It's a new year! 2009

It seems like forever since I've entered anything on here.

Lots of changes in my life this past year. I can now said that I've actually been thru a huricane (Ike), I've been laid off at my job and have changed my carreer after 24 years. Well, sort of changed my carreer. I am now working at a staffing agency for manufacturers (ResourceMFG). I really like it and have some new skills now, including payroll. But I am still working as a insurance agent. When my former job ended I contacted my old boss, Stephanie Branham. She suggested that we work together on the individual health products side of the business.

I have also attended my first show with TAODA (Texas Asso of Orginal Doll Artists) just before Christmas. It was a very good experience and one that I will follow up with in the future. This reminds me that I need to contact another chairperson that is in charge of Celebrations @ 2nd Baptist Church here in Katy. This is a juried show and very hard to get in to, so I'd better do that tomorrow!

I am now working 6 days a week and have no empty time to do anything. Hopefully that will change here within the next month or so and I can start making dolls again.

Well, I guess I had better start making dolls again, since I have one due in April for one of the Houston Quilt Festival sponsors for our doll club, The Material Girls. Just have to get the ol' brain working again in the imagination department. Forget those numbers for awhile and come up with a design for a new doll.

I also met a good friend of mine at Old Town Spring several weeks ago. Her mother from Romainia was out for Christmas and she wanted me to meet her. We had a really good time., but then I always have a good time when I met up with Cristiana. Her mother, Neita, is in her own right an Artist, though her skills are a bit different than mine. She is in the top 100 artists in Romania and has had a hand in lots of different types of art from theater to puppets to sculpture. She was so excited to actually see one of my dolls up close and absolutly speachless whe I gave her one of my mermaids for a Christmas present. It was a very emotional moment and I was glad I chose to present the gift before we went into lunch. Between the tears and the squeals we would have difinitely made a scene at the resturant. She has now left to go back home to Romania and will be missed but not forgotten.

Now I have a new doll to make using the two sand casted autumn leaves that Neita and Cristiana gave me while in Old Town Spring. I already have an idea in mind so I just have to get busy. One of them will be given back to Cristiana and the other I will keep as a rememberance of that special day. I will difenitely like to meet her mother again when she comes back out to Texas next year at Christmas time.

Well, that about wraps up my year and has me looking forward to spring and my friend, Robin's vacation out here in May. Don't know what we are going to do, but I'm sure it will be fun and full of running around Houston!