From the monthly archives: September 2011
This is a follow-up to my post How to Get Top Notch Creative From Your Graphic Designer. In that post I talked about how donated projects often win awards because the designer gets to be in control of creative. I know all of this [...]
Here is a photo of a custom order I did recently for a group gift. I think the rows of nuns are pretty cute. These gift bags are really fun to customize! The bags came with matching black tissue paper.
I’ve been loving all the vintage and retro images on Pinterest lately. Once I pinned this image, it dawned on me that it’s pretty similar to something sitting on my piano… It’s funny how we can be subconsciously drawn to certain things.
This is an ad for a shopping center that opened in London earlier this month. It’s fun to see the clothing styles and the dance styles change through the decades. Enjoy!
At a family gathering over the weekend, my cousin and I were discussing our love of puns. She described several emails she exchanged with a friend, where each email had a better pun. She then commented that her friend’s wife didn’t seem too happy about their ongoing pun exchange. My brother-in-law chimed in “She didn’t [...]
“You can do it, Brucie!” is one of my favorite movie quotes. It’s from the movie Matilda. When the mean principal is requiring Bruce to eat an entire cake in front of the whole school, Matilda is the brave child who cheers him on, and her example leads everyone else to root for him, too.
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Here’s an upcycling idea for storing your headphones and iPod so they don’t get tangled up or accidentally turned on:
You can use small tins for headphones; they fit perfectly and keep your headphones neat and easy to unwind. The bigger Altoids tins are just right for storing your iPod and [...]
Each year on my children’s birthdays I tell them the story of the day they were born. They are all teenagers now, but they don’t roll their eyes too much when I ask if they’re ready for the story. They are wise enough to know that I am going to tell them anyway. [...]
I am lucky to be married to an outstanding graphic designer. When I needed a logo, I got one. Not just any run-of-the-mill logo, but one that captured my personality and the reason for needing the logo. You see, I’m a crafty introvert. I guess knowing your client really well [...]
I saw this over at The Painted Parsonage and immediately wanted to make one for myself.
I had a denim tote on hand, so that’s what I used. It originally came from Hobby Lobby. I gathered some fabric scraps from my collection and came up with my [...]
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