I Have The Most Adorable Grandchildren!...

Awww....

And Eeeeee!

Thanks Whit and Aaron!

Suddenly my family is just multiplying like rabbits!

But isn't "he" just absolutely gorgeous?!!!

...or do EPT's come in pink too?...

Two...

I have two wonderful sisters

Two ex-husbands

Two dads

Two computers

Two cats

Two jobs

A two car garage

A two story house

Two lawn mowers

Two beautiful daughters

Two amazing sons-in-law

An adorable granddaughter... who's two

And another one on the way (courtesy of daughter number two)

who has two very cute feet...



And one very perfectly perfect little nose...



I am two lucky!

My Graphically Designed Summer... part Two

So this is how it went down.

I had this idea all planned out about how to demonstrate the 5 major elements of Design...

Emphasis
Balance
Sequence
Unity
Proportion


I even took last Thursday off from work as "vacation" day to work on it. That was the day of that major downpour and thunderstorms for any of you who live around me may remember. Anyway, just as a reminder to anyone within the sound of my voice, please do not ever forget to "save your work" as you're going along. Yes, that is exactly what did not happen in my case...

So after the electricity came back on I decided to completely dump the old idea... and come up with a new one.

Which I think turned out better than the first one would have anyway...

Here goes: (clickable)

Emphasis


Balance

Sequence


Proportion (The Golden Triangle... and my personal favorite that began as one.red.umbrella and resulted in a ton of recoloring, resizing and rotating.)


And this one that I completely and utterly ripped right off of the Internet.. but somehow managed to make it my own anyway...

Unity


Oh yes, and I got some extra credit for this one. The totally under rated element of... Surprise.

...which I totally ripped off of the Internet as well.

My Graphically Designed Summer... part One

Seriously, I have so been dreading this. Not that I don't like doing it and I do it all the time anyway, but 2 nights a week until 10 pm when I HAVE to do it is a little bit tough.

That being said...

Our first assignment was to help our professor put a name to a face and to give him an idea of our proficiency in the following applications...

PhotoShop
InDesign
Illustrator
Dreamweaver
Adobe Acrobat
Apple OS X

Not necessarily in that order (except it just so happens that that's pretty much MY order.)

Ok, so anyway... Voila!... My first assignment.



If nothing else, I am now a fairly proficient PhotoShop bubble maker...

My Inner "Fangirl" Is Finally Back!!!...

Who'd have ever thought? (!!!)

Sorry... This preview version has been deleted because the full length version is now HERE.

My First "Professional" Gig *g*

Ok... so this was fun.

I work for a bank (which shall remain nameless...)

But anyway, we have this BIG celebration... on 5/3 of every year...

This year, the overall goal of the bank has been for each department/area/affiliate to refrain from working in silos and to become "ONE BANK" to meet our customer's needs.

So anyway... our affiliate, being the West Michigan one, (or me... I seriously can't remember)... came up with this silly idea of doing a music video set to Bob Marley's tune of "One Love."

And as silly as it may seem, it really ended up being pretty amazing overall!

Each department in our Operations Center was given exactly ONE day to learn the words to the music and THEN given only a 5 minute (one chance shot) to record it. We did this whole thing in about 2 hours!

Fun stuff! And corny? You betcha! But this all happened somehow seamlessly during our lunch hour. There's something to be said about teamwork!

And then I had the fun challenge of editing it... which was actually pretty easy since there ended up being MORE than enough material to work with!

Wow, It's April Already!

Seriously... I had no intention of neglecting my blog for this long! And I'm sure that all my avid and loyal readers have just been waiting with bated breath...

But this winter went by for me really quickly! Huge projects will tend to do that to you.

Ok, so this is the first thing I've posted since I got my Mac and I have to admit everything feels a little bit weird. Just saving pictures to post has been a major challenge! But I did manage (somehow) to get this screencap which features all the iDVD files that I've been working on ever since the snow began to fly. I think I only have one or two left to do!



My children's entire young lives captured in that one little screencap...

I hope they'll be excited...