It is so thrilling when you set a goal, and achieve it piece-by-piece.

As an instructor, I’m a technique, tool and surface girl.  And so with my teaching hiatus coming up, I decided to seek out opportunities and try to expand my relationship with my favorite surfaces and tool manufacturers – and unbelievably I’ve been honored to be chosen to design with, instruct for and support these wonderful products and companies!

Design Teams, in alphabetical order:

• Clear Scraps

• Copic Marker

• Tattered Angels

• Zutter Zisters / Bind-It-All

These are in addition to Spellbinders, who has graciously asked me to extend my term through April of 2009.

In addition to these wonderful companies, I am continuing to work with my core curriculum manufacturers, who have also graced my life by allowing me to be an endorsed instructor for their products / company this past year:

• Prima Marketing
• Ranger 

With products such as these, there are no limitations to my creativity.  I can fully enjoy the experience and take advantage of synergies – using the products that inspire me from this wonderful industry that I love.

So I woke up this morning to all these 2AMer e-mails from my peers around the world, who saw the announcements on Bind-It-All's blog.  And said, yep – it's time to shout it out to the world.  It's not a dream – it's a wonderful reality!

I am also expanding my teaching venues for 2009, and will have those dates and locations posted this month.  Keep an eye on the Event Calendar, on the top-right sidebar.

Thanks for sharing my happiness today.  It feels great to have something positive to celebrate during this time of economic uncertainty.