new thank you cards + where I'm headed soon

I have some brand new thank you cards printed. I rarely print cards with sayings, because then they become outdated or out of season – but thank you never fails, does it? I'm especially loving the combination of flowers and stripes in cheerful yellow. Apparently, stripes never fail either, at least not for me.

I'm working like a crazy person right now as I get ready to head out to San Francisco in a week and a half. As you might know, I decided not to go to Renegade SF a few weeks ago, but I'm going to be participating in this event. I've never done anything quite like this so I'm not sure what to expect, but I'll be bringing the thank you cards you see above, some of my favorite stationery designs and some wedding invitation samples. I hope to meet lots of friendly people there.

I love to visit San Francisco, and I'm super excited to stay with this very lovely person while I'm there. And to have coffee with this lady. And to meet up with some high school friends that I haven't seen in a long while. (I graduated from high school in 1993, to give you an idea of how long it's been.) And to eat here, where I'd happily eat every day of my life. And drink coffee here. And maybe have the patience to brave the lines here. And to visit Heath.

And after that I will fly to Seattle to meet up with Ben and Liam who will be visiting family on Whidbey Island before heading back home. Speaking of Liam, he had a fantastic time at MDA camp, though he had a pretty major accident the last evening. I can be somewhat cavalier about it now, because he's fine ... He thought that it would really be spectacular if he could drive his Snappie backwards down a steep hill. Well, that didn't work out well at all and he flipped his chair – this thing weighs 200 lbs and isn't easy to flip – and he landed on his HEAD. He was taken to the ER by EMTs, along with his counselor and camp nurse – checked out fine, but missed the last night party and didn't get to wear his cowboy get-up, which brought on many tears, understandably. That costume was awesome. And then Ben and I took him back to the ER two nights later because the goose egg on his head had turned into this alarmingly squishy thing. I didn't know that this was normal (which is not to say that you shouldn't take your kid to the ER if they have a squishy head); in a  panicky OH-SHIT way, I honestly thought his brains were coming out. Two ER visits, one weekend. No fun, but he is okay (though now, I'm not even kidding, he has a cough). I'm hoping, really hoping, it's nothing serious.

Anyway, I'll be getting ready to head out of town ... and working on some truly beautiful things for this person, whom I could not admire more.