Weekend Hi-jinx

This has been a great long weekend. I took Friday off so that I could go to my daughter's country singing competition. It was awesome. She did really well for her first year. She placed 10th out of 15, which in my book is great. She was in the 13-18 year old category. The contest took place at the North Bay Heritage Festival, over three days. It was great to take the kids there, it was the first time that they had ever been at a midway, they loved it. The rides freaked them out a bit, and the games were a ripoff of course, but we all still had a lot of fun. Finally something cool as a family this summer, it's been such a fast summer with lots of work, we just haven't done much together so it was a lot of fun. Work shall continue tomorrow, it's still a holiday but I have a website that is itching to get underway.

I leave you with a couple of Instagram photo's I took with my iPhone.

Approved

One week and one day ago, I had my semi-comp meeting with my clients for the freelance project I'm working on. I have to say it went amazingly well. They started off with some of the mundane priorities that they needed to cover for other things to do with the project and then I was given the floor. I showed them all the pieces that I had prepared and it was nice to hear some "wows" as we went through them all. I did up three versions for each piece and then we had a discussion of which ones they preferred, in the end there were only a few minor changes to be made and they were very happy. Now I need to get the website designed for proofing, and then code it and when they are finished with all the final copy I'll have to place it all in and then this project will be done. It has gone very smoothly so far and I am very happy with my clients, even thanked them for being such good clients, to which the chuckled and said "no, no, thank you for making this so easy". Have to thank all my professors at school for all the advice and training in how to prepare and deal with clients, it has certainly helped. I'll definitely be posting the pieces when the project is all over with... 

                             ...for now you'll just have to wait in anticipation :) 

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Firsts

Only six days until my second meeting with the committee in charge of the project I've been freelancing for. I was able to get all my semi-comps ready with time to spare for a little more tweaking. I'll be working on the design of the website for them this weekend, it wasn’t on the agenda to be done yet but I'm ahead of the game so why not. As our Prof's said in school, go into every project and over deliver, it doesn't hurt you any, makes a great impression and probably lands you repeat customers.

It is within my agreement with the committee that I can use everything that I've done for them for self-promotion, so I leave you with a snippet of one of the pieces I've put together, semi-comp of course... no idea if it will stay this way or go in another direction, I'll keep you posted.