July’s highlights included designing an African travel themed promotional postcard, being on The Savvy Session podcast, participating in the Faire Summer Market and restocking several wholesale accounts, and preparing for three speaking opportunities in August…

June’s highlights included celebrating throughout our Midwest Wedding Tour, creating custom sticker designs for the Atlanta Botanical Garden, fulfilling many wholesale orders, and delivering my first order to a new shop at O’Hare Airport…

May’s highlights included traveling to NYC for the first ever Adobe Illustrator Summit, getting married, wrapping up work on two logo projects, and being on the Off the Grid podcast to chat about growing through generosity…

April’s highlights included starting two new logo projects, traveling to Florida and New Orleans, and recording two new podcast episodes…

March’s highlights included being a panelist and portfolio reviewer at Adobe’s Creative Retreat in Chicago, launching a new sticker collection to celebrate spring, delivering a wholesale order to Flyover Chicago, and co-hosting the first Makers United Meetup in Chicago…

February’s highlights include launching a new passion project to support Divine Dine Food Tours, moving my courses to this website, working on a new collection of stickers, and helping plan the first Makers United Chicago Meetup…

January’s highlights included a trip to Mexico City, packaging and delivering many wholesale orders, and some behind-the-scenes work on moving my course content and developing a new passion project…

Highlights of our 2024 trip included trying lots of Mexican food and drinks, going on a taco bike tour, exploring beautiful artisan markets, and enjoying the seventy-degree weather…

As we say goodbye to 2023, I am taking some extra time to round up some highlights from the year and appreciate the life that I’ve been building for myself…

December’s highlights included spending extra time with family and friends, booking some travel for early 2024, gifting stickers to a favorite local business owner, and making some wedding planning progress…