Friday Favorites

Written on July 3, 2009 // Miscellaneous

Here are this week’s favorites. To American readers, have a fun (safe) holiday weekend!

For Purchase

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  1. Forever, Darling Dress
  2. MOO Slide Top Tin
  3. Lets Do Lunch Handbag by Borsa Bella
  4. cathrineholm Norway Yellow Lotus Casserole Dish

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  1. Herds in Red – Yardage
  2. Twins Napping Plaque
  3. Matching Notebook Set
  4. Toadstools v.2 – hand screen printed skinny quarter

For fun

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  1. Tiled Penny Floor
  2. DIY: Knot Trivet
  3. The Bright Side Project
  4. Beat My Price


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New Fabric on the Way

Written on July 2, 2009 // Design 2 Comments

Last night arrived a rather large shipment of fabric and I couldn’t wait to get it out of the box! Most of it was special orders for customers but some was for me to keep. Here’s a sneak peek of some of it I was able to get cut pressed and photo’d. There are still 6 more waiting in the wings!

Zig

Part of my French Country collection, Zig is quickly becoming my favorite! Here it is, in coral and seafoam. The coral is a bit of pink and pink/orange. The seafoam is slightly yellow (eggshell) with a light teal/seagreen. Gorgeous!

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Spring Picnic

There are two here you’ve seen, the white umbrellas and the orange chicks. The other two are new variations of the same patterns sold over at Above All Fabric.

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Pink Fire

Another one sold by Above All Fabric, Lani and Fancy Fish – they look exactly as I designed them too, and printing onto fabric something originally designed for paper, that’s amazing! These are pink, orange, and red on a tan backdrop with dark brown and white accents.

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Now, the last shipment was on my doorstep 3 days after I ordered (AWESOME), but I still say allow 2-3 weeks for your order just in case. Still, it’s looking like less than a week with these last few orders. I have 3 orders to package today, so if you ordered from me last week or this week, it should be in the mail tomorrow!


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Meet Monk

Some of you older readers may remember my short stint with Monk Development shortly before the twins came along. For new readers, here’s the basic story.

My Experience

Early 2007 I decided to take a freelance break and work full time and Monk hired me. A few weeks later I started acting kinda funny, like PMS moody spacey, couldn’t remember how to float a menu horizontally, just plain crazy. I actually cried during a conference call with my new boss, totally without a clue as to why I was behaving so loopy.

I was mortified really, but about a week later I went to the ER because I couldn’t hold down food/water, and they told me it was twins! Of course by this time I had held up a bit of production on some web sites because I literally couldn’t remember enough CSS to debug my own work, and if anyone asked me about it I’d break down in tears. I know, Crazy with a capital C.

So fast forward, obviously I stepped down and asked them to please hire someone else with more control of his/her faculties and I wished them the best, hoping not to set a bridge on fire. We’ve stayed in touch over the last two years and I’ve continually missed working for them, though my stay was short.

Today I want to mention them, partly because they’re so generous to sponsor my site this month (see ad to the right) and mostly because I meant to a long time ago and life got in the way.

What they do

Ekklesia 360 + Cloud Network

Monk builds dynamic websites for churches. But there’s more to that then fits in one sentence. Ekklesia 360 is the product they designed for churches to organize and display their information on their website. It’s a CMS (Content Management System) similar to your experience with Typepad, Wordpress, or Blogger, except that it’s designed specifically with churches in mind and it’s much more powerful.

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For example, another service they provide comes from Sermon Cloud, which is a place to find sermons. I use it myself for my own bible study, when I want to hear more about something than my own church and reading provide. What’s great for churches is that Ekklesia can take your church’s sermons and send them directly to Sermon Cloud every week for others to listen to across the world! It’s all a part of their Cloud Network (yep, there are more clouds).

Cobblestone Community Network

Cobblestone Community Network

Cobblestone is a new launch I haven’t experienced yet but looks to be incredible. In fact, as I’m writing this I have a draft set to send to my church to look into this. It’s a platform to boost your church’s community outreach by connecting small groups more easily, including connecting through Facebook.

Powerful small group assimilation tool. Do you have home groups by location? Age? Sex? Find out the people in your community who match and invite them! (see more photos)

And it all integrates with Ekklesia!

Anyway, check them out and send a note to your church to let them know about Monk Development if you think they can help.


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Journal Giveaway

Written on June 28, 2009 // Design

In case you missed it on Twitter today, The Bright Side Project is hosting me this week for a giveaway starting today. Answer a fun question for a chance to win one of two awesome new hard cover journals with my ultra new Zig pattern on the cover!

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Also, click over to see a discount code for all BSP readers for 15% my store through July!


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Freebie – Kitchen Printable Sampler

Written on June 28, 2009 // Design

It’s been awhile since I’ve had time to put together a freebie for you, but I’ve been working on a new download for my store and thought I’d grab a few pieces of it for you to sample.

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The download for purchase will be a set of printables in my Spring Picnic color scheme including:

  • 4×6 recipe cards in 4×6 and 8.5×11 formats
  • note cards (same as recipe cards but blank lined)
  • labels (6 sheets of 30 labels)
  • shopping list (the original Budgeteer(TM) shopping list!)

This free download will include one full page of note cards and one single 4×6 note card, plus two sheets of labels. The recipe cards are not included because I’m still working out some details with those and the shopping list, well, I’m sorry, you still need to pay a little something for that.

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Here’s a sample of how I’m using the labels! I found these little jars at Michael’s a few months ago for $0.50 each.

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Now when my groom asks me for some Aleve because he has a headache, no one has to dig around the medicine cabinet. These are displayed nice and pretty on the kitchen window sill. And child safety? These are tougher to get into than the store packaging! Happy Printing! :)


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