Yay, this may or may not be exciting news!

I may (or may not) have my very first client!

Last week, our fancy tile showroom did a vender's table top event. While it was very slow all day, I did appreciate my boss and my coworker (our parent company's salesperson) handing out my card to everyone and telling them that I was the in-house designer.

Though that's what I have been telling people all along, I hadn't heard it from my boss before then. So, you can imagine how great that made me feel. Especially when it was told to people who actually said they needed design help. I still didn't really think anything would come of it.

Until two days ago.

This young guy walked in, who I remember meeting at the event. He said he was coming in to talk about his bathroom. Unfortunately, my brain was completely over-loaded with paperwork and orders and such that I just could not wrap my head around the design he was trying to achieve. The poor guy was asking me questions and I just couldn't seem to come up with any good solid answers.

He took a couple samples home and I made sure to tell him that he would have to bring them back. That way, I would be sure to see him again, and hopefully look a little bit more like I knew what I was talking about.

I have since, been sketching the crap out of "his bathroom", trying to come up with some design options. His house is in La Jolla (a very high end town) and eventually it is going to be a whole house re-model.

I want him as a client so bad. And I am so frustrated that I was unable to process anything when he was in here! I literally had paperwork all over my desk and miles of emails I was going through. I could not make my brain switch from an un-creative task to a completely design-related one. SO I called him. Just now. I told him that I was sorry about not giving him my full attention when he walked in, but wanted to let him know that I had done some research and that I will be prepared with pictures and sketches when he has time to come back in.

He said he would probably be in the beginning of next week.

Yikes.

In other exciting, possibly-means-something news, my boss mentioned something the other day that he has said a few times before. He said, "Well, soon we will be headed to the point where you will have an assistant and I will be gone. You will run the showroom and I will be out on the road as more of an outside sales rep."

Hmmmm.... interesting.