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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Look to the right -------------> What do you see?

That's right!  I'm going to be in an upcoming blog hop and I could not be more excited!  The weekend of May 11th (Mother's Day weekend) I will be participating in Pink E's Mother's Day Blog Hop!  This will be my first hop that I'm in and you could say that I'm definitely a bit nervous.  Eeek!  I know that this hop will bring a lot of traffic to the blog which excites me and hopefully people that stop by will like what they see.  :)

The excitement doesn't stop there!  Recently a friend I met through the Cricut Message Board recently asked me to be featured on her blog!  I'm trying to work out the details of what project I will want featured on her blog so stay tuned for both of these exciting opportunities.  :)

As we all know, it is the end of April.  What that means is that school is letting out within the next few weeks and that will bring more time to craft and work on my Close To My Heart business.  A couple days ago I made the announcement that I recently became a Close To My Heart consultant.  My new Consultant kit should arrive in the mail tomorrow and I'll work on recording a video so you can see all that Close To My Heart has to offer.  Through this, I hope you fall in love with all of the CTMH products as much as I have.  If you are in the market for purchasing stamps, embellishments, ink pads, and paper (just to name a few things), I encourage you to shop through my Close To My Heart website found HERE!

Getting back on track, as we all know, it's the end of April.  That means that the students that attend the college I work at will soon be either graduating and/or moving out of the residence halls.  It just so happens that these next few weeks will be very busy for me.  I need to write 14 evaluations for the 14 Resident Assistants I supervise (due by next Tuesday), put on an end of the year Banquet for all of the members of Residence Life - which means paying attention to minor details and shopping for frames for awards and such, and go through 174 rooms to verify that students moved all of their belongings out as well as assess the room for damages so that they can be billed if necessary.  If that hasn't overwhelmed you, I'm finishing up judging a modeling competition here at the college, saying goodbye to 60% of the E-Board of the student organization I advise (I should make them a gift!), and also on duty next week which means I'm the professional staff member on call in case there are any situations that get out of hand.  Somehow, sometime, I will find time to make my Mother's Day project for the blog hop and get that ready.  :)

Like I said, in the upcoming weeks, I'll start to have more time to craft as we usually only have about 50 students on campus during the summer and they normally don't raise a ruckus.  Knock on wood.

I got an email that my printer came in so I'm going to head over and pick that up tomorrow afternoon, come back to campus to finish up the modeling competition and then open my CTMH kit and record that video.  I hope to have it edited before I go to bed tomorrow night with another blog update then.

Until then, enjoy your night/day!

Craft on,
Ian

8 comments:

  1. Ian You Rock! I can't wait to see what project you do!

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    1. Thank you! :) You do too!! It's funny because right when you commented I was on Amazon.com ordering something for the hop/my project. :) Woot!

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  2. I'm super excited! Thanks for posting I'm getting my post ready now! Woot woot!!

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    1. Woo hoo!! :) This is going to be fun! :)

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  3. I'm also excited to do the Blog Hop with you! You can do it all, just keep focused.

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    1. Thanks, Melody! Slowly I'm getting all of the pieces of my project together so I can have a great project to show off. Looking forward to seeing what you create! :)

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  4. You will do great in your blog hop! They are a lot of fun. I feel your pain, I work at a college too and Academia can be a CRAZY place at any given time but end of the year is pretty crazy for sure. Here's to keeping your head above water.

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    1. Thanks so much, Amy! :) You are so right with it being a CRAZY place. I am exhausted after writing 8 of 14 evals today (i wrote 2 yesterday) and have 4 more to write for a total of 14. Oyy. Thank you for the kind words and I hope you are able to keep your head above water as well. What part of the college do you work in?

      Also - my blog hop project came in the mail today so I'm excited to get started on that. HOPEFULLY this weekend. Time will tell...

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