That HUGE sigh…

Mar 15, 2011

of relief you just heard came from me. I just com­pleted my sec­ond book dead­line and let me just say, it was a humdinger, but I have 45 projects com­pleted. I’m so glad this one is behind me and every­thing has either been emailed or shipped. I leave for Cincin­nati in a few weeks to pho­to­graph all the step by step pho­tos for each fea­tured tech­nique. It will be a week of pho­tograph­ing dur­ing the day and writ­ing at night but I can finally start to see the book com­ing together and can­not wait for it to hit the shelves. I do believe you all are going to love this book. I’m already in love with it.

So after a week­end of writ­ing for 20 hours start­ing Fri­day evening and end­ing Sat­ur­day then pack­ing all the sup­plies and tools needed to recre­ate each tech­nique all day Sun­day and pack­ing all the projects that go with these tech­niques yes­ter­day… well yes­ter­day, the mail­man rang the door bell and handed me a pack­age that had this gor­geous col­lar neck­lace inside. I could not believe my eyes.

You all might remem­ber me going on and on about this piece that Con­nie had dis­played in the Maya Road booth this past CHA-W. It took every ounce of con­trol I had not to have her beau­ti­ful neck­lace end up in my suit­case. Well, no more plot­ting now as I have my very own. And I love how this neck­lace came to be. Con­nie told me after teach­ing an advent class this past hol­i­day sea­son she had all these lit­tle bits and pieces left over and had to make some­thing with them. Talk about mak­ing great use of extra baubles. So next win­ter all these super cute lit­tle bits and pieces and altered Maya Road prod­ucts will reside beau­ti­fully around my neck and I will be reminded of Con­nie and her incred­i­ble kindness.

Thank you so much Con­nie. Your neck­lace will be cher­ished for­ever and envied by all.


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  • http://apeacefulplacetobe.blogspot.com Lisa

    Can­not even wait for your new book!

  • http://joannezsharpe.blogspot.com joanne sharpe

    Con­grats Lisa, what a thrill! Can’t wait to get my SECOND book from you when it’s pub­lished. We all know it’s going to be beau­ti­ful. Now BREATHE!

  • Jan

    Greet­ings Lisa,

    First of all, CONGRATS ..the book will be done soon and I LOVE the first one so much that its been on my desk for almost a year.As I have said in the past, want to do every project.
    I will anx­iously wait with every­one else for my copy. Per­haps a signed one …Oh .. I can see the big give­away now! Hint..hint. Your work is so beau­ti­ful and cre­ative.. I just know I will love it all!

    Love the neck­lace as well and the cup­cakes have offi­cially given me a sweet tooth..off to get the Girl Scout cookies!

    Thanks for shar­ing your cre­ativ­ity and ener­gies with us all,

    Jan­ice

  • Aunt Brenda

    How about a photo of you wear­ing the neck­lace? Would love that!

  • http://www.kattoys.blogspot.com kat

    Yeah– can’t wait for the next book — your first book has given me lots of inspi­ra­tion — hope­fully the new one will be avail­able … maybe by Christmas?

    Love that neck­lace — what a great way to use lots of hol­i­day treasures!

  • patti

    Can’t wait for the new book to arrive. I love the first one very much.

  • Linda Hahn

    Con­grat­u­la­tions, Lisa, on com­plet­ing your new book!! Can’t wait to get a copy of it!! I loved your first one, so I know this one will be great as well!!
    Also, you are one lucky girl for get­ting that gor­geous neck­lace!! Look for­ward to see you wear­ing it in Decem­ber!!
    See you @ Paper Cow­girls in June!!