NaNoDrawMo 2009

I’m taking part in NaNoDrawMo 2009 – basd on NaNoWriMo, except that you draw 50 pictures instead of write 50,000 words.
Here’s the link to my NaNoDrawMo 2009 Flickr set, and here are some samples of what I’ve done so far…

The Mission Church of Boston site redesign

I’ve worked with PK of Imperial Consulting on several different projects. One of our recent projects was a site design for The Mission Church of Boston where I provided the site design and HTML/CSS and PK hooked in the content management system and other nifty back-end features.
PK IMed me this morning letting me know that [...]

Chickens!

For those of you who don’t follow my boring daily life personal blog, one of the big things this spring/summer is that we got chickens! We designed and built our own chicken coop after perusing lots of examples online, special-ordered some vaccinated chicks from a local feed store (an Australorp, Rhode Island Red, and Black [...]

Will design logo for iPhone

Or, My Fastest Logo Design Job Ever.
My coworker-friend-whom-I’ve-never-met-in-person, AKA SharePoint Queen herself, Heather Waterman, happened to ask me the other day if I wanted her old iPhone since she upgraded to a 3G. After finding out that it would impact us by $30/month for the data plan, I decided to go for it and asked [...]

Jam-making class

The Davis Food Co-op, a local food cooperative that I do most of my food shopping at, holds cooking classes which always look fun. I finally signed up for the jam-making class, lined up some last-minute babysitting, and went off for a fun experience!
I arrived at the teaching kitchen, which was a residential house across [...]

Baby related thoughts: One year later

This is the eigth of a series of posts on pregnancy, labor, birth, and being a new parent. See intro and full list.
Okay, technically it’s been over a year since Steven was born and only nine months since my last post in the Baby Related Thoughts series, but it sort of averages out to a [...]

Bad dream

I woke up this morning stressed out and angry from a bad dream.
I dreamed that someone had taken documents that I’d designed in Illustrator and “updated” them by printing out new information on slips of paper in Times New Roman and gluing them over the old information, then photocopying them.
Shudder.
Which reminds me of this xkcd [...]

Reading: Miscellania

Photo taken 6/29/09
The Stay-At-Home Survival Guide by Melissa Stanton – I’m not sure when your average stay-at-home moms would have time to read this book, but I found that it was really helpful to read it because the author eloquently expressed the angst and issues surrounding defining yourself as a stay-at-home mom: how other people [...]

Cheater’s char siu bao – Chinese BBQ pork steamed buns

I love Chinese BBQ pork steamed buns (as well as the baked version, which is like bread stuffed with tasty bits of meat with a sticky-sweet glaze on top). Since I know how to make steamed pork buns and I recently found a great recipe for homemade char siu, I thought I’d concoct my own [...]

Firstfruits

Our first cherry tomatoes of the season!