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  On February 13th of 2022, I received an email from Paul Spadafore of Impact XM through my website's contact form. He briefly told me about his idea to have an artist making mobiles at a booth in a trade show in San Diego. It would be for a company with Japanese heritage and Paul was brainstorming and wondering if I'd be interested in being a part of it before he pitched his idea to the company.  I checked my calendar and didn't see anything in my future that might keep me from participating, so I said I'd be interested, but had some followup questions. Once Paul...

The event in New York City that was originally scheduled for October 21st was rescheduled for Dec 15th. On October 20th I was supposed to take the mobiles to the Mandarin Hotel in NYC, but the event got rescheduled because the person who it was being held for had just gotten out of the hospital and was still not well enough to attend the event... the event was for none other than President Bill Clinton!!! When I learned who it was for I was floored! It was a good thing I had been sitting down, because I was so stunned that I...

On Monday, October 4th I received an email from Brittnell Anderson of Cogs and Marvel inquiring about giant gold crane mobiles for an upcoming event in New York City on October 21st. He had come across some pictures of gold spiral mobiles I had made in 2010, and wanted something similar. We soon spoke over the phone to discuss the details of the project and I learned that he wanted three 5 foot wide circular mobiles with hundreds of paper cranes all in gold.  I knew I could make the mobiles, but could I get it all done in the 16 days I had? Research needed to be...

This autumn I got an email letting me know that my product submission for the Etsy Design Awards had made it to the finals of the competition.  At first I was skeptical, and thought the email was a phishing scam, but when I re-read it I realized it was real! I could not believe it! I had honestly forgotten about my submission, and I couldn't even recall the category I had submitted for.   I was reminded with the email that it was the Kids category that I submitted for and am a finalist for. I was beyond excited, but also very reserved...