August, 2006

• Can I claim a deduction for an imaginary child? It occurred to me the other night as I tucked AJ into bed that we really should be getting something in return for our caring for this extra child. So here’s our typical day:

  7am AJ wakes up, yawns, stretches and says, “Mom, Annie wants magic lucky [...]

  Annie, get your gum

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  Going Pink & Getting Inspired

• it’s you who brightens the darkest sign you, the one with the straightest line soft and harsh, both traits you boast it’s the blind ones who will miss you most

  color

• !(nb)/images/archives/298.gif! As if I didn’t have enough going on, now I’m doing ANOTHER site redesign HERE. Sheesh. Oh wait, there’s more. It’s going to be pink (again) – AND – I’m going to bug all of you to go pink too! Okay, but it’s for a great cause. “Matthew Oliphant](http://usabilityworks.org/ is heading up “Pink for [...]

  Pink for October

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  Gardener

• I have an idea. Maybe you’ve had it too, maybe it’s out there already and I’m just clueless. I would love to have a search function, like Google Blog Search that will search by category. So… I could go and search all design blogs or all religion blogs, or knitting blogs, whatever, but it would [...]

  Needed: Blog Genre Search

• When I moved to Indiana 6 years ago I had a yard sale of all my junk back in California. I couldn’t believe how much stuff I’d been able to fit into my tiny bedroom at my parents’ house. There were journals and sketchbooks unused, CDs and floppys with one file on them, a few [...]

  Letting go of things – in life and in design

• I had some free time just now to actually play, which I never get to do. A friend was asking me how to make a bulleted list in basecamp and I pointed her toward the “Textile link](http://textism.com/tools/textile/ at the bottom of the page, when I realized I’ve never taken the time to see all that [...]

  Textile Tables

• For those unfamiliar with “Godly Creative People](http://godlycreatives.com, it is a community site I’ve been working with for almost a year now. I’ve recently moved it to a new address and restructured the site from scratch using “Wordpress](http://wordpress.org this time instead of “Drupal](http://drupal.org. I enjoyed getting to know Drupal and might still recommend it for certain [...]

  The new Godly Creative People

• !(nb)/images/archives/293.png! While the “web 2.0 buzz dies down](http://warpspire.com/journal/ia-usability/the-state-of-the-web-august-2006/, and “fashion is becoming more conservative](http://www.newyorkmetro.com/fashion/blog/2006/02/08/luca-luca-from-sexy-to-conservative/, we are beginning to see a more conservative set of colors coming for Fall. In fact, Pantone has just released their “Fashion Color Report](http://pantone.com/products/products.asp?idArticle=834&idArea=14 for the coming season, which boasts some rich neutrals like taupe, khaki, and mahogany.

  Personally, I’ve been happily [...]

  Pantone Report Fall 06

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  Look

• You know, I’ve always been aware of scams, being the internet-savvy gal I have to be in order to stay in business. I’m all over the Paypal and other bank scams, especially when it involves phishing. I’ve posted “about phishing and other fraud](http://nataliejost.com/articles/fraud before, but I never expected to be hit with this on the [...]

  Phone scam hits home