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Octopus for hire

Meg — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:00:50 +0000

I’m in love with this simple little design/illustration that’s up to vote on Threadless. It doesn’t help that I feel this way about trying to find a graphic design job >.<

Vote for this design to become a shirt here!

All the pretty colors

Meg — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:37:16 +0000

These have been my favorite colors for the past 6+ months. I especially love the blues! The orange is only secondary, and it helps the blue pop! You can tell that I really dig these colors just by looking at the colors on my blog. I was thinking of making one or two of the wall in my office the middle color blue and then accent it with orange with in the room. It would make the room more attractive and fun.

For color inspiration I go to kuler, thank you graphic design teacher. Its a simple way to get colors together to see what they would look like. They also have users putting together pallets for others to see. I prefer this website over other color pallettes sites because it gives you a lot of customizing options when others don’t. Its interesting that the first two highest rated pallettes are quite similar to each other. I wonder what that says about us and what colors we like.

Blackcurrant Birds

Friends and Foes

Love for Bugs and Monsters

Meg — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:15:20 +0000

I was looking around Etsy last night and felt that I had to share some finds from Bugs and Monsters. This seller makes all kinds of things, but I like the mugs the most. The seller hand paints mugs from thrift stores with original designs. What a cool way to recycle and make art!

Bumble Bee Mugs – set of two $36

Major Teacup – Mr. Teddy $12

ModCloth Favs

Meg — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:53:26 +0000

Here are 5 of my favorites from ModCloth in no particular order.

Marine Life of the Party Necklace $11.99

Puddle Partners Print $19.99

Peas Pass the Salt and Pepper Shakers

Out of Stock! – $21.99

To Have and to Hold Wallet $21.99

Couldn’t Flask for More in Squid $29.99

photos are up!

Meg — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:03:22 +0000

It has been a busy two weeks! Here are some photos of my adventures.

Maker Faire was awesome! so many things to see, almost needed two days to see it all. You can see all of the Maker Faire photos on Flicker, just follow this LINK. And yes, we saw Adam Savage!

Then I graduated. All of my family and some friends came up to see the ceremony. The ceremony its self was a bit long, but the key note speaker was pretty good. Even though it was on the morning the weather felt really hot! See more photos HERE!

Last but not least is Fanime. I didn’t take as many photos as I normally do, probably because I just wanted to enjoy the con. There were plenty of really good cosplayers. Tim got his wall scroll and I got m BAAU Down book making us quite happy! Check out just a tad more photos HERE.

Gotta love Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’?

Meg — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:43:44 +0000

Video Games | HAWP | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

If you haven’t watched Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’? yet, you must watch them now! They are funny, especially if you watch them all together consecutively. This one happens to be my personal favorite because of my love for Joss Whedon’s brilliant mind and making awesome tv/internet shows. On that note boooooo Fox for not continuing Dollhouse! I think I might boycott them for canceling Firefly and Dollhouse.

An Education

Meg — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:53:41 +0000

This is the movie for Fall that I want to see. I love the idea of a coming to age British girl in the 1960′s with one of my favorite actors, Peter Saggard comes to sweep her off her feet. The 16 year old girl develop a dilemma of whether or not to go to Oxford or going to Pairs to have fun. This movie looks like it will question what an education is, book smart versus street smart, especially for a girl trying to go to college in the 1960′s. She asks, What is out there for me after school?

I am highly anticipating this movie. I will do a full review of the film after I have watched it. Who knows I might change my mind and hate it after I see it, I hope not.

Cha Cha

Meg — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:30:35 +0000

Recently Tim and I have been leaning in to teas. . . more Tim than I. He has always had an interested in them due to Kevin Rose on Digg. For our 5 year anniversary I went to Teavana in the mall and got him the perfect tea maker along with some flavored tea. A mix of Hazelnut Dolce rooibos tea and MartVana herbal tea, its a good mix but I recommend it on a cold rainy day. We got burned out the tea fast in the middle of summer. We liked the “perfect tea maker” even though the easy cleaning is not so easy.

We got up the courage to buy something at Lupica, also a lose tea store in the mall . We had been in many times but never got anything, we would just stand in aww at it all, with the occasional droll showing.

To say the least we can’t seem to stop drink tea. There is no such thing as coffee anymore. We even picked up an electrical water kettle and we go through 5 gallons of water so fast!

Our first purchases from Lupicia were:

Matcha Kirara Rice Tea – perfect breakfast tea, matcha give an extra boost, the rice give it nice favor, good hot or cold. A fav! We are already on our 3rd bag.

Strawberry – made with black tea, just recently found out it is much better cold than hot, not a favorite, but we’ll drink it

Golden Honey Dew- with rooibos (red tea), sweet , decaffeinated (evening tea). My personal favorite so far. Smells oh so good.

I heart Sockington!

Meg — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:38:54 +0000

I just started following Sockington a cute and imaginative house cat twitter and I cant get enough.Now even people who are allergic to cats can follow on around. With posts like:

SQUIRREL IN YARD we both know this yard is not big enough for both of us so I will glare from this window until you make the right choice

well hello there hey stop looking OH A STARING CONTEST IS IT okay it’s on STARE STARE STARE STARE STARE STARE ha ha fatty has watery eyes

An here is the latest video from Sockington show that they have over a million followers on twitter:

Socks Army One Million Strong from Jason Scott on Vimeo.

Meg — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:43:02 +0000

Goldfish Turn On by onewayprophet

Just a cute concept for a vecor art, he/she used illustrator cs3!