November 2023 - Ch... ch... ch... ch... Changes

 Normally, we have our Kill the Kit feature on the last day of the month but as you know, I very rarely kill my kit in the month I make it. For the last year or two, I've created a summary of the ideas the team have had through the year which is always very inspiring so I do suggest you go back over the posts from this year to remind yourself of our ideas.

This month is different though. This month we have some news we'd like to share and some changes to the team that you'll see in the next month or so.

We have some people to say goodbye to which always makes us sad. Our talented Design Team really is a family and there is a lot of fun and chat and inspiration behind the scenes. We have each others' back, we support each other and are very much there for each other. So it is ALWAYS sad to say goodbye to anyone. Therefore, it's with a very heavy heart that we have to adieu to three wonderful team members who we are already missing:

Anna who was only with us for a short time but wowed us with her talent and readiness to help out wherever needed. She moved on a while back but I've been waiting to make the announcement.

Laura was with us since 2018 and I loved bringing in a little more European influence to the team! She had a great attitude to putting her kits together - making it work for her, printing digital elements to make up parts of her kits, moving to digital kits when her printer died and her aversion to Blogger! I think we can all relate to that!

Leslie has been with us for a very long time! If I'm correct, it's more than 10 years which is a LOT of kits and pages and forgeries and so much inspiration. She is a creative force to be reckoned with.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank them for their contributions to our team over the years and we will miss them. 

Please join me in sending them a virtual group hug and we hope that they will join us in the community when they have time.

But wait, there's more 😉

I'm also stepping down from the team and from the administrative support of the team overall which means that this month - the kit I picked out, the challenges, the pages, the GD and the Follower Showcase - have all been my last! It was quite bittersweet to be honest. But it's been a long time and I have so many years of Counterfeit Kit Challenge memories to make me smile! 

I first played along in early 2011, became a Master Forger in October 2011 and then took on the administration of the team in 2016. I've only missed one single month in all that time and I've just looked up how many kits and mini-kits I've made and it's scary! Let's just say too many to count - I kept skipping numbers and now I've given up actually trying to come up with a definitive number!! I've lost count of the pages and projects I've made but let me just say that the dozens of completed LOADs over the years would not have been possible without those piled up, un-killed kits on my shelf! I've been inspired by the team, by our process, by the challenges and of course, by our followers. So it was a very hard decision to step down and away, but I am leaving you all in the best of hands. 

The most wonderful Tara will be taking over the responsibility for running the team and I know she is going to be AWESOME!!

No doubt she will make some changes - maybe even big changes - but she is as passionate about what we do here as I have been and I know she will do a fantastic job. 

I leave you all in good hands and I can't wait to watch from the sidelines!

I'm not heading out just yet though - I'll be contributing to "Sketching Around the Christmas Tree" so I'll see you there!

Lisa