New portfolio piece

I just delivered these business cards to a new client. His logo was clean so they were a lot of fun to design. I had them printed at Will Copy & Print in San Diego. They did a beautiful job as usual.

I am putting them in my portfolio. I really like them.

Christmas light extravaganza

If you live anywhere near Temecula, California you should go see the light display at our friends' home. They begin planning in June and the show is fantastic. Perfectly timed to your favorite Christmas carols, the lights flash on and off, run up the side of the hill and just generally light the entire neighborhood. This year they have over 43,000 lights.

43,000!

You drive up, tune your radio to FM 105.5 and enjoy the amazing spectacle. It's truly a sight to be seen this Christmas season!

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Visit www.socalchristmas.com for directions and more information.

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Certainly a good gift

This ring is freaking awesome!

If a certain husband were to get a certain wife a present for a certain upcoming holiday, this would be a good choice.

Designed by Terrence Kelleman, it has "three nickel-plated magnetic arches and four opalescent magnetic jewel spacers in pink, blue, magenta and lime."

I found it at the MoMA store, a place that has a certain significance between a certain husband and a certain wife.

And it's most certainly only 30 bucks.

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Jeweled Magnetic Ring, here.

Just don't tell my husband

Projects come in and finished pieces go out. I love it when I land a new client or get a new project from an established client. I never thought I would enjoy freelance design work. I don't know why I thought I wouldn't like it, maybe it was a confidence issue or maybe I thought I wouldn't be able to find enough clients locally. Whatever the reason, I'm glad it didn't completely paralyze me.

I was slow to find clients in the beginning. A friend led me to my first client and that one contract lasted nearly six months, not because it was supposed to but because I was getting my feet wet and he was incredibly busy. I had one or two other contracts during that time period. Slowly more jobs started appearing, an old friend from college needed a logo for her husband's landscaping business, my uncle needed a price sheet for his photo lab and so on.

Now jobs arrive at a steady pace, so steady that I have to keep track of what's come in, what's gone out and who still needs to pay me. I am having such a good time with all of it that I want to do more. Every job is different and that makes everyday different and that keeps me motivated. So motivated that I want a MacBook so I can sit on the couch in the evening and do EVEN MORE WORK.

12 hours of rain

An unbelievable phenomenon happened today, it rained! Usually when drizzle is on the forecast the local TV meteorologists break out into StormWatch 2007. I don't think I watched any 'live' television yesterday to have been informed about the unusual deluge that planted itself over our house today.

Thomas found this little slug, apparently awakened by the wet weather, crawling up our sliding door this afternoon.