Up and Coming

Winter hibernation is over, and I’m deep into spring celebration mode (birthdays, weddings, anniversaries!). But I wanted to take a few minutes to update you all on some upcoming activities.

Planned Parenthood has again asked me to be an official patient spokesperson. I’m so honored! This time, I’m headed down to the city for three days of media training, photo and video shoots, and hanging out with my fellow spokespeople. I cannot wait to meet them! I’m also intensely curious to see what it’s like on the other side of media training.

I had a session with a voice trainer once. I had been regularly presenting and doing voice-overs for work so I went into it with a sort of “this will be cute and mildly interesting” mentality. But the coach blew my mind. After listening to me speak for a minute, she was able to tell me that I played a woodwind instrument. My breathing gives me away! Ever since then, I’ve been wanting to talk with communications experts of all kinds, so I can geek out.

So that should be fun. I’ll be blogging about the experience here, so stay tuned for that.

On the hobby side, the hubby and I have a trip planned to the garment district to go fabric shopping. So I’ve been spamming my Pinterest board with lots of sewing tutorials and inspirational pieces. I’ll be sure to share lots of lovely pictures of fabric too.

I’ve also been dabbling with designing fabric patterns of my own. I’m very much a novice, so be gentle! I have these “Zing of Spring” fabrics that are still a work in progress (and thus not for sale yet). One or more of them will probably end up as a maxi dress at some point though.

But I also have these “Planet Polka” designs that I made for the kiddo. Pluto did not make the cut. Sorry Pluto.

The designs can also be purchased as wrapping paper, wallpaper, or decals. What a fun website! If you haven’t checked out Spoonflower.com, do that right now.

That’s it for now. I have some writing projects underway, but nothing to share about those yet. But I think it’s going to be a great spring and summer!