Memories Are A Powerful Thing...The Vintage Toy Box

Maybe it's a song,  a simple phrase, an image or even food that you hear, see or smell...and it instantly transports you back through time to that pure moment of bliss when you first experienced it.

For me, it's many things...

For A Great Cause...

On Thursday, July 19th...I received an interesting email.

Here it is...

Hi, Lyann.  

My name is Mary Beth Gibson, and I am the Executive Director of a non-profit organization in the U.S. that supports young women with breast cancer.  You can visit our website at www.beyondboobs.org to learn more, if you want. 

 

Anyway, we are in the process of creating our sixth calendar of young breast cancer survivors, and the theme this year is an artistic one. 

Our graphic designer loves the palette you designed for your blog and really wants to use it in our calendar.  We print 10,000 copies of the calendar, and it is fundraiser for us. 

We would be very honored if you granted us permission to use the palette.  

I should let you know that despite what the name of our organization may suggest, our calendar is very tasteful.  There is no nudity or suggested nudity.

 

I eagerly await your response.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thank you for considering our request.

 

MB

 

P.S.  I visited Nova Scotia the year prior to my breast cancer diagnosis.  I LOVED IT!!!!

Well, I felt extremely honored...I was like, WOW!

Naturally, I called my husband at work to tell him.  

He said, "Wow! You should email her back and say YES right away!"

I started to laugh, and said,  "I already did!"

For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a commercial artist...and this request, not only is it a great cause...it's awesome that they saw MY GRAPHIC and thought it was good enough to use in the Calendar to Live By.

I have recently discovered something new!

I mentioned in an earlier post that my husband is taking a couple of computer courses. 

 A part of his work will require that he use  
Adobe Photoshop. 

Being the kind man that he is, when Trevor was installing the program on his computer,  he also installed it on mine!

At first I was like, "Yeah, I doubt I'll ever even open that program...It seems so complicated!"

Should I? or Shouldn't I?

For a long time now, I have debated over getting business cards made.

Should I?    
OR    
Shouldn't I?

I could see the marketing benefits, however, I chose NOT to investigate any further at this time...

just assuming that I wouldn't be able to customize the design to my specifications and I was afraid that the price would be too high.

So, I just let it go.

Then a couple weeks ago, I mentioned to my friend Gloria that I was thinking about getting some business cards made.

I told her that I wanted to be able to design them myself and she told me about Vistaprint...well, I was HOOKED!

"How do I love thee Vistaprint?  Let me count the ways...

Four to be exact!!!!

All Screened In

Have you ever wondered what to do with an old screen door after it has served it's original purpose?

Okay then,...I guess it's just me!

I suppose their are worse things I could wonder about...Ha ha ha!

Here is a bit of background information to explain...

Last week, my husband started a course at the local college.

He decided that he "needed" a brand new computer with the capability to handle the huge programs of today...we hadn't purchased a new computer since 2005, so it was definitely time.

Since I am definitely NOT a computer geek, I am at a complete loss to explain it's AWESOME technological qualities...My husband however, could go on for hours about it's hard drive capabilities, memory capacity...blah, blah, blah....

I'm pretty much computer illiterate, or maybe it's computer deficit syndrome...when I hear people talking about them for too long, I can't help it, it just sounds like gibberish! 

I'll just stick to things like...

"Wow, it looks great!"  or "Gee, it's so quiet!"

I'm just glad that Trevor loves it... he understands all the technical stuff, so that's what matters.