just when I thought my luck was over.

I've been really down in the dumps lately with all the rejection going around with the DTs I've been trying out for. You've read my previous posts so I won't continue to complain. It's taking a while, but I'm actually ok.

Tried to scrap after I put Jonah down to sleep for the night, but I wasn't feeling very inspired to do anything so I decided to hang out on the computer - visit blogs, visit messageboards and stuff... maybe get my mind off of things.

So I came across my pal Kim's blog and she posted about a toot! That one of her LOs will be featured in Scrapbook Trends' future Wedding Idea Book! So awesome - way to go, Kimmie! :)

And I thought to myself, wow, at least one of us will be in print for the first time. :)

Well, then I decided to check my emails (one of my many accounts) via Yahoo... and I hate my Yahoo account - it's old, it's full of spam, but I used to use it for my ScrapSubmit stuff because I couldn't figure how to change the preferences for emails and send it to a different one. I'm always afraid submission requests would get shuffled to my Spam folder and I'd miss it completely.

I remembered sending a submission for the wedding book a while ago... Kind of on a whim. I didn't think anything of it when I checked my mail. I just had to go deleting through tons of more spam that didn't get filtered - male enhancement, Viagra, refinance my home, etc...

but then I saw it... an email from ST requesting one of my digital LOs I submitted a while back.

Just when I thought my luck was over - my very first paper, in print magazine/idea book TOOT.

I'm so giddy, I can't stop smiling so stupidly right now... Wish Carl was home (he's at work) so I could share the news with SOMEONE in real life right now! But it's still great to share with my blogging peeps!

Thanks for the love and vote of confidence, everyone!

Stay tuned in the next couple of weeks - I've got a ton of stuff to RAK in honor of this wonderful day AND my 30th birthday *coughSeptember4cough* :)