January 1, 2018 was my official first day as a Director and Publicity Chair of the North Carolina Genealogical Society and boy have I been BUSY. My primary responsibility is maintaining the NCGS Facebook page. Who knew that this would become such a creative outlet for me? I didn’t. When they asked me if I’d be interested in serving as the Facebook administrator, I didn’t put much thought into what it might entail. How hard could it be to post a few events, newsletters, etc.?

The trouble with me being a creative person is that I am also a perfectionist. In fact, I have been clinically diagnosed as O.C.P.T. Of the obsessive compulsive varieties, it’s the “good one”. We can live with imperfection but we’d rather not have to, thank you very much. Since I am responsible for the content on our Facebook page, I needed some help. I don’t like messy, amateur looking graphics and if I am going to put my name on it, I want it done right. So I invested in Adobe Photoshop and self-taught my way through the first few “ads” I posted on Facebook. I suppose they turned out okay because they asked me to design the cover for our next book which will be published sometime this Spring.

And, thus, I have entered the field of genealogical publishing with my very first cover design. (In my “spare” time between work and designing book covers for NCGS, my genealogical research continues… I’ll have more updates soon including two recent breakthroughs!)