positive pointing #33: untraditional!

I'm am thankful for glorious color and outrageous ideas that enable "normal" to reinvent itself.

A rich lime green + white accents + a paper mache peacock + polka dot shower curtain + a blooming, striped trashcan. suddenly, the normal isn't normal anymore. It's not just a bathroom. It's the three dimensional equivalent to I-just-discovered-this-song-and-i-can't-get-enough-of-it. It's a tad of of the excitement you feel at the arrival gate of an airport, a tiny splash of christmas morning anticipation, a little of the happiness you get from mom-made blueberry pancakes on saturday morning and the pressing feeling that there is a heaven and this is a tiny piece of it.

I packaged Invisible Children

Grace, Sunday, Innocent and Rosaline

Invisible Children Logo

Each case had the child's name attatched to a piece of rope that was..

connected to their story inside.

postive pointing #32: discovery

This poster is for a favorite band of mine, Boister. (I did not design it but I'd like to know who did!) I keep a running file of surprising, inspiring design ideas on my laptop desktop for moments of creative dryness.I found and snagged this from the internet because I was struck by all the designs rules it seems to break. breaking rules is fun.

for example:

rule#32 mixing bright colors with pastels never works out well.

rule #27 a perfect row of circles isn't a good idea.

rule # 15 Lime green should never be used.

rule #64 all truly great designs have an incredibly minimal color palette.

I'm am so thankful when I am proven wrong in my design judgements,
cause it keeps me curious and invigorated.

such a wellspring of visual wonder out there. never ending.
keeps my booty dancin.

Chalice Visits II

she got her nose pierced. i think it's pretty.

taking photos through mirrors without using the viewfinder is HARD.
this is about the 55th shot.

working late in the evening. empty shop. borrowed killer camera.

mommy and son. both blondies!

my sweeties.

Chalice Visits!!

chalice by my side. where she should be. :)


Took Chali with me to meet Stef at Wash Park and have some yummy lunch with her and the little dude.
she's a wonderful friend. I'm blessed to have her here in CO with me.

please click to enlarge above photo and see just how adoring chalice's face is. it's presh.

babies are just so holdable.
look at his little face!

we are sisters. and we really like each other.

more coming......

better packaging makes yummier hot cocoa.

^^dazzling. i know.

my redesign.

positive pointing #31

Tonight I have to write a research paper
My brain feels very scrumpled.
I have to string words, paragraphs and pages together
logically. beautifully. intelligently.

My mind feels like a cryptic bundle of ugly.

It's disheartening
but strangely invigorating.

There is nothing quite like last-minute papers
to send me flying around like there's the world to save
and sleeping like I've done just that.

I thankful for a busy life.
for deadlines and workshifts
and closing times and budgets
because they keep me blazing forward
and feeling glowingly victorious on friday afternoons

and savoring my nothing moments.