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Brocade Bridal Fashion Show, San Francisco.

Hey, readers! Just wanted to drop you all a quick post to let you know that I'm still around! It's been a few weeks since I've added a new post on here but I just finished moving (not far, I'm still in Northern California) and getting resettled. Organizing everything has taken a lot of my time and energy. On top of moving, I still had to maintain my work schedule so you can imagine how thinly I've been stretching myself these past few weeks. I'm pretty tired these days, lol.

The Spring bridal season for Brocade Weddings came to a close last Sunday and the Fall season doesn't start up until September so I've got a nice break there from the shows. However, I did just book another fashion show with the San Francisco boutique retailer, Saffron Rare Threads, which will take place later on this month. So that'll be fun!

As always, when one category of work slows down, the others pick up. Because of the move and other priorities I had going on, I haven't had a chance to do as much modeling but I did do a handful of acting projects. I'm guessing that in a week or so that will flip, which means modeling projects picking up and the acting work slowing down. It's a nice balance for me, though, so no complaints!

Now that I've gotten the move out of the way, I've finally had a chance to sit down and start submitting to gigs left and right. The next step is playing the waiting game and hoping I get some hits! I do plan on continuing to add more posts to my blog here for your reading pleasure--honestly, my mind has been running a mile a minute these days so I haven't had a chance to slow down enough to compose an informative and entertaining blog post. But I do miss updating my blog so I thought I'd get back into the swing of things by updating you with this latest post.

So stay tuned...can you believe it's already May?!

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