It's time to say Goodbye....but only to designing

Retirement Sale

If you get the newsletter from theStudio, you've already heard this news.  I'm sad, excited to release the guilt and move into the next phase, and already itching to design but know I simply don't have the time needed.  That's right, I'm retiring from designing.  But I have been offered an incredible opportunity to do an occasional guest appearance, and I am really really looking forward to just scrapping and enjoying that for a while.  Designing takes a lot of time if you want to do it well, and too often designers don't get to scrap as much as they'd like.  Between my new job and being closer to family and friends, I just don't have the time to run my design business properly.  But I can't wait to restyle what digital scrapbooking looks like in this new life, and this blog won't be going anywhere.  So, I hope you'll stay as followers to the blog for those occasional freebies, guest appearances and hopefully some pages from the lovely designer friends and others out there!

Everything in my Studio store is on sale now for $1.  (Bundles are $2.) Visit my Personal use store or my Commercial Use store. I also wanted to share with you the message I shared with Studio newsletter recipients. Goodbye.  Too often it's never a word we want to say, but I guess it's time for me to say goodbye to designing.  It took me a long time to come to this decision, but I've made it.  In January, my family and I moved home to Iowa.  A place where my family and our closest friends live.  I was provided with a new and amazing job opportunity, and everything just happily fell into place.  I thought at the time I would take a month or two off and then pick right back up to designing.  Unfortunately that didn't happen. I tried in fits and starts to design again, but there was always another opportunity to do something with friends, visit family, and the boys have blossomed into all kinds of new activities.  It's marvelous, but unfortunately my design business has suffered and its time to move on.  I want to get to a place where I can enjoy scrapping again and just design the occasional freebie or something.  I feel guilty neglecting my business, and releasing it sets me free to explore the digital scrapbooking world in new ways that better fit my new life.  I've so enjoyed being a part of theStudio, Toiny and all of the designers are so wonderful.  This really and truly is a special place in the digital world.

My web page, www.jwdigiscraps.com, and Facebook page, www.facebook.com/jwdigiscraps will be active for at least another year, so when I do feel the bug and do some scrapping or something, you'll see it show up there.  I also hope to enjoy theStudio as a customer and friend as well and look forward to seeing you around from time to time.  And who knows maybe I'll make the occasional guest appearance! I'm honored to have been a designer in this special place, and I look forward to this new chapter in my life.  I hope you'll celebrate with me this month as I retire my store.  Thank you all for being wonderful friends.

Remember, Janice's products are all on sale for $1-2 until the end of October!