Some Clients Just Can’t Wait

I slithered out of bed to design my most important clients’ extremely time-sensitive projects, I had just enough energy to pull these off. Client No. 1 requested a photo of one of her vintage baseball gloves & mask with a heart shaped baseball. (I took her equipment to the front yard for the photo shoot and modified an istock.com baseball image. J-Ray is short for Jamie Ray.)

Client No. 2 wanted a “modern” but cute bird and your basic “Happy Valentine’s Day” sentiment. (I’d bought her a sweet vintage wire bird cage for her room recently at the flea market, so I played off of that.)

Here are the results. I will meet with my clients this afternoon (after school) and am hopeful of their full approval and speedy payment (smooches). Once approved, I’ll print each image 4-up on cardstock and let the clients cut apart the Valentines themselves to exchange with their classmates tomorrow. But for now, this designer is going back to bed with her DayQuil.

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Tissue, A&E and Sketchbook


I’ve had to take a few days off of work and blogging due to a pretty lousy head and chest cold. I’ve been curling up in bed the last couple of days going through our Costco supply of tissue and it’s official, I have now watched every episode of Law & Order ever produced. Strange thing -as horrible as I feel, my creativivity is in overdrive though I have no energy to do or make anything. So I’ve been doodling in my sketchbook,while in and out of conciousness, ideas for Spoonflower fabrics and playing around with drawing custom fonts (there’s a few free sites online you can submit your scanned alphabets to and they create a font for you.) Jeff’s out of town until Sunday, so I’m on my own with the kids and such. Thanks for your patience, I’ll be back in the studio soon.

In the meantime, hop over to Just Something You Made for a killer Potato Soup tutorial! Click HERE!

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Decorating with Recipe Cards

Whether you have Grandma’s old recipe file or find a stack of vintage cards at a tag sale or on ebay, they’re great for more than just cookin’! Come read my latest guest blog post over at Right@Home on decorating with recipe cards.

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