Dreamland Teddy reminding me...

Seems like a lifetime ago that I worked at Crown Craft designing baby bedding for their NoJo brand. It was a job that saved me from several bad life choices and helped to redirect me. But not only did it do those super important things, it helped me to see that I have decent design chops and each time I get in a spot where I think I'm invisible, or think that I'm not important or am not "good enough" I go check the status of the design I did at Crown Craft.

The baby bedding set I designed for NoJo's Little Bedding brand is called Dreamland Teddy and since it took off and did so well, they've since made a pink version to compliment the neutral one I created while I was there. Surely they'll eventually phase it out - it's been selling for nearly eight years on walmart.com.

On days like today, I go read the reviews of young mothers saying how much they love the cute design and I thank God that He gave me the ability and the opportunity to bless them in that way. Then I pray that He will help me to see that He's the one who has given me value - my value has nothing to do with what I do (or don't do or can't do) - that even if I don't feel important to anyone, He loves me. That despite all of the changes and upheaval in my life, that He is my rock - the One I can cling to as the waters rise and rage.

I still have the cute original bear and bee sketches and should probably frame them to further remind myself that I am not the loser my emotions tell me I am.