Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
What Does This Template Say to You?
It seems templates are my thing these days. I love working with a design independent of elements and photos and then deciding what it suggests to me. I’ve been wanting to play with funky circles for a while now and hadn’t really decided on a direction until I browsed back through the January issue of [...]
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
Resolution: Organize!
Every January, there’s an urgency to clean out and organize and I don’t think I’m the only one who feels that way. I’m not sure whether it’s driven by advertisers and retailers or whether our natural patterns as humans have directed marketing efforts but the advertising circulars that end up in piles on my counter [...]
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
My Hero, Cathy
Right now I am sitting here in front of my computer with tears streaming down my face because I am laughing my freakin’ ass off! (Sorry for the language, but sometimes a swear word is the most effective way to express a very strong emotion.)
If you haven’t already wasted ten minutes (longer if you have [...]
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Scan Your Photos and Remove Clutter From Your Home
Yesterday, I blogged on Unclutterer about removing photo clutter from my life. I started with my wedding photos - mainly because they’d turned out terrible and I wanted the opportunity to have a go at them with Photoshop. I sent all the negatives to a local photo shop and spent a small fortune having the [...]
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
What Have We Learned, Class?
I didn’t want to have to admit it because writing it down makes it real and I soooo don’t want it to be real but it is, so here I go…
I lost an external hard drive. The one with all my digi supplies. The one with every layout I’ve completed since May. The one I’ve [...]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
TED Has Changed My Life!
I love brilliance. I get excited when I see and hear about ideas that are “outside the box” and intensely creative. So, imagine the heart-pounding excitement when I stumbled on TED.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It’s an annual conference that brings together the brightest thinkers from these three industries to work together. Each speaker [...]
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
Can Cabin Fever Cause Printer Ink Emergency?
Snow.
We finally had some.
For a brief, beautiful half-day yesterday, we had snow on the ground and fat, fluffy flakes floating with fairy-like grace to settle into drifts and piles. The kids got excited. I dreamed of magical photos with snowball fights and well-dressed snowmen.
Alas, it wasn’t to be. The temperature inched up and up until [...]
