My New Space
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6 Jun 2009Wahoo! For Christmas, Bryan bought me this beautiful letterpress picture of the Salt Lake Temple. (Thank you Cameron Moll) Sadly though, it was a weird shape, so it wouldn’t fit into a standard frame and needed to be custom framed. Near our anniversary I decided it was time to get it framed and today we got it back and put it up. It looks amazing. After I got this wonderful picture, I knew that the theme of my office was going to be letters. So I created another poster to hang up that had letters in it (I wish that I could say that I arranged the letters to look cool like that myself, but it is the alphabet from a desktop wallpaper I found on ilovetypography.com). I also took an idea from Better Homes and Gardens to frame some scrapbook paper in my colors of choice to add some color pop to the frame cluster. Here it is:
We also rearranged the office just a little while ago to accommodate a new desk that we bought for Bryan. I love my new space. My desk is not looking right out the window, but when I turn I have a beautiful view of the park behind our house (before I had a wonderful view of the power lines and the church). Here’s where I was before:
Here’s my new workspace now with the great new pictures above it.
I kind of LOVE my new space. I think the pictures above the desk work so well. After I take the time to make Bryan’s desk look better, then I’ll post pictures of our whole office. Since both of us have our own computer and like our own space, we have two desks in our little office and it’s a little cramped, but I think we’ve done pretty good at making it look nice anyway.
Sometimes, I’m just so proud of my decorating skills…
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Some Projects
In: Design
24 May 2009Sometimes when I’m at home, I come upstairs to my computer and do that same thing at home that I do at work, design stuff. Lately, I have done some fun projects that I thought turned out pretty cute. So now you get to see them. See below for explanations of each of the pieces.
(Because some of the events that I designed invitations for, haven’t happened yet–and I don’t feel that it’s my place to post the dates and times on my blog for just anyone to go and crash the events–I have blurred out the dates. It wasn’t part of the design, but it’s probably safer since I’m not entirely sure who reads my blog.)
First: My friend at work is getting married soon and she asked me to design her wedding invites. She was great to work with, she knew exactly what she wanted them to look like. Her style was really simple and elegant. Because it was a wedding invite, there were a couple of pieces, the invite, the temple invite, the luncheon RSVP card and a map.
Second: Also for my friend who is getting married is a bridal shower invite. The girls at work are throwing it for her and asked me to help with the invitations. They wanted to do a lingerie party, so that was the theme of the invite. I did two different colors, pink (because it’s so Victoria Secret) and purple because she loves purple. We printed the purple ones, but I loved the vibrancy of the pink, so that’s what you get to see.
Third: Back in April, over spring break we had a Young Woman retreat. I made invites for our event that included the two day agenda and what the girls needed to bring. I designed it in one long sheet, but so that it could fold into three panels. I’ve shown the full view and the individual panels.
Enjoy!
(And, this is my 100th post! Happy 100th post to me. I’m not sure if this is the most exciting post for my 100th post, but it works, right? For how long I’ve had this blog, 100 posts isn’t really that many, but an exciting milestone, never the less.)
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3 Years
In: things i love
22 May 2009
Last Tuesday, Bryan and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary. Even though we didn’t do anything super exciting, I must post about it. We just went out to eat, and then to Target to buy a fan for our bedroom (and we found an awesome fan that has a remote, sadly though the remote didn’t work).
But, I am so happy that Bryan and I are married. I often think about how much I like being married to him. He is wonderful. I think I’ll keep him for a little bit.
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A Sad Day, Turned Happy
In: me| things i love
22 May 2009
These are my last three cookies, I took a picture as I was mourning
A while ago, my handsome handsome husband send me a link to an article with some horrible news: Mother’s Cookies were going out of business. You remember Mother’s Cookies? Pink and white with sprinkles shaped like circus animals? Yes. Those.
I have loved Mother’s Cookies for a long time. They are delicious, almost addictive. So when I found out, I bought a bag and have been keeping it safe ever since. But just a few days I ate the last cookies. As I was thinking about how sad it was that it was the last time that I was going to enjoy the deliciousness of those pink and white cookies, I decided to blog about my sadness.
And I found cause to rejoice!
