I am the proud owner of a new CAMEO 3. It works wonderfully just like all my previous CAMEO machines. (I’m just waiting also for the new cloud Studio software to play nicely with me and my huge design library.)
Big Dreams
As always, I have big plans for the next year. I want to try and get more consistent small content up on my blog so my posts become more regular. I think I use Instagram as my fallback to avoid writing long blog posts, but I think my blog has suffered because of it.
I don’t know why I think I always need extremely informative, detailed tutorials with every post. I do have several of those mostly written and close to publication; I just need to finish them off. It’s that “Finding Time To Create” thing that gets me every time. Wife and mom duties, along with a part-time job, always bump blogging down on the priorities list.
My teen son has been telling me all his suggestions about my social media plan, and will be taking a web design course next semester, so maybe I’ll
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