Archive for January, 2010
I went a little crazy and signed up for a big blog challenge for next month: Thing-a-Day 2010. The rules are simple, you create one new thing per day in the month of February and post about it on your blog and the group Thing-a-Day blog. It is supposed to be an exercise in creativity [...][ READ MORE ]
Well, today was gone before I even got started! How can 9+ hours disappear so fast? Travis is home sick today (he was terribly sick yesterday – sickest he has ever been probably) and we both just worked on our computers straight through the whole day. I had a few design jobs and emails to get [...][ READ MORE ]
I recently wrote about my troubles trying to buy a new camera lens on eBay and I wanted to tell about the great job ebay’s customer service did handling my problems. I wrote the “seller” – which was really just the production developer testing account – on a Saturday and told them about my mistake in [ READ MORE ]
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For my second official NYC Cupcake Review I went to my local, neighborhood bakery, Trois Pommes Patisserie. Trois Pommes is a tiny, but very cute and cozy place on 5th Ave here in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I love this bakery for its breakfast items and its good taste in coffee (Stumptown from Portland), but there [...][ READ MORE ]
I made this apron today! It took me all morning, but I am pleased to have followed through and actually completed a full sewing project. I used the pattern and instructions from Weekend Sewing, a lovely book I received from my mom for Christmas. I am also working on a full review of the book [...][ READ MORE ]
These photos are some of my submissions to the Mugshot Thursdays group on Flickr. Mugshot Thursday is just a silly, social project-thingy started by me and my friend, [ READ MORE ]
I have been working hard over the last two days helping a colleague with some design work. The icons above are related to the project. I did all of the illustrations for them from scratch and I am pleased with how they turned out. They are intended to represent the many different categories of crafting [...][ READ MORE ]
My new lens arrived last night, but I haven’t had much time to try it out. The picture above was one of the first with my new toy and captures Crusher somewhere he probably shouldn’t be. I have lots to learn with the new lens. The shot is focused more on his body than [ READ MORE ]
Last night, I went on a girl date with my friend, Emily. (Emily works with Travis and she is completely brilliant, and into literature, and has lived in the city for a year longer than I… so she is pretty much way out of my league. Thanks for hanging out with me, Emily!) We had [...][ READ MORE ]