And I'd like to note that Christie's IM availability said "Folding clothes...:( " the whole time we talked, lol.
doomfaeryshannon (11:41:58 PM): hate to interrupt clothes folding, lol, but when you have a sec.....
clemmon03@att.net (11:42:15 PM): oh please....save me!!
doomfaeryshannon (11:42:20 PM): lol
doomfaeryshannon (11:42:23 PM): I can try ;)
doomfaeryshannon (11:42:29 PM): feeling kinda sick tonight
clemmon03@att.net (11:42:32 PM): awww
clemmon03@att.net (11:42:35 PM): I'm sorry to hear that
doomfaeryshannon (11:45:11 PM): so I'm trying to get myself into the groove of being able to talk coherently, Maria's been sweet enough to put up with me this last hour or so, lol
clemmon03@att.net (11:45:22 PM): awwww
clemmon03@att.net (11:45:24 PM): she's so great!!
doomfaeryshannon (11:45:37 PM): heck yeah she is!
doomfaeryshannon (11:45:52 PM): this is the 1st CT I was ever on
clemmon03@att.net (11:46:08 PM): she's sooooooo helpful!!!
doomfaeryshannon (11:46:19 PM): I don't doubt it :)
doomfaeryshannon (11:46:34 PM): What made you want to design in the first place?
clemmon03@att.net (11:47:26 PM): My partner in scrap Rachel (rachnmaddie) got me hooked on it. She started designing and about 2 months later I im'd her and said "So I have a kit in mind-point me in the right direction so I can create it" and from there on I was hooked!!
doomfaeryshannon (11:48:09 PM): awesome! where did she point you then?
clemmon03@att.net (11:49:00 PM): she told me to buy/look for commercial use freebies and pay items. She gave me a few store links and I just kept an eye on digifree for CU freebies. She also gave me some photoshop pointers like hue/saturation and blend modes
[Note: she was distracted at this point in the interview by her sister asking her questions.]
doomfaeryshannon (11:50:37 PM): Do you have a pretty big family?
clemmon03@att.net (11:51:11 PM): just my little sister Jennie, 24. She lives with us and has for the past 3 years.
doomfaeryshannon (11:51:45 PM): that must be an interesting dynamic, does she help with Kate?
clemmon03@att.net (11:52:21 PM): oh alllllllllllll the time!!! It's been really nice having her here. She helps out with Kate, the dishes, cleaning up the house. It's awesome!
doomfaeryshannon (11:52:38 PM): man, i wish i had a sister to come live with me and help with the dishes!
clemmon03@att.net (11:53:12 PM): LOL, to be honest I very rarely do dishes. It's the one thing I hate to do. Conor and Jennie pretty much take care of them.
clemmon03@att.net (11:53:30 PM): I love to cook but I hate cleaning up the mess!
doomfaeryshannon (11:53:44 PM): dh (nate) and I agreed in the very beginning that he would do the dishes, cuz I hate them, and I would do the laundry, cuz he hates that and now i do the dishes too, most of the time ;)
clemmon03@att.net (11:53:57 PM): LOL
clemmon03@att.net (11:54:42 PM): i do the dishes when I 'feel' like it but that doesn't happen all that often.
doomfaeryshannon (11:55:00 PM): lol, yeah
doomfaeryshannon (11:55:26 PM): so how long have you been scrapping?
clemmon03@att.net (11:56:32 PM): since November-ish of last year. I started making siggys for a message board earlier last year, then Rach and I became friends and she did digital scrapbooking. She introduced me too it and again, I've been hooked ever since!!
doomfaeryshannon (11:57:19 PM): wow, so you didn't even start out by scrapping?
clemmon03@att.net (11:58:21 PM): oh yeah, sorry. I did paper scrap. I started paper scrapping after Conor and I got married so 5 1/2 years ago. I did it but not very regularly as I hated the mess it made! All the tiny, little paper scraps just drove me crazy!!
doomfaeryshannon (11:58:43 PM): lol, yeah I've got several pencil cases with paper scraps piled in them
clemmon03@att.net (11:59:07 PM): exactly!!! I kept all the extra pieces, just inc ase i needed them and did I ever use them?!?! NO!
doomfaeryshannon (11:59:36 PM): I do, for card making at holiday time, that's about it
clemmon03@att.net (12:00:01 AM): Digital scrapbooking just fits me more than paper scrapping. I love being able to use things over and over again. And there is no mess!!
