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Hi – I’m Sue Reyzlik. I recently realized my life-long dream of building a writing hut in the backyard. The writing hut serves as a creative space and home office for Oma Publishing. This blog will be intermingled with family history, varied experiences and insights on being a Grandma (Oma), creating my special backyard space, as well as, my “retirement” career as a self-publisher of children’s stories. And perhaps a little bit on the 32 years I served as Executive Director for Keep Fremont Beautiful and the wonderful people who are sharing this adventure.

Making Me Look Good

4/10/2019

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Troy Holcomb, owner of Max Design
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Allison Taylor, fellow designer
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Elena Paz, someone I haven't been able to break and another designer
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Crystal Hart, backroom queen
            I have told Troy many times “Thank you for making me look good.” Now he just proudly tells me whenever he has done something totally magnificent on behalf of Oma Publishing  – “I made you look good.”
            Troy is the owner of Max Designs here in Fremont. I began working with him when I was Executive Director of Keep Fremont Beautiful several years ago. His company set up, printed and mailed our newsletters. Max Designs also printed information materials for KFB such as the ordinance sheets, the recycling opportunity lists, the inserts for the Department of Utilities, the Household Hazardous Waste Brochures and dozens of other print material projects.  
            Max Designs also supplied KFB with yard signs for the Recognition Program and banners for various public events. Troy always made sure that Keep Fremont Beautiful looked good and we appreciated his expertise and dedication to our little non-profit.  
            When I decided to self-publish my first book, I researched the possibilities online and was pretty much intimidated. I wanted to control the process and be hands on with the development and final project. I knew the perfect person to ask for advice – someone I trusted to have my back – Troy.
            He was intrigued by the book idea and was confident that Max Designs could produce a good product in a timely fashion. I worked with one of his designers, Allison Taylor, on developing and setting up each page of the book. I was very hands on and both Troy and Allison tolerated me very well. I took over their counter space and time – I made myself at home and they let me!
            As the book was nearing completion, I started throwing out ideas for other products that I would like to sell. Troy said sure – whatever I wanted to do – t-shirts, prints, bags, stickers – he thought it sounded like fun – and Max Designs could do it all. 
            So, with other products in development, Max Designs started working on the Oma Publishing Website. Elena Paz was tasked with that project and spent many hours helping me develop the site and fine tune the details. We set up a payment account and Max Designs would fulfill all the orders received on the website.  
            Recently Max Designs helped me design a t-shirt for our Muscular Dystrophy Association Muscle Walk Team – “Gracyn Maehem”. Gracyn Mae is my granddaughter. She is three years old, soon to be four and has muscular dystrophy. She wanted a fierce looking character on her t-shirt. Fierce Freddy wasn’t exactly fierce looking enough for the guys on the team – so we went with a tiger. I drew the tiger’s head and Elena added the fierce font. Gracyn chose blue, pink and white for the color scheme – so we made it as fierce as possible using some really pretty colors. 
            Max Designs helped create a MDA Muscle Walk sign up sheet for our team and made the neatest donation box for collecting change for the MDA. Max Designs is pretty amazing!     
            The book, the website, the t-shirts, the prints, the stickers, the posters and shipping the orders near and far, have been completed professionally. Everything that Max Designs has done for me and Oma Publishing has made me look good and for that I will always be grateful.                                            
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Sue Reyzlik
4/10/2019 05:31:49 pm

Troy is a great guy and his staff of fierce women has helped me start a business and realize a dream!

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