Dreams Really DO Come True

I've been a member over at http://www.twopeasinabucket.com for quite some time. I post a lot but I also lurk a lot. I love to look at the gallery and get inspiration. The talent on the board is amazing! Certain Peas consistently stand out in my mind, April Mensik and Cynthia Roybal are two of my favorites. Don't tell them but I "scraplift" a lot of their work.

Last year, I noticed on a post of April's that she now had a blog. Being an avid blog reader I clicked on the link in her signature line that went to her blog. I immediately bookmarked her, because I'd stalked her layouts in the gallery for quite some time and I wanted to learn more about her. Blogs are a great way of doing just that!

Last Spring April was in the final stretch of school and preparing her portfolios for graduation. She was stressed so I decided to email her a daily thought, phrase or reflection. I'd been in her shoes and I knew what she was going through and wanted to help her get by. She graduated with flying colors and we became friends and as they say the rest is history.

Less than a year after graduation, today, April made a dream of hers come true. She opened her own business. http://www.maggiemaestamps.com/ April is one of the strongest people I know. She's had to overcome lots of personal obstacles and adversity in her life. I don't care to go into the details here, but let me say, this woman is flat out amazing! She gets knocked down and dusts herself off and gets back up with her chest out and chin up. All that, talent, drive, determination and always there for her friends. She inspires me. If she can make her dream come true, I can get off my whinny ass and do it too.

Wanna know the really cool part? She believe in me too. She has graciously asked me to be a part of her design team. Me! She's got enough talent to do all the page samples herself. Instead of gathering all the thunder herself, she's decided to surround herself with amazingly talented women to plug her company and work designing page samples to showcase her stamps..... and and and I'm a part of that! I'm humbled. I hope I never let her down. She's entrusted me with a part of her dream.

Sweets, here's to making all your dreams come true, long nights of more IMs, silly questions and quotations and frenzied calls of "What do I do?". I'm cheering you on, praying that God guides you and wishing you all the best of luck. Love you babe!