Hello friends!
I have been promoting "big news" for quite sometime...I think 8 months! wow! Tomorrow I am finally able to share this new and exciting journey with you!
But before I do, I'd like to take a moment to talk about the journey I have had getting >>here<< . I am 31 years old and live in California. After I graduated High School I joined the US Navy for 7 years. During my enlistment I was obsessed with scrapbooking. I think it's safe to say, I took "obsession" to a whole new level lol, but that's a new story :) . Photos go hand in hand with scrapbooking so naturally I learned a lot about photography which stemmed from my love of scrapbooking, and I started playing around in Adobe Photoshop Elements to edit my photos. As time passed I became very skilled in my knowledge of Photoshop and scrapbooking. Eventually I hit a fork in the road of my Navy enlistment where it was time to decide to either leave or stay another 4 years in which I chose to leave. Luckily I was hired by a scrapbooking manufacturer in California to basically do "odds and ends" around the office such as edit photos, make projects etc. However, as time past, they realized that I had more skill in the programs than what they had expected and I began doing other types of design. 5 years later I was designing their idea books, catalogs, websites, blogs, products, and I was their product photographer. I guess you could say I was a 50 trick pony hah! :D
At some point though, I think everyone gets to a time in their life where they actually open their eyes and ask themselves if this is what they want, and if this is where they want to be. For me, although I felt priveleged for the position I held, I had wild dreams of what I really wanted to be in life...but achieving this would require me to do the most risky thing of all...leave my full time job. Just saying that is still scary, even though that was a year ago.
So, when an opportunity presented itself I sat down with my husband and we laid reality on the table and luckily he supported whatever decision I made.
And that leads us to >>here<< :)
Tomorrow will be the official announcement of this new and exciting journey, and I can't wait! :) hugs to all,
Adrienne