I recently completed a quick blog redesign for my friend Amanda over at Sand Plums.  She has fantastic craft ideas and wonderful recipes for foodies like myself.  Her photos just POP on the new design and I am loving…LOVING her articles! Click here to check it out!  

I love coupon blogging…mostly because I love online shopping, but also because I like sharing my “finds”.  Yesterday I wrote a “how-to” tutorial over at Squidoo sharing all of my deal-blogging secrets (including affiliate programs, WordPress resources, blogging tips & more). Head on over here to check it out and please feel free to share your own resources as well.

…so I revamped my website ahhhhhh-gain.  Consider it practice for the upcoming first-time, full-time gig…(since the kids were born anyway). The gig starts Wednesday (when my son starts school “full-time”). I think I’ll start with a little doodling, followed by some designing, followed by some blogging…but I’m mostly just going to miss the co-workers. …or maybe I’ll just design some [...]

Wow. What a morning. Jenna started Kindergarten today and I am still not sure what to think about it. Look at that grin! She couldn’t stop smiling all day…and she still is. Me…on the other hand – not so much. I’ve actually been looking forward to this day for weeks. It has been a long summer and trying to plan [...]

…pulled this from the archives of my family blog. It made me smile today. I am starting to realize that I could learn a lot from a 5 year old. I’ve always considered myself to be someone who delights in simple things…a stunning sunset, a quiet walk in the woods…an unusually calm restaurant meal with preschoolers… But sometimes, I forget [...]

“The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our [...]

Wonky is the best word I could come up with. I am updating the site as we speak and will have a full portfolio of my client-sites as well as some of my own. I’m also going to start designing more kids’ gear in the fall…so stay tuned.

I recently created a logo for a newly launched business “Sand Plum Crafts“.  I was playing with some of my favorite script-fonts and noticed that the “P” looked exactly like a plum (if you turn your head a little to the right, or left).  ;)  Wa-la! Click here to visit the Sand Plum Crafts website and enjoy the fun variety [...]

….another day, another website.  It’s funny how one thing leads to another…and than that thing, leads to the thing you I was thinking about earlier…which leads to another thing…(only better).  You are still following, right? So I am the ultimate cheapskate.  I love deals…so needless to say, I’ve been a little frenzied by the whole Groupon, Living Social thing.  So [...]

I’ve never been a big fan of simplicity.  I’m sort of an”over-the-top”, wacky, in-your face…sparkly sneakers type of chick.  That being said, sometimes *simple* speaks volumes, especially when you are designing a site called, “Simply Family Magazine” – that partners with a photographer (Jana Graham) whose photographs are so stunning that they simply jump off of the page. So here’s [...]