It's funny how there are moments in life that tell you to keep moving forward. It happens to me a lot. Just when I think I should give up or take a break something or someone shows up to encourage you to stay on track.

I suppose "putting it out there" is the first step. I'm not sure where I learned this but as I get older I'm truly starting to believe that if you share whatever is going on to the universe and say it out loud, the universe will respond...

The last time I posted I was so sure creating a separate place for my invitation designs may not have been such a good idea and that maybe I should, in so many words, give up and just concentrate on my web design work. Websites were keeping busy. When the heck am I going to find the time to really focus on invitation and stationery design?!

All it took was one person from Australia (thank you Roslyn) to give me a thumbs up to keep going. I thought, "Wow, this is why I love the internet." It's so wild to have a friendly and encouraging voice from across the Pacific give me just enough of a boost to seriously reconsider.

Soon after, I received a packet of information from a letterpress printer about working with them. Then, Kevin of Jazyrain emailed to talk more about streamlining the process of working with him... Then came the encouragement of sales from Minted...

I took these as more signs of encouragement: Go do what you love!

So for the months of November and December I have decided to focus more on Coco Paperie with new designs with a debut of sometime in early January 2010. I'll have printed samples, more photos in the gallery and a maybe even some offerings in the shop!

Between now and then, I may throw some ideas out to share and get feedback.