Happy New Year!!! (a week late)

We are already 7 days into the new year and new decade and I finally have a few minutes to sit down and write a few things! I hope the remaining 51 weeks of 2010 are as good to me as the first one has been.

I started the new year off driving down Colorado Avenue in Pasadena, CA. It was a fun experience having corn tortillas filled with shaving cream tossed at my car as I drove through the mob of people that had camped out for a great seat to see the Rose Bowl Parade that was happening in just a few hours. I had reserved seats for the parade, so I just enjoyed the ride (and my heater) while everyone else stood in the cold! The parade was great fun and part of me missed being a part of the design team, so I may do that again in the future.

To reflect back onto 2009, I have to say it was a pretty great year. I was able to do some great fun jobs as always, and I also had the opportunity to meet some incredible new people from all over the country and world. I designed beautiful flowers for weddings, coordinated events for the CineVegas Film Festival, created visual displays for vendors at the Las Vegas World Market Center and also decorated a Christmas tree or two. . .

Thanks to the help of my friend and wonderful PR assistant Kelly, I was able to make some really great contacts throughout Las Vegas and I had the opportunity to create a full page spread in Luxury Magazine and I also appeared on Fox Television, NBC and ABC. I hope to be making regular TV appearances throughout the year. Hopefully this is the first step until National TV and then onto my own show. . .keep your fingers crossed!

I also taught a series of classes at Whole Foods Market in Las Vegas about entertaining for the holidays. We had great fun doing those and I posted all of my topics to my blog. It was a great experience and I met a great friend, Shelly while working on that project. Also this year, I created a fan site on Facebook for my friends to keep up with what is going on in Christopher Todd Land. So far, we are 427 fans and growing.

With the over 400 fans that I have gained on Facebook, I lost the biggest fan of all this year when my sweet mother passed on August 6th. If there was anyone proud of their child's accomplishments, it was Annette Hall. She will be missed, but in her absence, I feel that it is making me work harder to honor her. It's funny that when a major player in your support chain is missing, you have to work much harder to make up for the void. . .that is the attitude I am trying to keep at least.

In closing, I want to say thank you to all of my friends and fans on my page. Some of you I don't even know, but I appreciate you wanting to follow me and my work. Please share my page with your friends and help me build my site.

Thanks so much and I wish you all a happy and prosperous NEW YEAR!!