clemmon03@att.net (12:00:39 AM): I recently purchased a kit and made 16 pages from one kit!! I got my moneys worth out of it-that's for sure!
doomfaeryshannon (12:01:03 AM): 16?! how long did that take? it would take me, like, a month!
clemmon03@att.net (12:01:43 AM): lol, well I re-did my first digital scrapbooking pages with it. It just happened to be Kate's birth layouts. I did everything from the belly shots page, to the baby's room, to the day of her birth.
doomfaeryshannon (12:02:04 AM): i bet it makes a really neat album
clemmon03@att.net (12:02:30 AM): yeah I can't wait to send it to shutterfly and get it printed up. Looking through my gallery with the pages somewhat in order it looks awesome!
doomfaeryshannon (12:02:48 AM): I bet!
doomfaeryshannon (12:10:11 AM): so what do you do when you're not scrapping and designing?
clemmon03@att.net (12:10:39 AM): hmmm there's more to life than scrapping and designing?!?! rofl
doomfaeryshannon (12:11:08 AM): lol, sometimes
clemmon03@att.net (12:11:27 AM): Well I work 3 hrs a day, 3 days a week for my parents. Very light office work and most of the time I'm posting on digital candy or DST
doomfaeryshannon (12:11:41 AM): must be VERY light, lol
clemmon03@att.net (12:14:26 AM): very light office work indeed!! Answering phones is pretty much all I do.
clemmon03@att.net (12:13:18 AM): Other than that I spend most of my time with Kate. Ever since I was little I knew my life's mission was to be a mom. I started babysitting when I turned 13 and saved all my money for 2 years to buy my first car at 15 years old. I loved babysitting and it made it even more clear to me that I was made to be a mom! Kate is my life and I love spending every single moment with her.
doomfaeryshannon (12:14:32 AM): lol, that can be tough
doomfaeryshannon (12:14:51 AM): are you planning on having another child soon then? or like 10 more?
clemmon03@att.net (12:14:59 AM): LOL
clemmon03@att.net (12:15:55 AM): 1 more hopefully soon!! I'm so jealous of those that are pregnant right now cuz I'd so love to be.
doomfaeryshannon (12:16:23 AM): hahaha, yeah i TOTALLY know what you're saying, it feels like everyone's pregnant but me
clemmon03@att.net (12:16:31 AM): yes!! exactly!!!
clemmon03@att.net (12:16:49 AM): however, i'm having a hard time convincing myself that it's time to be pg again
clemmon03@att.net (12:16:59 AM): this time i know what i'm getting myself into! yikes!!
clemmon03@att.net (12:17:02 AM): look out conor, rofl
doomfaeryshannon (12:23:16 AM): So what does conor do?
clemmon03@att.net (12:23:39 AM): he is the Senior Project Manager for a local construction company
doomfaeryshannon (12:24:15 AM): wow, so he doesn't have to do all the manual work then?
doomfaeryshannon (12:24:37 AM): Senior Project Manager sounds important
clemmon03@att.net (12:24:51 AM): nope, he has an office job and runs some errands and such. He gets permits together for jobs, checks the county records, etc
doomfaeryshannon (12:25:01 AM): ahh cool
clemmon03@att.net (12:25:17 AM): yeah it's a super flexible job so that's nice
doomfaeryshannon (12:25:44 AM): oh yeah, i did want to ask, what was the first thing you ever designed?
clemmon03@att.net (12:25:51 AM): cherry lemonade
doomfaeryshannon (12:26:18 AM): yeah, but like the very first thing, the first item that you were like, holy cow, i made something, i'm a designer now!
clemmon03@att.net (12:26:58 AM): hmmmm, well it'd have to be something in cherry lemonade and i think it was a paper
clemmon03@att.net (12:27:08 AM): i made the papers in one evening
clemmon03@att.net (12:27:15 AM): all at once
clemmon03@att.net (12:27:19 AM): is that what you mean?
doomfaeryshannon (12:27:44 AM): yup :)
doomfaeryshannon (12:27:59 AM): i think so anyways, lol
clemmon03@att.net (12:28:07 AM): lol
doomfaeryshannon (12:28:28 AM): if there were a movie about your life, who would you pick to play you?
clemmon03@att.net (12:28:41 AM): Julia Roberts
clemmon03@att.net (12:28:57 AM): she's so talented
doomfaeryshannon (12:29:03 AM): yeah she is :)
doomfaeryshannon (12:29:12 AM): how many ct's are you on now?
