I heart Max

My younger sister had her third child this last Friday and for some reason I feel a special connection to the kid. I've only seen pictures at this point but he is so rad. It's inexplicable but the little guy feels like he'll be my buddy. I wish I could be the auntie that spoils him by buying him everything in the world he could possibly want, but all I have right now to give is me and it's motivation to make me the best me possible for him. Here's to you Max man. I'll be there to visit soon!

Emi is Rad.

I've spent the past few days in Tucson, Arizona with my sister and her little family. Ruth Ann has two little girls, Ella, who is 2 and Emi who is almost 6. Emi loves making art and doing "projects". She proclaimed recently that "I want to be just like Auntie Rachie when I grow up!" Unlike her auntie, Emi gets up very early and puts herself to work doing"projects" and creating.

When I come to visit, I usually stay on an inflatable mattress in the office/spare room. I'm not a morning person so, I've had to resort to locking the door as to avoid early morning visitors who can't understand why I'm not nearly as excited to see them at 6am. Emi has a hard time waiting for me to wake up, so she uses her creative abilities to entice me out my room and play.

When I woke up Sunday morning I saw this:

carefully placed underneath the bedroom door. Then there was this:


and these:


leading me to a weekend of fun with my nieces. Emi is so alive, creative and fun and if anything I want to be like her when I grow up.

P.S. I've been helping Emi start her own blog to share her art. It's a bit rough around the edges but I hope you enjoy her creativity as much as me and her mom do...

i discovered this on twitter

i've become a twitter junkie, i'm not gonna lie. i follow @shitweb which has links to some pretty "crappy" websites.... this is a keeper.... http://www.havenworks.com/

you're welcome.

all kinds of dust

so, in short i've come up short. i need to find about $1500 i wasn't expecting to put into the floor into the new grün location. i need to try and get open in time for the st. george art festival in april, which is held a block away from the new location.... so i've come up with a plan.... if i could get people i know to donate a just a single buck to the cause then i might be able to get it done, if not it'll be several more months before the space will be ready... so if you like grün even a little...spread the word... donate.

click on the link below and donate as much as you can...

any additional monies raised beyond the amount needed for the floor, will be donated to women in business pay it forward i say.

there will be more information and a tabulation of how much money has been collected on the grün website and the grün blog.

pardon the dust

i'm just experimenting with some of my new css skills....i'm slowly figuring things out....

a new pic

so, um. my friend krista and her husband zach took a picture or two for me.


me.


shep.
me and shep.

the pixie stix attains near perfection

so, i found these the other day:




all i can say is an entire package of only GREEN pixie stix?!! that's what i'm talking about. the only set back is that the flavor is cherry. i'm going to write mr. wonka and hopefully this can be easily remedied by changing it to lime, or apple or some other green flavor. i will have these as treats when i'm an old lady in a green house with a green pet, green clothes, green drinks...oh the dream is beginning to take shape.

arghhh...

that's all i got to say about that.

i am becoming a computer G.E..N..I.US!!!!!!

i always admired Data from the movie Goonies. sometimes his gadgets worked and other times they failed miserably (in form, not thought) ....but he is still pretty damn cool because he was always figuring out new ways to get crap done.

i've been taking my first college class since i graduated in 1997 and it has been a source of inspiration. it's web design programming course that teaches how to use technology that was even available when i was doing the dial-up thing at utah state.

i've been programming using css and figuring out how it all works again and as i have little successes, damn it makes me feel smart... then after having that sense of satisfaction, i think "hey, i can do that better, cause i'm awesome." so it leads to taking the energy (not necessarily time) to come up with a more creative solution for a design client....they like it, up i go another notch or two.... and then i have to guts to take some more daring adventures into business and leave fear behind...(okay, fear is still stuck to the bottom of my right shoe, but i'm hoping i can wear it down or scrape it off onto a curb pretty soon).

so maybe what i'm saying is just know that if you really want to begin doing new, cool stuff.... then do it.... period..... maybe with my new, larger brain capabilities i'll invent something to reverse global stupidity or something big ..the possibilites are endless hum...

new diggs.

meet 17 north main street. my new office/shop space.

could it be a metamorphosis?

all 5 of you... okay more like 2..of.. you.. may have noticed that my blog has changed a lot lately. not with new and exciting posts, but with a bunch of different attempts at creating my own design.

deciding on what form my blog will take is a whole lot of pressure. it's like trying to figure out what to wear down the red carpet without a stylist and then the kicker is that i happen to be a stylist, but i don't really trust my own style. how am i going to express me?

the past couple of years have been interesting a lot of ups and downs, mostly downs... but i think i've gone through some major changes. i'm not sure as of yet where i've ended up, but in the words of my niece emi..."she went through a metamorphosis!"and that is quite possibly true.

intervention?

i was doing a bit of tyding up today.... um, i might be in need of an intervention. at least i plan on some recycling. (yes, they're empty.)

Hoarder Dies After Becoming Lost in Maze of His Own Trash

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,477873,00.html

now that i've moved my office to my home, the temptation is to never ever leave again and to hoard random items and soda cans in order to create my own "lair"....

but just remember to check on me every now and then.