4 day stress package

I think if anyone were to think I sat on my booty and did nothing I would punch them in the face. There was a billing complication with one of the sites I designed so, as it was already down, we decided to switch servers, and if I'm switching servers, I should redesign it the way I want it... None of this is hard - if its planned. Without warning doing it all at once was a little stressful (especially because there was a lot of contacting other people for log ins and passwords that had been long forgotten)... >.<
I also got the commission for PasstheSushi.com's about me page and I was so excited I switched the theme for that site immediately.
As soon as I am done this post, I am shutting my computer off and playing fetch with my cat.

Quick Pic for the Week

This week has rocked. I did a ton of work on Scott Neely's site, finished the new code for Pass the Sushi, got a few commissions rolling, may have another job on the way, worked OT at my day to day and ordered my brand new spiffy camera (well, I hope its spiffy when it gets here). Super exciting!
Today's image started out as me going through a tutorial and then I threw it away half way through and decided to do what I wanted to it. Yellow really isn't my color of choice but I think it works well here. Either way, the red fiend in me was loving creating the background.
In the upcoming days I think I will be re-doing the main site, Silhouette Graphic, and adding a few things. I need to let people know I do headers for as low as $35 and ad a bit of spunk to the package - unless I get swamped with paying gigs. >.~

My head feels heavy.

If my mind is not in creative overdrive - I may truly be going insane. I'm at a point where I am so content with my life creativity is oozing from me (that makes it sound kind of gross). Between maintaining the sites I have for business, redesigning my own, wanting more sites, drawing, sewing, designing, cooking, and baking - I still want more! There are more ideas brewing in my brain and more energy and drive to do it! There are, however, not enough hours in the day and I do enjoy my sleep.

------------> The new layout (minus the important text like parts) for Passthesushi!

This week I am redesigning the Pass the Sushi blog - which has sparked more of a drive to redesign Silhouette Graphic. I am also trying to get into commenting more on peoples blogs. I'm more of the silent reader person. I must read a billion blogs but I do rarely comment. Which I am told has to change.
I'm also trying to make CBH a bigger better place (as are the rest of my brilliant co-workers). But I feel like I am biting off more then it is possible to chew at the moment. I want all of the members to be happy and I know some things are out of the question, but, I would love to step it up for them. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Snow days!

We're trapped under a mountain of snow. People are calling it snowmaggedon. Stores were wiped out of eggs, milk and bread as early as Tuesday. Really? It's snow people. Yes, we need to shovel and not drive like morons, but we will survive. The human race will prevail. And whose making that much french toast?
I breezed through a tutorial this morning so you would have something to look at. I'm still stuck in coding world on the inside of the Captain Blue Hen site where I just added a forum for the members. I also did a few minor changes to a restaurant site this week giving them a sidebar ad for Valentines Day.
There's more for this post, but I'm cutting it short as firefox is apparently under the weather. No pun intended. I'm off to enjoy my snow day.

Blogs would be so much cooler if you cared about the hidden semicolons

Without any images to show for it really, I have actually been very busy this week. Our Free Comic Book Day postcard is all set and ready to be sent to the printer and the main Captain Blue Hen site is being redone behind the scenes at our testing facility. I have also started playing with sliding page layouts at another test site and will hopefully have some wicked cool content for it soon if all goes well. In a few weeks I'll have some great materials for the site.
The next minor debate is whether or not to purchase a scanner. They have really come down in price so it wouldn't be a huge investment. Just something I'm contemplating.

Its January 28th. The blogs are being updated. The recipes are being tested. The graphics are being photoshoped. All is good so far. Hopefully, Ill sit down and kick out a tutorial tomorrow.

Photoshop Tutorial Fun

I love working through photoshop tutorials. I find them fun, mind numbing, and I love what I learn. Even if they are basic tutorials - like the images I have up today were from, just redoing the steps and practicing simple things I may have forgotten keeps you on your toes and gives you ideas of things you want to do in the future. These I made time to do this week, as I hope to keep making time to do in the future. Practice practice practice. Especially in the ever changing world of computers.



I know, brief post again, but I do have some projects coming up in a couple of weeks and have been working to maintain my other blogs as well so I hope to have more in depth stuff for you soon.

Blah - maybe its the weather.

Ive really not got much to say today. Im kinda stressing and annoyed, but I didn't want to fail on my new years resolution the first week of the year. Here are some doodles I did this week.