After Christmas

My Christmas was amazing this year. I was able to spend time with family and friends. We watched a marathon of Christmas Movies and then we played games. I think one of my new favorite traditions with my mom and aunt at christmas is having a glass of wine while we finish wrapping the presents while watching White Christmas.  I know I have been trying to get away from just blog posts that update where I am and what I've been up to but I'm so excited about this I want to share. I was inspired over this Christmas. I had time to look around and check different things out and I think I came up with my first DIY Idea for this blog. I hope this is the first in a long list of many ideas for DIY.

As for Christmas some of my favorite gifts to give this year were the gifts I made. My dad who is an endless source of inspiration for me graduated with his college degree in 2011. I was lucky enough to take the trip to North Dakota for his graduation. I took lots of pictures while we were there and for Christmas I put it together in a scrapbook so he would always have the memories to look back on. 

The other gift I put together was for my sister. I had a little help from Blurb with this gift. My sister gave birth to my niece on October 17th 2011. I was lucky enough to spend most of her first month with her and was able to gather a great number of pictures. I put together for my sister a book of all Lilly's pictures from her first month. She was very touched by this gift. 

Here is  my niece at one month with her Mommy's baby picture on the left. I am so lucky to have such a great family and to make so many wonderful memories with them. And look two posts in one month. I hope this trend keeps on going!

Have a happy NEW YEAR!!!

Thank you!

     This last week has been very exciting for me. I've made some crucial decisions for my future and am  well on my way to implementing these decisions. I also spent some time this week sitting down with a Graphic Designer and we talked about things I should be doing. This was very encouraging because I'm doing a lot of the things he suggested already. I also went to a meeting of TAGA the Technical Association of Graphic Arts and am looking forward to going back for a second week!
     Things seem to be falling into place and it feels GREAT! I want to take a moment to thank all my family and friends who have been a great support for me in taking these first steps. I cannot fail with such a strong support network to back me up! I cannot wait till I have my own copy of the adobe software and can spend most of my free time working on projects. But for this coming week I am planning on focusing most of my time and effort to learning all I can about CSS and website design. I've started laying out a design for my personal portfolio but it is far from ready and is very basic.
      Wish me luck on my next week of adventures! I'm looking forward to sitting in a coffee shop somewhere working on my designs and sipping coffee!