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I AM GETTING READY TO SIGN MY FIRST CONTRACT!!!

Pretty cool, huh? It kind of makes everything seem so official, if you know what I mean. It's exciting and it's sad in a way because I wish my dad was around to see his picture being professionally published on a greeting card. He would have loved the technology today, too. I can just imagine him sitting there with all his slides and spending hours and hours tweaking them with Photoshop.

I have spent the past week submitting the photos to various greeting card publishers and received the fastest rejection ever today. Within 30 minutes there was an email in my inbox but I don't feel too badly because they said they weren't accepting ANY submissions. I have been procrastinating creating a Facebook account but I think it's time...then on to Twitter which I hope I NEVER have to do! I am still hoping for one of the two major companies to come through with an exclusive so that I won't have to Twitter. Why can't we do business the old-fashioned way like the image I am going to post in the next blog???

IT ONLY TOOK ME A DAY AND A HALF TO...

create a video, add music, and upload it to Youtube, which you can hopefully see here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn7xVMuiUXc

This week seems to have flown by. I have been getting the nicest rejection letters and emails from companies. I'm serious, if you're going to get rejected it is much better to be rejected nicely :)

On a side note, I thought it was interesting to note on my HS transcript that I only scored in the 25th percentile in clerical on an aptitude test. I thought this was kind of funny considering I have spent my entire professional career as an executive assistant :) I only scored in the 23rd percentile for artistic which is what I consider what I am doing now. So there you go...that proves that those tests don't mean a darn thing! However, it also said that I only scored in the 18th percentile for "persuasive" and that part might be true considering I haven't sold any cards yet :) (Just so you know I wasn't totally illiterate, I scored a 96% in literary and 85% in verbal!)

Back to the drawing board...

IS THIS A REJECTION OR ACCEPTANCE?

I got an email today from a company that I had submitted my greeting cards to and it states that they have reviewed my materials and yes, this is the style they are seeking for their card lines. However, they did not choose any of the images/cards I had submitted at this time but I could feel free to submit more in the future. What the heck does this mean? It's like saying this is KIND OF what we're looking for but NOT EXACTLY what we're looking for :) Anyway, I need to go mail the check.

THIS IS WHAT I MISS ABOUT THE MIDWEST...

Totally off-topic from the greeting cards, I am applying for a full-time position at a local community college and I needed to get a copy of, get this, my HIGH SCHOOL transcripts to submit with my resume. So I call up good old Grosse Pointe South High School and the woman in the records department tells me that there is a cost of $2 to FAX them to me. I'm thinking that I am going to have to use Paypal or my debit card or some form of IMMEDIATE payment but, no, she says to just mail them a check for the $2. And that's what I miss the most about the midwest...the character, values, and morals that seem to be missing out here in California. They actually TRUST me to send them the check. So I am off to the post office to mail them the $2 check, after I say this: (go to next post)

I LICENSED MY FIRST CARD THIS MORNING!!!!!!!!!

Believe it or not, I actually received a call this morning from a company in Michigan (which I still consider my home state even though I haven't lived there since 1973) who wanted to license one of my cards...how exciting is that? I feel like it's somewhat of a breakthrough after all my hard work so it gave me a little boost to keep moving forward and not get discouraged. Thanks!

4 OF MY GREETING CARDS CAN BE VIEWED...

Here:


http://sites.google.com/site/prittiehartpress/