I think I’ve over extended myself. I’m involved in so many projects until I have no time for socializing and very little time to sleep.

Here’s a brief rundown of some of the things I’m doing:

Souvenir Book

I’m designing a book for the Smooth Ashlar 146th Grand Lodge Session that will be held in Macon Sept. 23-28. Although I’ve done more than 40 pages of the book, I still can’t remember what emblem goes with what group because there are so many chapters. So I made a chart to help me assign the emblem or emblems with the appropriate group.

So far, I’ve designed ads for the Royal Arch, Shriners, Amaranth, Consistory, Daughters of Isis, Heroines of Jericho, Knight of Temple, Masons and The Order of Eastern Star. There are a slew of chapters within each of the aforementioned groups, and many of the chapters are buying advertisements in the souvenir book.

I find it amusing that some of the chapters purchased a half page or 1/4-page ad and included a picture and message the equivalent of a textbook to go in the small spaces. I must say that I’ve been working earthly miracles on many of them.

I’ve been forewarned that the deadline for advertising is Thursday and I should expect a flood of ads to arrive. And of course, there will be late submissions. I’ll be ready.

Gospel concert

As the fundraising chairwoman of the Pearl Stephens High School committee, it is my duty to find ways to raise money so that we’ll be able to award the Pearl Jackson Stephens Memorial Scholarship to a deserving Houston County student each year during our school reunion.

So at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Union Grove Baptist Church in Warner Robins, GA, groups and soloists will perform during a gospel concert. So far, I’ve gotten an emcee and two church choirs committed to the event and there are a few who will let me know this week if they’ll be able to perform that day.

After the groups are committed, then I’ll need to advertise the event – make flyers and send announcements to the media and various churches.

School

I’m taking an electronic design class. The class is very demanding and requires us to sketch, sketch and then sketch some more. I’ve stop resisting the technique and I’m actually learning to sketch. My second assignment in this class required 20 sketches of a newsletter design and then my fourth assignment required 20-30 sketches of newspaper advertisements. For each of the assignments, we had to pick three of the sketches and then create them in the Illustrator or InDesign software. I loved that part of the assignment.

During the first week of class, I had to adopt a fictitious client for the duration of the course. My client is Macon’s Freezy Delights, an ice cream parlor. For my client, I’m required to design a newsletter, ads, logo, a package design for the product and a Web site to generate more business.

With the above obligations, there’s no time to be bored.

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