Opening Doors

To begin, apparently non-Blogger members were not able to comment. I was unaware that I had that enabled but it has bene removed. Feel the liberation! Thanks, Katie, for letting me know.

In bigger news, I am suddenly finding myself commissioned to do the design work for which I have been spending all of this time studying and sketching and fretting about. I must say that I was initially very intimidated by the idea that I am now going to be imprinting my grown-up version of coloring books into people's living spaces. And I have to accept that they are going to like and not like what I design... though I think I accepted that when I started realizing that what I want to design is very different from what I see everywhere.
And though my gut reaction was to say, "I am not done with school yet. I can't do this!" I realized that so many of the strings tied to my fingers that I could never find the end of were at last braided into the rope that is harnessing this beast now before me. All I have to do is take control...