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one year ago today

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It was 5pm-ish Thursday, October 21, 2010.

The phone rang.

“I have some bad news”

Long pause.

“My position was eliminated”

I started to cry.  We knew that this was coming.  We knew we needed to plan for this. But it wasn’t supposed to happen so quickly.  It wasn’t supposed to happen now.  We weren’t ready.

He explained about the package and how long he’d be compensated for.

I was still crying.  What were we going to do?  The package he was offered would help us for a bit.  We had some time to figure things out.

And finally I uttered the words, “We’ll be okay.  We’ll figure it out.”

 

That was 1 year ago.

Once the tears stopped falling. Once fog lifted.  Big Daddy Kreativ was born.

Emails were sent. Phone calls were made.  And everyone who we could think of was told that Craig wouldn’t be looking for a new job, but would be working hard to build his business.

And build it he did!

He now has over 11,000 followers on and over 770 fans on . He has worked with some amazing clients from across Canada and continues to make new connections everyday! 

Now I cry tears of joy!

It think back over this last year and some of the amazing things that have happened …

… t-shirts for @cocktaildeeva, #TiaraArmy (@those2girls, @1ofthose2girls), @jasondyk (to name a few)

… seeing Craig speaking at the #140ConfONT and loving the infectious energy it creates (Thanks, @jeffpulver)

… seeing that he’s busy designing some fun products for people; helping their businesses

… seeing him evolve from not knowing what a tweet-up is to running them with @kitestring, @troyclaus, and @dannybrown

… meeting so many awesome people (I’d list them all but I’d be so afraid of missing someone…you know who you are)

I am so thankful of those twitter friends who have become amazing friends in real life and have become great supporters of Big Daddy Kreativ.  Knowing that people love Craig as much as I do (…almost…) is amazing.

I’ve always known how talented he is. At the previous job, he wasn’t able to use his talents to the fullest.  Now he has spread his wings and is soaring!

To my dearest Craig:
 
Everyone one was right…getting let go was the best thing that could have happened.  I am so very proud of you!  All your hard work is paying off.  You’re so much happier than one year ago. 
 
I am very proud to be @BigDaddyKreativ‘s wife!

 

staring at a blank page

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I sit here staring at a blank page.  I know I should write more. I’m sure there is stuff in my head that I want to write about.  But I sit here staring at a blank page.  Where is my inspiration?

There will be posts about our basement.

I could write about back to school…but the kids are doing great and nothing overly exciting is going on.  Munchkin seems to be paying attention better this year as she is able to answer the question “what did you do today?” and is generally excited about answering.  Peanut comes home with new paintings every day.  This is her dream!

Activities are slowing starting. Brownies is Mondays and they have had one meeting.  She learned her Brownie promise and law and sang some songs.  Choir practices have started.  And Peanut was allowed to start before she is 5 because of the video of her I posted on YouTube.  The choir director saw it and thinks she’ll do okay! :Swimming doesn’t start until October.

BigDaddy has been extremely busy since speaking at the 140 Characters Conference last week!  Which is awesome!  Thank you to everyone!

Hm….maybe I need to do this more often.  Just stare at a blank page and write.  I think I have some ideas for some posts for next week. Thanks for listening to be blab.

What do you do to find the motivation?  How do you keep track of what you want to write about?

Win a ticket to #140ConfONT from @bigdaddykreativ

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BigDaddy has been working really, really hard to build his business.  Social media has really made a huge impact on the success that he has achieved so far.

You can find him on  Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

He’s speaking!

The people from the 140 Conference have recognized his hard work and he has been selected to speak at the 140 Character Conference happening September 15th in Kitchener, Ontario!

New website!

I’m so excited to announce that Big Daddy Kreativ has a newly redesigned site!! You should go and check out all of his amazing services!

I enjoyed moving him over from an html-based site to WordPress so that I can get him blogging too!  I’d love to know what you think!  Please leave comments (below) with your feedback.

Stay tuned for the addition of his blog and a gallery of his amazing work!

Win a ticket!

To celebrate, BigDaddy is giving away a ticket to the sold out #140ConfONT in Kitchener, ON!!  Just go to his new site and find the link on the main page!

Disclosure – This is not a sponsored post. BigDaddy is my husband who I love with all my heart. He’s a very talented graphic designer and can work wonders for your company.