During the month of September, I started designing again.  I haven’t “designed” in a very very long time.  I wasn’t planning on going anywhere specifically with my playing just wanted to design and hopefully get some mojo back.  I came away with several new fall papers (a couple of packs are selling at KV for only $1.00) – not sure if they really coordinate – but I was happy with them.   Of those new papers, I decided to share two of the them as freebies today.

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I’m also giving away a sample word frame.  Other frames like this are up in the KV store selling a group of 6 for a $1.00.

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If you download anything, please leave me a comment so I know if I’m on the right track again.

Thanks and enjoy!

I think I’ve been found out… by myself?…hmmm

Today’s Horoscope

You’ve decided to blow the whistle on yourself, Jen! All of a sudden, it’s obvious that you’re not performing as well as you should be. It is time to put the legendary Capricorn self-discipline to work. You may change your work methods, budget your money more carefully, or diversify your activities. Perhaps you’ll reorganize your team at work. All sorts of solutions are available to you.

Yes.  It’s called procrastination and laziness… two of my most favorite words in the world.  lol!

I think I like this one better.

Honor your contract with yourself. Respect your own desires.

Yes.  I need to respect my own desires more.  I know I do.  It seems like the universe is trying to tell me it is time for a change.

Working on some new layouts for Scrapblog. We uploaded new Kristy Valshan content recently but have no layouts using any of it. This was the first one I did using a lot of the pieces from Eccentric.  This is an older layout reworked especially for Scrapblog. If you are a Scrapblog user, search for either Kristy Valshan or Eccentric to find all the pieces.

And… I just love that song! Always have…

I created a Desktop Wallpaper Calendar for the month of October 2009.  I’ve never done this before.  I think it came out pretty cool.  I have two different versions – one as a JPG without the frame and one as a PNG with the frame. With the PNG, you can add your own photos underneath and resave it.

Here is what my desktop looks like

Download the correct size for your screen or iphone. Just click the download link and RIGHT CLICK – SAVE AS and save the image to your own computer.

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Came across this quote this morning and thought I’d share…

I was playing with my husband’s iphone last night to see what apps he had installed.  I noticed he had the Sci-Fi Wire app installed that displays the latest in SciFi news.  So I of course clicked it. :)  The very first post I saw was 17 amazing sci-fi themed cakes… WOW!  Some of these are really cool… well all of them are really cool.. but some are REALLY intricate… wow…  My three favorites are

The Death Star

The Borg

And Minias Tirith

Check them all out at 17 amazing sci-fi themed cakes.

A new blog design has been LONG overdue… This time around I decided to really “design” something instead of my usual boring basic blog design.

I spent about 2-3 weeks creating the design in Photoshop.  I worked on it here and there.  I think it came out pretty nice.  After that, I spent about a week or so coding it – on and off.  In the past, I would usually find a free word press theme that I liked and tweak the code/design of that theme.  This time, I started with a completely blank wordpress design.

I came across a post on wordpress frameworks on Smashing Magazine.  I downloaded about 7-8 of them and took a look at the code to see which was more my style.  I ended up using one of Anna Linea’s frameworks as my starting point.  Along the way I learned some new coding tricks – and some old tricks that have been around for awhile but I was ignorant of.  I find that I like “designing” as much as I like “coding”.  It’s been so long since I’ve done both and I definitely enjoyed myself.

So what you now see is my “final” product.  I didn’t bother doing any cross browser checking so I have no clue how this looks in older browsers.  Hopefully not too bad.