Friday Favorites

When life gets too overwhelming and I start to feel down, I try to practice gratitude to stay positive. So, I make myself focus on the good things that happened in the past week that made me smile.

• Had a nice lunch with children's illustrator and Twitter buddy Wendy Martin. We've been trying to hook up for a while and life kept getting in the way. We did wait for each other for at least 20 minutes in different parts of the place we were meeting though!
• Met some great peeps at a Biznik meetup. Got some great encouragement and advice from another very nice graphic designer in the area.
• Got my first article published on the Biznik site – and it's featured on the home page today!
• Got another great testimonial from a happy client!
• Thought like an author and got a book idea for PiBoIdMo from an unpleasant situation.

What good things happened to you this week?

Friday Favorites

Things that made me smile this week.

1. Having a very happy client! Before I helped her, she was stuck and couldn't move forward with her business because she didn't feel good with the logo and the look of the materials. I got her branding the way she liked it. I love that I helped her feel good about her business and got her excited about it again!
   
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   This little diva dancer on Ellen. So cute!
   
3. Frosty the Gourdman comic by Dani and Nicole Jones. I finally got around to reading this - it is so cute. Dani is one of my illustration heros - I'm SO not worthy!
   
   
4. Beautiful weather! I love having the windows open and seeing all the trees changing colors.
   
5. Skype. I know I'm a little behind but I just signed up with Skype and had a nice, FREE conversation with one of my clients who is in Canada (yeah, I'm international now-gotta love Twitter!!)

What made you smile this week?