I’ve got six graphic design projects going right now and most of them are paid work. I’m working on making way too many Christmas and birthday presents.
It is possible that in October I got a little overly ambitious about Christmas. I’ve made it so I’ll be working every night on hand crafts from now [...]
I was thinking the other day that I would post my top five favorite songs so then I could get others to post their favorite songs. Then I realized that I couldn’t narrow it down to five, and frankly ten was a bit tough as well, so I decided that I’d just list my favorites [...]
It’s almost Halloween time, so let’s build a Portal gun!
Two quick notes. One, if you’re wondering, “huh?”, and don’t think you’ll actually play the game Portal that the gun is from, you can read my dissection of said game or listen to me rave about it on a podcast. Two, if you don’t care about [...]
We were full of the busy yesterday and I managed to get photos of big chunks of it.
First thing was playing with the doll house:
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In the afternoon we were off to hang out with our friends at Hallie and Remy’s house. I made all the girls t-shirts that [...]
A few months ago I got on a Do-It-Yourself planner kick. I love having a paper planner even though I rarely ever use one for anything other than meal planning and grocery list making. But I had big plans for the one I was making. Surprise! I use this one for exactly the same things [...]
I am embarrassed to say that I was a little bit cocky when I graduated from college with my design degree. I didn’t understand why people (clients) wouldn’t listen to me when I would tell them what was best for their project. I thought that taking their input and making changes to my work was [...]
This past May, Stephen asked me if I might want an older Mac laptop his company was retiring. I asked him how old the laptop was and what kind of prices they were asking. The price couldn’t be beat! It was missing the bottom cover but it was going for $2. He took the cover [...]
We were outside at the playset one afternoon this past week and Eli requested I tell him a story. He’s always making up stories so I guess he decided he needed a break from all the work and wanted to hear someone else’s made up stuff.
I might be crafty with a glue gun and paper [...]
I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed today. I realized this afternoon that I have about 17 frying pans in the fire and I’m trying to keep my hair from burning as well.
School has started back and I always forget that, even for pre-school aged children, the wheel starts turning again come fall. Eli and Liza [...]
I found this cool craft on one of my craft blogs and I wanted to do it but I didn’t have a tin.
A few days later, I was digging around in my car for some hand lotion and I found an old round Altoid’s Tin. It was almost as good as Christmas.
I immediately set [...]