David is my fiance.  He has an unusual career that I find difficult, when asked, to explain.  Plus, he’s out of town so much that most people think I’m a single workaholic.  Partly true, but there is a live, loving man in my life, coincidentally he’s a workaholic too!  While a blog for Celebrations may not seem the appropriate place to introduce and explain him and his job, at least I can once and for all show and tell what he does for a living,  what he does for my company, and what he does for me.

I never actually gave him any live on-line credit before, and it’s way past over due!  I am now publicly thanking him for all the amazing things he does for me and for Celebrations and for Cafe C, and  I am recognizing that he does everything for us while he’s working madly at his own career.  Now is the perfect and deserving opportunity to highlight  the exceptional work by this wonderful man in my life. 

David is a designer, an artist, and a creator of anything you can imagine.  He’s the guy that can bring to life a concept, anything you bring up over dinner or a cocktail,  or even just in passing.  He’ll draw your abstract idea on a napkin (which he does at nearly every meal we have together), and  then he actually makes the concept  into a reality… no matter what it is (a three-month sliding wall-calendar display, a decorative box for your deceased pet’s ashes, a piece of furniture, custom front doors, my offices, and even a replica of a Jackson Pollack painting)   The best part is that the objects he creates are always even better than the those you were thinking of  in your head.  He measures everything twice and his project design drawings are frame-able works of art.

For Creative Kingdoms, his employer, he does the same thing I just described, but on a much, much bigger scale.  Remember that this is me talking, I’m sure he has more technical terms to describe his profession… but the way I see it… he meets with a bunch of idea men, computer geeks, technical gurus, designers, artists, and the like, who make a living producing a game called Magic Quest.  This game is sort of a Harry Potter meats Disney type magic wand game.   The fabrication is designed and built in Orlando, per David’s drawings and  supervision, then trucked to the installation location where David travels with a crew to detail out the final specifics of the game.  Most importantly, there’s a magic wand, big computerized dragons and Fairies, Pixies and the like and it’s way too complicated for my brain, but very popular with kids.  Points are involved!

I’ve traveled many times to see David’s work, places like Missouri, Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Upper Michigan…all places where large kid-friendly resorts are very popular.  I’m always amazed at the complexity and popularity of the whole magic game business, and how families afford the expense of a weekend at the Great Wolf Lodge and all it’s amenities.

Here’s a peek at David’s Work Life!

And can I end with… If I showed you pictures of EVERYTHING DAVID HAS BUILT FOR ME AND THE CELEBRATIONS COMPANIES, I WOULD RUN OUT OF SPACE ON THE BLOG!  Thank you David, you are amazing and dear to my heart and my success.