Hey hey hey!  More Updates!!!  I'm blessed to see a new age bracket (30) for about a month now!!  I've got a new assistant, Ericka Morton, who is fabulous! The last model rehearsal went so wonderfully!  A Top-Level financial sponsor came through last week!  The flyers are Beautiful!  We have a full staff and All rehearsing participants!  We have just about all of the materials for Every aspect of the event! Press is pouring through!  So far, I'm SO proud of all of the hard work--including my one stunt of working for 3 literal days straight--invested by everyone into this production!   I'm doing all I can to make sure this event is FLAWLESS!  Everyone is contributing 100%  Things are going well!  But don't think it's been a bed of roses the entire time...

Two weeks ago I canvassed businesses getting nothing more than NO's.  The budget had to be revised, and after all of the NO's, things looked completely hopeless.  I wondered if my planned-since-last-October-Event was going to have to be canceled.  Help was scarce, only two people showed up at initial auditions, models couldn't make it to rehearsal, we ran out of everything, from pricey printer ink and invitations to gas!  (Everything is being done IN-HOUSE except for over-sized items like the poster & photo backdrop!!!)

I've learned, and it's being reinforced, that if you do ALL you can, and take my dad's advice:  "You're gonna have to turn over EVERY leaf!" things just fall into place eventually.  Much of my hard work that seemed fruitless led to rays of hope that I didn't even see or consider!  Of course prayer makes all the difference as well, and boy have we been throwing them up there!!

Yes, Diligence pays!  Maybe not the week you ask for it, and maybe not from the source you expected, but someone is always watching & willing to help sometimes after seeing how serious you really are!  Go Diligence Go!!!