While I was looking for a nice picture of Mother’s Cookies to post with the post, I found this wonderful article. Mother’s cookies are coming back! Hooray.
I found another article saying that they were coming back to the shelves soon, and someone on Facebook said they found some again. So now I must go to the grocery store and find some myself.
Happy Mother’s Day
In: things i love
11 May 2009
I’m a little bit late, but HAPPY MOTHER’S Day!
I was too busy celebrating all the wonderful mothers in my life yesterday to post, but still wanted to pay tribute here.
I have been truly blessed to have wonderful women in my life for as long as I can remember. I love my mom and am so thankful for all that she has done for me. I love my mother-in-law and am so glad that I married into such a great family. I’m thankful for my Grandmothers. I was blessed to be able to know 4 of them and still have 2 living and love their positive examples. I’ve also be so blessed to have amazing aunts on both sides of my family that I can look up to. Lately also, I have noticed the wonderful women in my ward, with and without children who are such amazing and strong women. I have had wonderful friends who have been so positive and uplifting in so many ways and have taught me so many things.
Thank you to all the women in my life. You will never know how much I have learned and grown from your examples.
So to all you mothers out there, young or old, married or unmarried, with children or without: Happy Mothers Day. And even though I’m not a mother yet, I’m so happy and thankful for a day to celebrate the divinity that I have in me to be a mother. The Lord has truly blessed women with a wonderful blessing to nurture, love and take care of those around us. And that is what we can celebrate not matter what stage of life we are in.
(The image is a Mother’s Day Bookmark I made. The bishopric in our ward asked me to help them out by making a mother’s day bookmark to give to the ladies in the ward with a cookie. I thought it turned out pretty and wanted to share it. Enjoy! Oh: also, the background is a really cute digital scrapbooking paper that I bought from scrapgirls.com. If you like digital scrapbooking they have lots of cute things.)
The Internet is a funny place. Because if the internet a lot of new words or acronyms turned words have entered into our vocabulary. Thing like: LOL, BRB, IDK and others (okay, I guess some of them came from texting too). Lately though I have been noticing some that I hate, (and yes, it is a strong word, but it is a true representation of how I feel about these words) and wish that people wouldn’t use them… Well a specific group of people shouldn’t use them.
Here’s a short list of some of the hated acronyms turned words:
OMG
SOL
BFE
LMAO
WTF
I just think that some of the people who use these “words” don’t understand what they actually mean. I’m pretty naive, but I know what they mean and deep down everyone else does too.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that no one should use these “words” (it would be better but everyone can choose). If you would normally say the phrase without editing it, then go ahead and say the acronym. I actually prefer that. But it makes me absolutely crazy when people who wouldn’t normally say the phrase without editing use these “words.” And don’t even try to say that to them it means, Oh My Gosh… No where in the whole world besides Utah Valley and Rexburg, would anyone even cosider that you were saying Oh My Gosh.
Isn’t it about avoiding the appearance of evil? If you don’t swear, then don’t use acronyms that are representative of swear words.
if you haven’t…
In: things i love
8 Apr 2009…then you should scroll down to the bottom right hand side of my page and push the button in the bottom of my sidebar that says, “Cornify.”
You’ll like it. I promise.
On this day…
In: me
7 Apr 2009two years ago: Something pretty big happened in my life. Something that changed my life and was something that I was looking forward to, and wanted so badly. But today, I didn’t even think about it. When I went to bed last night, I didn’t have a hard time sleeping, knowing that today was an anniversary of such an exciting day. This morning, when I woke up, I didn’t think of anything that I would do that would be extra fun to celebrate this anniversary. I didn’t even remember that this day was important at all.
You know who did remember though? My Grandpa Walker.
He is amazing. He has 9 kids and quite a number of grandkids, great grandkids and spouses of grandkids, but today, he remembered my exciting day and called me. (And he ALWAYS calls on my birthday, Bryan on his birthday… any special or important day. I can always count on him remembering and calling to wish me a happy day and tell me that he loves me. Grandpa, if you ever read this, I want you to know how much I love you and how much it means to me that you always remember the special and important days in my life… even if I don’t.)
He asked if I knew what happened on this day two years, ago.. and I thought, and thought. April 7… April 7… April 7, 2007…
OH! I graduated!
