Anniversary Giveaway!

I joined Etsy two years ago this Saturday. October 24th, 2007. It probably took me a year to narrow down what it was I wanted to fill my shop with! I initially thought it would be my watercolors. Did you know that I paint? That was a whole other lifetime ago. =) Then I was working on digital illustrations... I mean, I DID go to school for that sort of thing. ; )

BUT when it came down to it, I knew I was a photographer at heart. When you can spend all day shooting and processing photos and wish the day was longer so you wouldn't have to stop, when you want to pull over every 1/2 mile while you are on a weekend drive because perfect shots are whizzing by, when the best job you ever had was editing photos for a daily newspaper well after midnight, and you grew up arranging your Strawberry Shortcake dolls just so you could photograph them... Well, then I think, if you are me, you'd say you were meant to be a photographer.

That, in a nutshell is how I came to my Etsy shop. And maybe I'm sharing the unorganized, behind-the-scenes process with you because sometimes we don't have a clear idea of what we should be doing at first. But dabbling in lots of creative endevours doesn't mean that we are flighty, or that what we decide to do is less authentic because we tried other things first. It just means that we are open to experimenting. And whatever form experimenting takes, I just know that it has a postive effect on what ever it is that comes after. Even if what comes after is what we kinda sorta knew we should be doing all along.

So, to celebrate this anniversary I want to give away any print in the shop. ANY print! As long as it's in the shop it's free game. That's pretty simple, right? If you'd like to share a story about your path, the experimenting that you did along the way that led you to what you are doing now, or something you did when you were growing up that hinted at what you'd do when you were older, that would be awesome. Of course, on the flip side, all you have to do is say "hi" in the comments and you'll be entered into the giveaway too. I'm not picky.

Happy Anniversary!
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P.S. I will also draw a runner-up that will receive their choice of a set of flatnotes. Cause seriously, two giveaways is better than one I say.

(Rules: 1 comment per person. Giveaway runs until midnight CST 10/24/09. I will draw one winner and that person can pick any item from my shop. The winner will be announced the week of 10/26/09 and will be responsible for emailing me their mailing address and what they would like from the shop.)