MY DAD WOULD ROLL OVER IN HIS GRAVE IF HE SAW...

what a mess I have made of his slides! Over the past five months I have gone through 12 boxes of slides three times. The first time I had a system, the second time I think I had a different system, and the third time there was no system...which leaves me with a huge mess! All of the slides that I have pulled out to have scanned are now thrown in manila envelopes to be refiled at some point. I don't want to put them away now because if a company is interested in them, they want the original slide so there's no point in filing them. However, my brother informed me the other day that he and my dad spent several DAYS organizing them in chronological order and labeling the boxes. I did not, obviously, mention to my brother the state the slides are now in and I don't have to worry about him finding out because, even though he follows this blog, I know he doesn't read it :)

PAPYRUS IS INTERESTED IN MY CARDS!

Yes!!!!!!!! I received an email from them the other day that said they thought my family photos were wonderful and that they think there's an opportunity to work with me!

AMERICAN GREETINGS IS REVIEWING MY CARDS...

the week of October 19th in their Idea Submission Team meeting!!!! I'm desperately attempting to create a PowerPoint presentation (definitely NOT my forte) to send to them along with my other materials. Just wanted to pass this on and now I have to get back to work!

I ADMIT IT--I'M TECHNICALLY CHALLENGED, O.K.?

I apologize in advance to all the companies I am submitting my "artwork" to this week and I sincerely hope I don't become the laughingstock of the greeting card publishing world. Unfortunately, a lot of the greeting card companies actually want you to submit your artwork in the form of an actual greeting card (the sheer nerve of them) and I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THIS! So here's what I do...I print out the front of the card and I print out the inside text and then I fold them in half to look like a greeting card. Then I put a paper clip around them to make sure they stay together so that the inside text of one card doesn't accidentally get attached to the picture on another card. After that I write my name, address and phone number on the back of the "card" and now that I'm actually thinking about this, I probably should have used a fake name :) All I can say is that I hope that after whoever opens my package stops laughing, they will see the "vision" that I have and realize that all they have to do is have someone "fix it," so to speak. Yep, I hope they realize that it's not a huge deal...they just need to get the card to actually look like a card :)