clemmon03@att.net (12:29:36 AM): 3-Duchess Designs, Steel City Scraps and Beckie Wallace Designs
doomfaeryshannon (12:30:08 AM): and do you have any tricks for managing your responsibilities, like a datebook, or excel spreadsheet, or bulletin board?
clemmon03@att.net (12:32:35 AM): lol, i keep going back and forth on my answer...ok here's the real one.....
doomfaeryshannon (12:33:37 AM): lol
clemmon03@att.net (12:33:37 AM): I try and do my ct layouts for the digital candy challenges. That way you're knocking out a CT LO and adding to your DC points so you can get a gift certificate to the store.
doomfaeryshannon (12:33:54 AM): I'm with you there ;)
clemmon03@att.net (12:33:59 AM): i kept typing out something then erasing then retyping it, lol
doomfaeryshannon (12:35:30 AM): when i joined my second ct, and started really applying for others, I actually bought a datebook so i could write down the challenges at all the different sites, the call end dates, stuff like that
doomfaeryshannon (12:35:43 AM): i felt so nerdy buying a datebook for digiscrapping
doomfaeryshannon (12:36:15 AM): whats your favorite DC challenge?
clemmon03@att.net (12:36:42 AM): lol@the date book, that's funny
clemmon03@att.net (12:36:57 AM): hmmmm
clemmon03@att.net (12:37:17 AM): it'd have to be the speed scrap!!
clemmon03@att.net (12:37:26 AM): it's the most stressful hour of my life but the funnest too!
doomfaeryshannon (12:37:29 AM): lol, well duh! you're so vocal about that ;)
clemmon03@att.net (12:37:33 AM): LOL
doomfaeryshannon (12:38:31 AM): yeah, it seems i like my ss layouts better than the ones i spend forever on
clemmon03@att.net (12:38:43 AM): exactly!!! Jenn rocks the directions!
doomfaeryshannon (12:39:03 AM): i think dc could do it every week if the other designers jumped on board to help lead it
doomfaeryshannon (12:39:14 AM): or make stuff for it
clemmon03@att.net (12:39:15 AM): i totally would LOVE to lead one
clemmon03@att.net (12:39:25 AM): hmm i may have to talk to someone about that
doomfaeryshannon (12:39:50 AM): you totally should!
doomfaeryshannon (12:39:59 AM): are you leading any challenges right now?
clemmon03@att.net (12:40:27 AM): not right now but i'll be hosting the digidare starting in september
doomfaeryshannon (12:40:36 AM): cool
clemmon03@att.net (12:40:42 AM): :)
clemmon03@att.net (12:41:43 AM): how is the "oh no you didn't" going?
doomfaeryshannon (12:41:56 AM): better since jamie was nice enough to post in the community forum
doomfaeryshannon (12:42:07 AM): i had one entry so far i think
clemmon03@att.net (12:42:39 AM): awww, i'll have to check it out!
doomfaeryshannon (12:43:21 AM): yeah i had all these great ideas for it a couple months ago, and since then almost all of them have been in some challenge somewhere
clemmon03@att.net (12:43:37 AM): aw man!!!
doomfaeryshannon (12:43:50 AM): yeah, thats what i get for trying to be so original,lol
doomfaeryshannon (12:44:10 AM): k, so i'm gonna have to sign off soon, i'm starting to slur my typing
doomfaeryshannon (12:44:25 AM): so, tell me about christie lemmon in two sentences
doomfaeryshannon (12:46:43 AM): and i should tell the people i interview that they're not allowed to use the backspace key
clemmon03@att.net (12:47:07 AM): Christie Lemmon is a happy mommy who loves to create. She is inspired by her daughter, Kate and enjoys a good cup of coffee.
clemmon03@att.net (12:47:16 AM): ok there was only one back space and that was to add the word, Kate
doomfaeryshannon (12:47:26 AM): ahh okay :)
doomfaeryshannon (12:48:25 AM): That was a neat description
clemmon03@att.net (12:48:37 AM): aw thanks!
doomfaeryshannon (12:50:50 AM): okie doke! have a good night, and thanks for letting me ask a bunch of random questions
doomfaeryshannon (12:51:58 AM): g'night!
clemmon03@att.net (12:52:01 AM): night!
Yeah, I left the timestamps in, lol. Who knows maybe someone will get a kick out of them! So here are some awesome layouts by Christie and a couple previews thrown in there for good luck. ;)
This is Cherry Lemonade, the first kit she ever made:
This is her newest addition to the shop:
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