I'm kinda liking this taking chances stuff...

As if all this Silver Bella news weren't exciting enough, I just found out I'm the July featured "guest designer" on the Alpha Stamps website! I feel like this year has been too good to be true for me....too many dreams are being fulfilled. Pinch me! Am I awake?

Fairytale Soaps

Anyway, last fall I was cruising around blogland and happened upon an application to become part of their design team...I've got no stars in my eyes but I thought to myself "why not try!" Something in the past I probably never would have done but I'm feeling a bit more "wild and crazy" lately. So I closed my eyes and pushed the "send" button.

Well, so many talented artists applied that I couldn't feel even a teensy bit bad to find out that I did not make one of the coveted spots, but I did get a consolation prize - an email asking if I would be interested in taking one of the monthly guest designer spots. Even as I remember reading that email my heart is beating a bit faster!!! Yes! Yes! Of course!!!! I could hardly believe it but it was true - and now you can visit the Alpha Stamps fabulous website and browse the unbelievable selection of all things artsy, and then take a little peak at what I've made with the supplies Alpha Stamps sent to me!

Sleeping Beauty pendant

I'll admit up front my nerves took a beating. I have made a pact with myself to always do my best to come up with something original...but that is becoming so much harder to do with the influx of ideas coming into my brain from the web, flickr, all the delicious blogs I read, and artists that I adore! So I feel a bit like I fell back on some tried and true forms of art. My ego wanted to really WOW the gals at Alpha Stamps, but I was mostly satisfied with the outcome...

So there...for now...a little bit of reveling...not necessarily because my art is "published", but because I took the chance...I took a plunge I'm not used to taking. And there are more to come...