All registered and ready to go!

I have FINALLY registered for the Summer CGOA conference in Buffalo in August!

We (Margarita and I) will be arriving on Tuesday (8/4) mid-afternoon and will be staying in the main hotel. So if anyone else is going and getting in that time, buzz me and we'll maybe set up a dinner or something!

Wednesday morning (8/5) I'll be heading over to Professional Development Day. I'm really looking forward to this because the thrust of the round table discussion will be finding balance and making money at what I love. I'm really excited about finally meeting my colleagues in person. I was mentioning to my mentee last night in email that I think that's why it's so hard for me sometimes to see myself always as a professional designer. I'm isolated and haven't met my colleagues yet. I think once that happens it'll be a bit better.

Anyway, I'm currently swamped on Wednesday. I already have a dinner appointment and working meeting for that night.

Thursday morning (8/6) I'll be in Fine Shaping in Stitch Patterning. I'm really excited about this, too. I've taken a class with Lily Chin before and she's a fantastic teacher. Since this topic was the main thing I had issues with during my pattern grading class, I think this will be a great help for my design career.

Thursday afternoon I'll likely be sitting somewhere with my laptop transcribing all my notes before I forget what I wrote down. :) In other words, I don't have a class.

Thursday night is the CGOA Design Contest award presentation. I'm working on something right now to enter and am really looking forward to seeing how I do. More on that later if it works out for me. :)

Friday (8/7) I'll be taking an all day class: Crocheting Sweaters from the Top Down again, by Lily Chin. This one will also be good for my design career because I really want to start designing garments, but I hate seaming. :) So I'm really looking forward to that one.

Friday night we have the CGOA Annual Member meeting. Having never been to one, I'm looking forward to that. After that, who knows what will be going on. :)

Saturday (8/8) I have no classes, but I do have the Designer Meet & Greet (another reason I really wanted to go to conference). Then that night is the fashion show and dinner. I will say that I will be entering a design that will be published just before conference (so I can't tell you what it is yet) and I'm going to go ahead and be the model for it if they'll have room for me to enter it (Margarita isn't going to let me not model it). So, there will likely be pictures of that.

Nothing going on that Sunday (8/9) other than us traveling back to Florida.

Can you tell I'm excited? :)

I hope to have a post for you sometime by this weekend with pictures of other things being worked on. That's all from here. We're getting a really good thunderstorm (which we desperately needed) right now so I'm getting off the computer.