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• Car Envy

  There aren’t many cars that give me car envy. In fact, I don’t consider myself a car person, but when my husband sent me a link this morning about a new BMW concept car, I think I started to salivate.
  I know, it’s not attractive for a woman to salivate but seriously, check out the X6.

  Book [...]

  Posted on Sep 12.07 to asides, design   

• It’s in the Details

  One item on my ‘To-do” list has been to upload some favicons for my design space as well as the soon-to-be photo space of my husband, Studio 1.28.
  I had used an online generator before so I simply did a Google search and found it again. The site is called Dynamic Drive and they make creating [...]

  Posted on Sep 11.07 to design, web design   

• Mix: Portland’s New Food and Drink Magazine

  Have you seen it? If not, you are in for a treat. No pun intended.
  Mix is Portland’s new food and drink magazine published by The Oregonian. It The new glossy made its debut on Friday and is on shelves around Portland. According to The Oregonian’s Editors’ Blog, Mix can be found at various grocery stores [...]

  Posted on Sep 10.07 to food, oregon, photography, portland   

• Goodies from Satsuma Press at Crafty Wonderland

  I finally met Lynn Russell of Satsuma Press in the flesh yesterday at The Doug Fir.
  We had a meeting scheduled last week and I had a serious case of food poisoning so it wasn’t possible and instead I decided to check out Crafty Wonderland to meet her. I also had a hankering for the burgers [...]

  Posted on Sep 10.07 to crafts, friends, letterpress, oregon, portland   

• Testing a Polaroid 180 Land Camera

  Friday afternoon I received a phone call from a friend, Michael. He was calling from a camera shop.
  “Deb, there’s a Polaroid 180 Land Camera you should check out. It’s a sweet camera: manual focus; f4.5; takes 66 series Polaroid film (still around)… I’ll put it on hold for you!”
  Well, I went over there the next [...]

  Posted on Sep 09.07 to friends, photography, polaroid   

• Hello?

  When I was a kid, sometimes my dad would come home and we wouldn’t know it.
  Sounds strange but it happened.
  This isn’t quite like that but I’d love to hear from any of you who have been visiting. Seriously, I don’t bite I used to be a really shy kid. So shy that I couldn’t [...]

  Posted on Sep 07.07 to asides, blogging   

• Books for School

  In just a little over a week, classes will begin for Portland State University’s Multimedia Certificate Program.
  Wow. I’m nervous and excited. Anticipation is amazing.
  Here are some of the books that are included when you enroll and the others I bought out of curiosity.

  Beginning CSS: From Novice to Professional is the book I used to design [...]

  Posted on Sep 07.07 to classes, design, typography, web design   

• An Agency Goes Live and a Friend Wins an Award

  Well, I have to share this news because we’re not in Perpignan to celebrate with them and a little shameless promotion for friends is allowed yes? I’m all for tooting the horns for friends.
  So the first bit of news, courtesy of PDNPulse is that a new agency launches this week. The agency is called Noor [...]

  Posted on Sep 06.07 to friends, photographers, photography   

• Adventures in Gardening

  I got a wild hair to keep a separate blog about my adventures in gardening.
  It’s an attempt to simplify topics and figure out my path. There seems to be alot of paths these days and it’s a good thing.
  I’ve just started to gather my thoughts and do another install of Wordpress for the gardening blog. [...]

  Posted on Sep 06.07 to blogging, design, garden, wordpress