Guess what!!!!

I just got a call today today to inform me that I have been nominated for the LIA/Heidelberg Print Industry Apprentice Award…or something like that. I can’t really remember – its quite long….

And I am one of EIGHT – in the runing to win a whopping $15,000!!!!! Oh. My. God. There will be an interview in the next couple of weeks where I have to show my resume and some samples of my work. Thankfully there is tons of that but I am a bit worried about my resume because I haven’t needed on in 5 years.
All that aside, I do have a perfect thing to spend $15K on – My letterpress of course! Nothing could be more perfect. I’d be able to buy everything I need to start the business. Thanks to my wonderful parents, I already have the most expensive thing…but I could buy inks, new rollers if I need them, a Boxcar base to stick my plates to, a bunch of plates for some initial prints, paper, clean up equipment….Everything!! And then still have a bunch of cash left over to travel to the US of A to learn how to use a letterpress!
Well, that would take precedence actually. The learning is more important. All the other things I could aquire over time.

Even if I don’t win – the interview and nomination is enough. I’m really happy now that my schooling has paid off. To tell the truth, I was a crabby little biyatch after the RMIT Industry Awards because I thought I had missed out on any of the awards. I was miffed because I’d won in previous years and then nothing even though I worked much harder in my last year than any other. I was also disappointed for my classmate as she wasn’t considered for any of the big prizes either and yet she is already in management and hasn’t even finished her apprenticeship yet. So I really hope she has been nominated too, even though she would be very stiff competition as she’s very accomplished and a much better ‘people person’ than I am.
So this will teach me not to be such a sore loser. Ha.

Fifteen. Thousand. Dollars.

*sigh*

;-P

And here’s a little kitty I whipped up for you. Inspired by Goma

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Categories: Fun stuff, Letterpress, Rambles

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