It's all about the details

Well, I did it again. I created a whole slew of classes that are way more complicated than I originally intended for them to be. Conveniently, I had this "epiphany" last night, less than 12 hours before I was set to teach the first class.

I got to the classroom an hour early, determined to somehow make up for my overly ambitious class-creating by making sure everything was perfectly in line. And it was. For the first class...

In the end, everything turned out okay. In fact, it was better than okay. Verging on awesome.

Partly because I had 60 amazing (AMAZING!) students who appreciated all the stupidly complex details I put into the projects and executed them to a tee! And also because I had two freaking amazing (volunteer) assistants who rocked my world, working their butts off to help every single student get every single one of those crazy details into their project. Thank you Barb and Judy!

Today's experience reinforced one central point: I love teaching. I really, really love it. It fills me up with all kinds of happy.

So there will be more teaching, and more projects that are probably more ambitious than they should be. But that's just who I am. I don't do simple.

And hopefully -- fingers crossed -- I will see some familiar faces in future classes. In addition to Stitch Craft Create in Charlotte, I'm working on a few opportunities to teach in the DFW area.

Stay tuned...I will be posting future classes here and on my Facebook page.

In the meantime, now that I'm done making kits for my classes (did I mention they were crazy complicated?), maybe I'll have some time to post some actual work on this blog. We can only hope.

OMG, I'm a blogger! (again)

Yes, it's that time again. Time for Robyn to start a new blog that she will try desperately to maintain. But this time, I actually have a passion for what I'm blogging about. I'm back in the scrapbooking groove or, if you want to take the negative point of view, I've fallen off the wagon and am back to my old addiction. Let's not be negative, though. This is a good thing...I'm preserving memories for future generations. My children will thank me someday, which is a happy thought considering they pretty much always think I'm "mean" these days.

Since this is a scrapbooking blog, I guess I should post some photos of layouts, huh? Ok, well, as you can see, I'm totally on top of this. I used a photo that Jackie Reitz took of us last October and we loved it enough to use it on our Christmas cards. I did the unthinkable and used the backside of some really beautiful October Afternoon paper (note to self: buy that sheet again and use the FRONT SIDE), but I love the way it turned out. Sort of monochromatic, with a pop of red.