This week has been one of my busiest in a long time! I started going to a knitting group full of  young, fun women in a beautiful space downtown. It was great to break out my needles and work on a project over cupcakes, korean food and great conversation. I tried to beat the heat and stay away from the mosquitoes- I’m convinced that if they bite my tattoo it will mess up them finishing it on Friday! On Saturday I was a model for some really cool local photographers I’m going to start shooting with, and we staged a wedding where I was the bride. It was a lot of fun & I can’t wait to see the pictures! On Sunday we hung out with my Dad on the deck, eating perogies and trying to keep the puppies out of the garden.

But that’s not the whole story of my weekend. And if you don’t mind, I’d like to gush a little.

On Friday I met up with one of my idols & teachers, one of those people you never quite hope to really meet:  Leigh-Ann from Freckled Nest. LA has a beautiful blog and an incredible online following, and she works as a full time artist and creative whirlwind. Her blog always picks me up and inspires me, and after taking an Indie Business class from her in the spring I was shocked to realize that she lived in my little prairie city. We’ve been planning something exciting that we’ll be announcing this week, and meeting her in person was wonderful, surreal and really exciting!

So much so that I might have tried to suppress a “omg!  squee!!” fangirl noise when when she hugged me, because I’m cool and collected like that.

You can find her at her blog & teaching Summer Camp with Red Velvet Art, and she’s every ounce the positive, savvy, and heartfelt lady you know her to be. All that, and a lot more :)