My cats lovin the fan in my laptop
I can’t believe its been almost a month since I last posted! October got the short end of the stick because it flew by without warning. It was a whirlwind of work and play. Im not even sure how November got here. But, seeing as I’m a Christmas person, and now its right
around the corner (don’t debate it, go to a store) the days will drag out forever as it gets closer and closer. Which is good, because I have a lot of work to do.
This month I am starting an email campaign for Blue Crab Grill, doing a holiday ad for a jewelry store and designing a new site for a comic and graphic design artist (and in my down time, I will be going nuts preparing for holiday ruckus).
I am also hosting a toy drive at Captain Blue Hen Comics for the children of Neumors/A.I. duPont hospital in the month of December. I made some posters and have handed them out as well as hung them up at the store. I am hoping we can bring in lots of toys. Our customers have been really awesome about donations in the past so I am optimistic for this one.
Breaking Ground
Its official – I have a new site in the works for a local restaurant. The project will consist of a new design fro their website, setting them up with a email application, and more. I’m excited. It’s a place I have enjoyed going to for dinner several times. It fits my bill of privately owned, small, local business. Yippy!
Yesterday, I was in Baltimore, MD, for a retailer summit meeting for the comic book industry. I went to a presentation on building bigger better websites for retailers. A lot of time was spent discussing how to make sure you get what you pay for and don’t get screwed out of what is yours. I couldn’t believe how much was said. I was in a room of retailers looking to build websites – probably only 1 of 3 or 4 designers in the room. The whole talk made me kind of sad.
These people are in need of something that not everyone can do but have their guard up because of some bad stories.
I don’t like fine print. I know it’s their to cover somebodies behind. It just always seems kind of dirty to me. Give people hard honest work and you will get a lot farther in life then trying to be deceitful. Or maybe you can make millions lying, but I know which would let me sleep soundly at night.
Busy in Baltimore
I’ve been keeping busy enjoying fall, lining projects up, sewing, and cooking. 
Keeps me on my toes. I have two meetings next week and will be in Baltimore for the comic book day either two or three days for a retailer meeting and comic convention.
The Captain Blue Hen Comics is having an author signing in November. Three local and well established authors will be there from noon until 5ish. I put together some images for the stores website and facebook yesterday morning. For more information on the authors or the signing, or the store in general check out their site – I had a part in designing it too 
Keeping Busy While Listening to a Nerd-off
Vent is hilarious.
I have been busy working with a college all day trying to get the paperwork in order so I may be able to go back to school. Yeah! Debt! Other then that it was a pretty mellow day (which was quite nice) in which I worked on two fun images in photoshop and made a few changes to a clients project.
I love tutorials online! They keep me on my toes seeing new things, or even things I know, but from a new perspective. I must look at 4 or 5 sights daily that just post tutorials, trying a few out here and there. Thank the internet gods and kind people for making Adobe and web tutorials of all kinds possible.
Lucky for me my boyfriend is a nerd in denial who plays WoW all night. This leaves me lots of free time to fiddle with previously mentioned tutorials -or, on some nights, be a nerd in my own right.
I have also been making aprons lately in my free time. I completed one last month with a cute cherry pattern on black and this month I started what I am envisioning to be an adorable one with black and pinks. The problem to this is I don’t own my own sewing machine, so I have to use a friends. I feel like a bad friend when I ask to hang out so I can sew. 
So I am considering asking Santa for a very VERY inexpensive sewing machine.
I really think the aprons I am making, and the ones I have planned out are quite cute. People asked if I would be selling any. Who knows? Maybe I’ll have the design business, school, comic book store and aprons. LoL. That’s a portfolio you don’t see every day. And yes, I play Final Fantasy too. 
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I have been making some new signs for around the shop. You know, the kind that direct people where to go. They aren’t very exciting, but I loved this one, so I’m sharing it with you.
