Fall Freebie…A Bit of Butternut and a Bunch of Plum

April — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:25:58 +0000

I’m loving this purple color so much I had to do something fun with it. it’s a little bit of butternut and a lot of plum. Enjoy! CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

I just got a new “T-Mobile G1 with GOOGLE” phone!! WOO HOO!

April — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:56:58 +0000

O.K., I didn’t exactly get it in my hand, but I ordered it to be delivered on October 22nd…the day it comes out. YAY! I’m really excited about it. I’ve had a T-Mobile MDA for a couple of years now and an XDA before that and pocket pcs before that. I am ready to try something new. I'’m one of those rare people who actually LIKE Windows and Windows Mobile and programs that run on Windows etc. But I think the potential of this new operating system is worth being an “early adopter” of it. Android is an open source operating system which means if developers want to create applications for it…there are no limits to what they can do. It’s free and ready to be played with, improved and morphed. It’s not the prettiest phone in the pageant, but I like the interface and it has the full keyboard slider I’m used to. I would have liked it in white but only black and brown were available. It doesn’t look like it will be too hard to skin but the little ‘chin’ may make it difficult to find a case for.

I’ve been waiting for this for a LONG time and now, well, I have to continue waiting but I don’t have to rely on rumors anymore, so I’ll be sleeping better until October 21st when I’ll be tossing and turning like a kid on Christmas Eve.

Designers Take Note! This color is HOT HOT HOT!

April — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:53:49 +0000

Purple is the new gray! Seriously…it’s the color of half the dresses on the Red Carpet and can be seen on a BUNCH of products sticking out the doors of the stores in the mall. PURPLE is the hot color this fall! Not Halloween, bright, grapey purple, but deep, rich blackberry and plum combined with black and a hint of gold. Totally exotic and indulgent! I couldn’t help but put this trend out there for all you designers to work your magic with, so gimme something PURPLE to play with!

What do you do with a batch of bad water?

April — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:42:56 +0000

Yeah…you can get a batch of ‘BAD’ water. This one must have sat in the sun somewhere because it tasted like plastic and my husband is a firm believer in the toxicity of leached plastic. So, we had two cases of bottled water to dispose of. What to do??? I took a chance that it would ‘poision’ the grass and let the kids go for it. It’s amazing how different all the kids are and it’s so easy to see in a simple activity like this. Kelsey danced her way through the bottles, James chucked them across the lawn and then figured out a way to do three at a time. Joshua emptied the most water, although only half of his bottles made it to the grass. And in the ‘end’ he used his bum to crush the empties.
They had a lot of fun but now Joshua sees a water bottle and gets excited thinking he can dump it. Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea.

New Wacom Scrapbooking Site! Enter and WIN!!!

April — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:04:57 +0000

Say hello to penscrappers.com a new site from Wacom, makers of some of my favorite tools…namely, Graphire, Intuos, Bamboo Fun (and the drool-worthy Cintiq). Check out their featured scrappers! They just happen to be some of the best designers and writers in digital!

Featured are my fab friends Rhonna Farrer and Kayla Lamoreaux, magazine team members Angie Svoboda, Pattie Knox, Anna Aspnes, and Renee Pearson, Creating Keepsakes digital guru Jessica Sprague, and industry experts I’ve known and loved for a long time; Holly McCaig, Michelle Coleman, Tiffany Tillman, Amanda Dykan and Lucrecer Braxton.

All these super fun girls doing what??? Using Wacom tablets like Bamboo Fun to add spunk to their pages! And if you want to have some Bamboo Fun for FREE….get on over there and enter the contest!

Privileged…TOTALLY my favorite new show!

April — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:18:36 +0000

Yeah, I know I’m slacking by not posting about my fun weekend at Photoshop World…I’ll get to it! But in the mean time, I’ve been multi-tasking. Writing (have a Monday deadline!!) and watching the new shows that have been starting this season. So far, Privileged is my new fave. It’s a cute, funny, SMART and pretty clean show so far. An aspiring writer takes a job as a tutor for two extremely privileged teen age girls. There’s a ton of back story that seems pretty intriguing and the potential for some crazy ’sister’ situations that I love. Throw in some literary references and SMART girls and it’s my kind of show! It’s based on the book How To Teach Filthy Rich Girls by Zoe Dean. I don’t trust books these days so I may have to do a little research before I read it. BUT the show is TVPG! YAY for PG! Here’s a little promo video. The premiere episode was way cuter than the trailer so check it out on CW.