It has been a crazy few weeks! The fam and I have been back from Walt Disney World for a week-and-a-half now, after spending almost two weeks in the Happiest Place on Earth! The Disney Resort was as amazing as always, the food was divine (did the International Food & Wine Festival- for the first time- yum), the resort hotel we stayed in (Animal Kingdom Lodge) was fabulous. So many photos......just a crazy amount since I took TWO cameras this time. My regular Canon, and my new Sony Cybershot that shoots video as well as regular digital photos AND is waterproof for those underwater and wet ride shots. Gotta love that!
Anywho, the DAY BEFORE we left, what should appear on my doorstep but a
box containing a dozen of these:
CardMaker's Hand-Lettering Workbook
Yup, my friends, that right there is my long-awaited book. Heeeee!
So glad to finally see the real thing in print! All those months of blood, sweat and tears (okay, no blood and only a little bit of sweat right before final deadline). Elbow, wrist and shoulder cramps, blisters on my palms from my fingernails digging in as I held a no.2 pencil in a death grip for hours on end. Lots....and LOTS of Diet Dr.Pepper. But it is done, done, done and ready to ship around the world (what a humbling thought).
So to celebrate...I am having a give-a-way!
Leave a comment (preferrably nice) right here on the ol' blog for a chance to win your own copy signed by yours truly. Unfortunately, I can only ship to the continental US, but if you are international and want your own copy, you can purchase it here.
Thanks to everyone who encouraged me along the way, and especially my friend Susan Stringfellow- always a voice of reason when I wanted to shove one of those pencils right through my eye. Tanya Fox, my editor and ever-patient friend who put up with ALOT of dilly-dallying on my end, and to my dear husband, Andy, who had to make dinner countless times cuz I was too busy to cook, and who was the daily deliverer of my Diet Dr.Pepper.
later,
nancy
