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Old book smells & animal art

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Yesterday I was excited to received one of my latest purchases from eBay, the 26th ANNUAL OF ADVERTISING ART, 1947. I had barely made a tear in the packaging when I smelled that scent… that old, in-the-basement smell of stored books. You know what I mean, right? As I tore the wrapping off I inhaled deeper, “ahhhhh, just what I was waiting for” and of course I got all excited!  Hubby always asks me “What did you get that for?” Well geeez dude, I love to look at it. What does anyone buy books for? Silly. Great ads abound inside that book, not to mention a piece of history when they used dexadrine and cocaine (in Coca-Cola) for additives in every day items, such as in this Paul Rand ad.

Speaking of art, I’m looking forward to visiting the Tory Folliard Gallery for a new exhibit called When Animals Talk

I just wish my art touring buddy was going to be with me. Actually we’ll be taking a road trip down to vist Jennie & Brian soon. Can’t wait!

Flash Dance & the end of good fonts

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This little number is a teeny-tiny preview of what’s to come from the awesome photographers that Jennie had for her wedding.jen & brian

The photographers, Whitney & Jesse, were so wonderful & fun & accommodating. I wish I could hire them to spend a week in my life, and just take a bunch of photos whenever I wanted them to. Sort of a documentary of my life—in pictures… umm, that would be pretty damn exciting come to think of it. A web cam sitting on top of my monitor could do the thing. Yup, my life. At the desk. Silly me. Not that I’m complaining, not at all. I like my life and I like my desk. There just wouldn’t be a lot of action shots, ya know?

What I was going to say about fonts, I don’t think there’s a font out there that I need anymore. Oh, of course I don’t have ALL of the fonts that I ever ever wanted, but there’s nothing *new* anymore, know what I mean? I was looking around for the font that I want to use on the redo of FMG, but I’m really not sure of what I want to do. Maybe when I have a better idea of the direction I’m going with the site, I’ll know, but until then… nada. There’s one font that I was in love with and purchased, but I have never ever used on ANYthing and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it used anywhere else either. That would be the most logical… but it’s pretty specialized… I’ll think about it and let you know, k?

I’m currently designing a web site for a song writer who wants his mp3s on the site for both listening to and downloading, AND, he said the magic words regarding the design—”Do anything you want, the more creative and weird you can make it, the better!” Ooooo, fun. But you know what? Sometimes that can be more difficult. It’s like creative overload! More decisions, more options, more difficult to decide, ya know? Sometimes that can be paralyzing for me—the deciding part. I just have to go with my gut feeling and stick with it. I have a tendency to try too many different things, and that can waste time, especially with me.

4 more days until the Woodstock Anniversary!

Redesigning my web site

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It really takes more time & thought to redesign my own web site than any others. Probably because I’m more critical of myself and what I do to represent myself than how I feel otherwise, ya know? Plus, I need to feel totally satisfied with it so that I don’t have to do it again anytime in the near future.

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FullMoon Graphics has gone through a handful of revisions over the years (about 5 versions in 12 yrs…). I think the teal, retro-ish kitty was my fav. And it’s looking a little worn out & dusty to me… heck, the present design is from 2004! whoa. No wonder I’m sick of it!

It will take awhile. I recently made a vow to myself to take more time out to tend to my own needs instead of working practically ’round the clock… and getting burnt out & less efficient. duh. *light bulb moment*

So ya. I have a tiny seed of an idea that I’m going to play around with… but I will guarantee that I will do my best to not look like a million other designs out there, k?

Beaded curtains, ooo-la-la

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Kitty OfficeOooo, ooo, I just had a blinding idea—literally! One of my office windows is above me and to the right, facing west. In the afternoon, the sun gets pretty bright (and hot) when it’s directly on top of me. Sooo, what I thought would be really cool(er) is to hang some sort of beaded curtain… one that would still let the air blow around & in & out, as well as allow the light in, just not blinding sun beams in my face (yes, I know I may be deserving of the ethereal glow/halo, but it does get pretty warm).

And I’m sooo excited because there are mucho web sites that sell such things, more shapes & colors & glittery-goodness than I could imagine! Yippeee! Yes, I imagine certain styles may reflect even more light, but can you just picture how colorful & reflective they would be? Now I just have to decide which ones to get.

But later… must finish working… yes, later. See how I get off on tangents??

**couple days later here**
I think I’ve found the ones I want , but they’re out of stock (of course). Will have some in a week or so… And they’re really easy to cut & make them thicker, more dense. Look how easy… yippeee!