(That’s my wonderful Grandma and Grandpa Walker in the picture on the left of Bryan.) So it seems weird that it’s been two years. I’m so grateful for the experience that I had at BYU-Idaho and that I was able to attend and graduate. I would go back and do it again in a heartbeat (I can’t say I’d go back and do high school over again, but I would FOR SURE do college over again, it was FABULOUS!). So I am going to celebrate. I think I deserve some Phish Food. 
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General Conference
In: things i love
5 Apr 2009I love, love, love, LOVED General Conference this weekend. If you didn’t have the opportunity to see it this weekend, make sure to read the conference edition of the Ensign when it comes out. It was really WONDERFUL.
I wanted to share a few of my favorite quotes from Conference. Here they are:
- “You can’t do a Google search to gain a testimony,” Elder Ballard, Quorum of the Twelve
- “Fear and faith can not coexist. One will overcome the other,” Elder Cook, Quorum of the Twelve
- “Discipleship is not a spectator sport,” President Uchtdorf, 2nd Councilor in the First Presidency
- “I am a nobody… and if you ever forget it, the Lord will remind you instantly and it won’t be pleasant,” Elder Packer, Quorum of the Twelve (quoted by Elder Anderson)
- “Fear not; Be of good cheer. Our future is as bright as our faith,” President Monson, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- “You can’t be a lifesaver by looking like all the other swimmers on the beach,” Elder Oaks, Quorum of the Twelve
- “You are never lost when you can see the Temple,” Elder Stevenson, Quorum of the Seventy
- “… Decisions determine destiny,” President Monson (Quoted by Elder Teixeira, Quorum of the Seventy)
These are only a few of the wonderful things that I was able to hear and feel during this Conference and just wanted to share my testimony that I know that as we listen to Conference, if we go to the Lord with a question or thought in our heart, the Lord will answer our prayers through His prophets. There were so many times, that the talks were so personal and perfectly inline with my life, that I know the things they were saying are true. And I have a testimony that the Lord does know me personally and knows my deepest thoughts, feelings, heartbreaks, joys and loves. I am so thankful for this Church and the truth, joy and peace it brings to my life.
I’m turning this into a tag and I tag you all! Post on your blog at least 3 of your favorite quotes from Conference (and write in your journal at least 3 of your “to-dos” that you felt during Conference). Then leave a comment here and let me know that you posted. The Internet can be a wonderful blessing in our lives to spread the Gospel or a horrible trap to pull us into sin…Let’s use it for good!
We are Weird
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28 Mar 2009At work, we try monthly to do “designer outings.” These outings are designed to help us continue to build our creativity and get us out of the office to see design in other places or experience design in different ways. In the past we’ve done a couple of really fun outings. We did an alphabet picture scavenger hunt in downtown Salt Lake, we went to a museum, we watched “Helvetica” the movie and a couple of other fun things. They have been a great experience for us as a group of designers. I feel like we have learned a lot, and built a lot of friendship and trust among each other.
This month for our designer outing, we decided to stay in the office and play Photoshop Telephone. Here’s the rules of the way we played. We started with a stock photo image. We cropped it to 3 inches by 12 inches and passed it on to the first designer. He had to take the three inches of the photo and create continue it into a 12×12 inch piece of his own. As long as there was a smooth transition between the three inches you were given and your 12 inches you could do whatever you wanted. We each took 4 hours to fill our 12 inches and then at the end of the 4 hours, we cropped our image to 3 inches by 12 inches and passed our piece to the next designer in line. They then had to do the same thing and incorporate the 3 inches into theirs and add 12 inches to it. Does that make sense?
Anyway. It ws pretty exciting and we all had a great time. One of the great things about it was we could do whatever we wanted with our 12 inches, so in the end, each piece was an interesting insight to each of our different designers’ personalities. We named it, “Lo Specchio,” meaning The Mirror in some other language (I can’t remember which).
Anyway. It’s a pretty bizarre piece over all, and we have some weird designers, but that’s why I love it. Enjoy our masterpiece! (Click on the image for a bigger version)
(Andrea: try to guess who did each of the different sections. Eric, Ian, Ryan, Steve, Tracey and I participated).
Everyone, can you guess which part is mine?
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