A day in the life

After reading this post on Design for Mankind about a day in the life of artist Kris Atomic, my partner in blogging Meaghan and I decided to do our own "day in the life" type posts.Mine is sans pictures, but I tried to keep it amusing. So here you are, a day in the life of me. Enjoy ;)6:45am – the alarm went off and I jerked awake reading it as 7:45am which meant I had 15 minutes before when I like to leave the house for work. I interrogated a half asleep champ about his alarm and then realized that it was my alarm going off for the first time not 12 snoozes after the fact. Relieved I went back to sleep.7:37am – finally drug self out of bed with 23 minutes to get ready and absolutely no motivation to rush. Whatever.7:40ish – half asleep in the shower and bit of the ceiling popcorn cover or...

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Earth Day!

Do you remember Earth Day when you were younger? I do. I had that distinct opportunity of growing up in the 90s when Earth Day got its revival. It was a big deal in middle school. We had events planned, we looked forward to it. It was a really good opportunity for me to wear my "they were here first" t-shirt with a bunch of endangered animals sitting on top of a globe. I loved that shirt. I wanted nothing more than to be a super tree hugging hippie. I wanted a compost pile and I drove my family into crazy recycling. I think the best part is that my parents still recycle everything: glass, paper, cardboard etc etc. My dad was already a big re-user prior to their crazy daughter getting on a soapbox, but they really took that home. I think it...

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disconnected to be more connected?

I consider it a completely depressing morning to sign on and see no one online that I'm aching to talk to. Like today, one friend's already at home and sleeping from working midnights, another isn't visible or isn't online which either means she's still on vacation or she's busy at work from her vacation. One's at work, three more are getting ready for finals. One or two are probably still asleep. So now my buddy list looks like a collection of friends from school I rarely talk to and an ex-boyfriend who I'd rather not talk to. It's sad how much of my life gets sucked into this internet. I have true friendships online, and I've reconnected with friends online. I'm rarely on facebook, even though I still have an account (no Farmville for me), I don't play WoW. I think my biggest time suck on...

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Ahh! Real Monsters!

More fun had with the April Commit2Paper kit!I got these TOO CUTE monster stamps and just had to use them. ASAP. Like as soon as I bought them used them. What do you think? Too cute for words? Y...

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just playing along

A few of the blogs I read have been passing around little meme's where you fill out info about yourself. I figured it couldn't hurt to play along (since I don't have photos of the cards I made last night to post yet). List 10 things that make you happy and 5 bits of trivia about yourself. hmm 10 things that make me happy...1. A google reader with more than 10 posts to read and a gdocs with at least three updates2. being lazy on a sunday with Champ3. Good food + good friends4. Cheesy movies (ranging from kid movies to silly romantic comedies)5. a good song on in the car right before you get where you're going6. warm sunshine through an open window of a car7. new artsy supplies (even new adhesive makes me happy)8. hugs9. anything involving one of my best girlfriends. 10. shopping successfully...

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Forward by Moving Backward

I think sometime about my senior year in high school when the "bootcut" style jean finally came out I swore to myself I'd never buy a pair of wide leg jeans again. Somewhere in the early 90's about the same time Saved by the Bell went off the air, I swore the same thing about anything with paint splatters on it. Never would I wear clothes with paint on them unless I'd gotten the paint on them while painting. This weekend I bought both. While at Old Navy I ended up buying a pair of "weekender" style jeans, which essentially look like I stole Champ's pants. (That is if you ignore the fact that I can't wear his jeans nor would they be loose if I did.) They've got blue and white paint along the sides which sort of look like I might have wiped my hands off on them at some point. I also bought a...

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More Layouts!!

I've been tearing through this Commit2Paper kit for April. Seriously you're gonna love it. Lately I've been trying to do more challenge blogs, helping with inspiration and the like. Mostly I've found myself trying out sketches, and so far so good. This layout was done using the Pencil Lines #180 sketch. I always find using sketches amusing because they never come out looking the same. This was done using the Sketch Inspiration Sketch from last week. Again, I swear I started with the same one as everyone else. Last but not least I did this card with the sketch from Inspirational Card Sketches. Thanks for lookin...

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New Ink

I finally got out and got my new ink. I'd been tossing a few ideas around, two different phrases I wanted, one that would be added to my lower back tattoo, the other would be along my ribcage. I was pretty set on the lower back work, but I spent weeks trying to find the right font, to no avail. Everything looked good, but not great.Giving in, I went with the tat on my ribcage, because I knew how I wanted that to look. Although the idea was to do something less memorial, more for me, I think it still worked out well.The phrase is partially from the Sugarland song "Take Me as I Am" (click for link for a bad fan video with the song):Yea he's yelling about my tattoosbut we all live with the scars we choosethey might hurt like hellbut they all make...

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