We can do this.

It's been a crazy few days. Nothing life changing or anything, but I've been pushing myself farther than I ever have. Kryss and I have been spending a lot of time working on our "hobbies" that we'd love to further pursue and do something with. Within the past few days, Kryss has been filling his sketch book up with more designs he's created. He's made little paper objects, a taco truck (he clearly misses home a bit!) and a camera. It's crazy, he drew out the plan on paper and next thing I knew there was a little paper camera in my hand. It amazes me how creative he is sometimes. He also taught himself Adobe Illustrator last night. In less than a few hours he was creating his own vector images. I was so jealous of how quickly he caught on. I was impressed with how skilled he was right off the bat. I'm still trying to find something he isn't good at. Enough filling his ego now.
I have been busy myself, it's scary. For the past few years I've told myself I wanted to open a business. I am a Photoshop fanatic and I'm also a sort of web designing newbie. At least I was last night. I am now so much more confident dealing with web design and Photoshop. I never thought I would be this confident in those areas, but after last night I kicked ass. I learned so many new things in just a few hours.
Because we're still waiting to hear back from our jobs, we decided we would start to make one of our dreams become a reality. At least that's what we're hoping.
He kills at anything drawing/vector related.. and I do a pretty great job at web design.
So, we decided we would start a web design business.
Now, we stayed up all last night learning more about each of our areas, coffee in one hand and the keyboard in the other. We surprised ourselves with how much we got accomplished.
I signed up for Etsy, coded a few layouts and have instructions laid out. I've began the process of designing a separate blog for all things design related. It's going to be a joint thing and I couldn't be happier.
But I'm scared.
Actually, terrified.
I know starting a business or any adventure should exude excitement and a good amount of nervousness. Of course I'm feeling those emotions. I'm also afraid. I don't want to work so hard at something and have it fail, I hate failing at anything. I've been down this path before, though I was alone. I dreamed of owning a design business and set out plans. I drew out designs and had it all set. For whatever reason, they didn't happen and it was pushed in the back of my head. I did this multiple times.
What reassures me is I feel like this time it's different.
I'm feeling confident.
I have a partner whose has been nothing short of inspiring and supportive.
I've improved tremendously since I last had this idea.
I'm ready to push myself farther and do anything and everything I can to make this a success. I can't wait to roll out the new design blog and the template designs in the next few days. I have so many ideas and I can't wait to put them into action!