2024 Update

Hello Everyone,

I am in awe that my last post was from October, but since then, I have had one of the hardest periods of my life. Just 4 days after that last post, my father, Brent, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. He was 58 years old and he was just gone. I live in Utah and he lived in California, so I was not able to make arrangements locally, my sister and I had to coordinate everything from out of state. When it was fresh, I was in the darkest place I have ever been. I love me dad, he was one of my best friends, the parent who I always had my best kid adventures with. He was far from perfect, and had plenty of issues he had to deal with  in life, his biggest being life long addiction issues. But that did not matter to me, I was very aware of who my dad was as a person, and that did not matter to me as a father. He was still the one I wanted to call whenever something exciting would happen, or the one I would call just to say hi so I could hear the excitement in his voice that I had called. He was finally starting to get his life back on track, he said it took a lifetime but that he was finally getting it done. That is one of the other great tragedies of this situation, he was FINALLY working towards his goals, and he had plans to start a business of his own, he was about to be a grandpa again, but in moments an aneurysm took him from us. I have known grief in my life, but nothing like this. It spilled over into my work, I was not drawing, I was not designing, I was stagnant, as the last post shows, months passed and I did nothing but try to adjust to my new reality, and after months, I still have not adjusted, I cannot reconcile the fact that I will not talk to him again, in this life, and that I only got 35 birthdays with him with me. I am the most devastated for my children, they are so young that I fear most of them will not remember him, just that he died young. I am, however, committed to keeping his memory alive and never letting them forget how much they were loved by him. I know how much I was loved by him and I never let me forget how much I loved him, because of this, I have no regrets. I am finally starting to get back into my creative groove, and finding myself again. I have just released a new Valentine’s Day collection in my Etsy shop that I am very excited about. I hope that you will check it out! I will link it below.

https://loveu2designs.etsy.com/listing/1652889148/printable-kawaii-valentines-day-cards