“Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.” – author unknown

Happy Thanksgiving!

For the last two months I’ve been working overtime offering my Holiday Helper to demonstrators to send to their customers.  It’s a labor of love as I enjoy working with the demonstrator designers and I like making my customer look good. This year I’ve really put my heart and soul and a lot of hours into the campaign.  Today, I received two emails that truthfully almost had me in tears.

I’m getting ready to for my Fall Mastermind Conference next week in Phoenix AZ.   It’s still hot there from what I understand.  I’ve been working a lot of long nights on the Holiday Helper, knowing that I’ll be gone learning new business-marketing principals and meeting old and new friends along the way. I’ve been planning this retreat for a l-o-n-g time. It’s a pretty intense three days so I made sure to get some R&R in as well. I get one day in particular all to myself.

My weekly to-do list has still a lot of to-dos. Full day of fun stuff – Amy and I are finishing up on the Technique Club Volume 4.  And we have a great Summer Mini project for May Class in a Flash.  I’m also finishing up on a customer newsletter for a close associate so it’s all good stuff.  Gotta run!

Have you caught spring fever yet? We’ve sure have and we’re not sure if it’s from working on spring themed projects or the weather! Debbie has been playing peek-a-boo with the sun in Portland and Amy’s been teased with warm days followed by snow in Denver. Whatever the cause, we are both ready for spring. Guess we’ll just start celebrating spring now, whether or not the calendar and the weather say it’s time.

This morning was a bit unusual.  I was walking down the dock at 5am to leave and there was a raccoon in my path.  He looked at me; I looked at him – neither of us moved.  Finally, I told him “one of us has to move”.  Nothing.  So being the daring person I am I moved forward a step.  Nothing.  Throwing all caution to the wind, I proceeded to walk towards him in a game of dare until finally he jumped into the water.  YES! I am the master of the docks I exclaimed.

Irish saying  “A wish that every day for you will be happy from the start and may you always have good luck and a song within your heart.”

I’ll be honest, I’ve avoided doing workshops. Even though I know Stampin’ Up! has put a focus (and rightful so) on workshops, I just couldn’t bring myself to do them. Then I saw how Heather Summers is doing her workshops at convention.  I was blown away by the caliber of her presentation. In fact, I wanted to go to host a workshop with her so that is saying something isn’t it?  This year I vow to start workshops again but I want to make them fun for me and my audience.  Today I plan to start planning my workshops for 2011, using Heather’s excellent model.  Yes, I will agree that it is a lot of work, but I have to think it is worth it for me and my guests.  This was the top #1 item I took away from convention, so I owe it to myself to give it a try.

As demonstrators we all have a passion for sharing and helping our fellow demonstrators.  Here are a few options my friend, Heather Wright-Porto, posted recently.   Visit Heather’s Blog for more details.

We hope that your holidays are merry and bright!
Thank you for your business and your support.

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