Dear Active Rain Friends and Family,

I am coming up for air and thought I would give you all an update on me!  It was absolutely crazy getting everything ready for our upcoming National IRIS Conference.  We finally made our driving trip to Southern CA for our National IRIS Conference that will be held in San Diego, CA next week on Oct. 8-10th.  We will also be doing the Pre-Conference Dewey Color Training so there is a lot of excitement to be training some of our fellow Redesigners and Home Staging on one of my favorite passions, Color!

We just arrived to Riverside, CA where we will spend this weekend visiting with our family.  It will be great to see my brothers, all of the kids and of course, Mom!  It has been two years since I have seen them.  I'm sure all of the kids will be taller than their one and only Auntie!  I can hardly wait to meet the family for lunch.  Yippee!!

It was great to visit with Dan, my hubby on our trip.  Sometimes it is just good to unplug from everyday life!   We were amazed that in the middle of the desert we were able to get reception and hear the Vice-Presidential Debate over the radio yesterday evening while traveling in the middle of the desert.  Isn't the technology amazing these days? 

I am also honored to be doing a Break out Session at the Conference on Budget Decorating Ideas. I invited my Active Rain friends and fellow IRIS members, Jennifer Duchene from Lift Your Spirits Home Transformations, Palo Alto, CA and Renee Pratta , to do our presentations as a team.  We will each bring something different to the table.  Even though we live all across the country, it has been fun to be part of IRIS and share and learn together.  I have really been very blessed and privileged to have met such amazing and creative people in our industry.  We are all spread across the country; it will be fun finally do this together!  There has been lots of planning and to think it is finally here it is exciting.  We are all very unique and have our own unique gifts.  It will be lots of fun and I know that we all can learn and benefit from some of these very practical and easy ideas we can do as we decorate, redesign or stage homes today.

I will also finally meet some of my fellow Redesigners and Stagers that I have met on Active Rain!  It will be fun to see and talk to each other face to face, even though we speak to each other on our time in the Rain.  Even though I have not been as active as I would like these days, I am thankful for the amazing friends I have made here.  Depending on my schedule I will be sharing updates from the Conference.  I am excited.  Keep me in your thoughts and prayers that I do a great job as I present and train others.  My goal is to be an encouragement to others and help others become their very best in their lives!

~Have a Colorful Day!