goodbye for now… well, not from my brand new blog and not from digiscrapping but from my shop at Digiridoo Scraps.  DRS has been my scrap home for the past year and half.  First as a hangout, then I did the marketing/ads and finally as a junior designer in the mentor program they had for staff.

When I first found digital scrapping, I was a brand new stay at home mom who turned to digi when I had to regretfully pack up my scrap garage to move to a new house we were buying.  We ended up staying with my In-Laws for 3 weeks while escrow closed.  Now for a scrap addicted gal, this was heart breaking!  But I had recently discovered some amazing blogs and a whole world of digital when I was looking online to tutorials on how to make my own papers for the crafts I sold on Etsy.  So I spent my torturous 3 weeks blog hopping and falling in a deep addiction of freebies!  Yep… You know what I’m talking about, huh?  Now mind you, I didnt even know how to use Photoshop but that sure didnt stop me from collecting all these free goodies.

By the 2nd week, I created my own blog and http://iamsimplysarah.blogspot.com was born.  I quickly learned how to digi scrap on Photoshop 7 and was instantly addicted.  I started attending speed scraps all the time, sometimes 2  in a row.  I loved it!  I started joining CT’s, with my very first being with Nicole Parker of Digi-Designs by Nicole who now owns Stuff to Scrap.  I was on 15 teams at one point.  Crazy!  WOW.  Then I fell in love with social media!  Yep… Twitter and Facebook!  My love of sharing news led me to the advertising/marketing gig at DRS and I loved it!  At some point, I discovered the fun of designing while working with CU products from Color with Caryn and I joined the mentor program.  I have learned so much and quickly found my unique style in designing.

Then life hit my perfect pixelated world and I had to get a job.  I started out full time but it quickly progressed to full time and more.  I was never home, and when I was I was exhausted.  Now most jobs are not that exhausting but this one was because I worked for a home daycare with a large license, meaning that 14 children could be there.  (Now if you read my old blog, you know this didnt work out and I wont even bother re-hashing all the drama)  A few months ago I left and have since been working on getting a license to open my own home daycare.  Its been alot of work.  We had changes to make to the house to make it child friendly and not obnoxious looking for everyday living.  We finally received our license in May, 3 months after starting the process.  I created our website and the logo was donated by the wonderful Sarah Barber who also created my digi logo!  How awesome is that!  I made t-shirts with my daycare logo, flyers, business cards, etc and have been trying to round up more kids to attend.  Its actually been really exhausting and stressful!

So to cut this long tale short, I haven’t even created a layout in 3 months or so.  Its heart breaking.   How can I continue my digi existance with no layouts of R.Patz?  Really, I should be shot!  I have made a few new digital kits but I havent even had time to upload them to the shop.  How sad is that?  So I made the heart wrenching decision to leave DRS, both as the marketing gal and as a designer.

So where does that leave me?  Here… at this little piece of web called my blog!   Come back by, bookmark me, add me to your RSS feed, get email updates (my personal fav option), follow me on twitter or facebook and be on the lookout for new stuff!  I will give away kits (as long as I continue to get wonderful interactive comments) and I will post hybrid projects (yep, I dug out all that paper stuff and have been loving the glue on my hands).

Thanks for reading!