Laura and I have recently launched a new site called the FunPlace Database! This is a brand new resource designed by parents FOR parents to make it easy to find fun places to take your kids. We all need to get out of the house most days, but sometimes it’s just difficult to find places to take them! To celebrate the launch of the site, we’re having a great...

This summer has been rather slow for me with regards to design work, so I’ve had more time than usual to work on projects of my own. A friend emailed me at the beginning of July asking if I’d ever sold any artwork for digital stamps. I told her I really don’t draw well enough for anything I create to be called “artwork” and I...

Some of you may remember when I posted in December about the giant dollhouse project. At the time we had hoped to have it finished by Christmas, or soon thereafter. Well… it’s now March, and it’s finally finished! Thinking back at how naive we were to think we could have it finished by Christmas is rather amusing. We had no idea what this project...

…to the computer that is.  I sit here before Jack wakes up, when Jack takes a nap, after Jack goes to bed, and any time in between that I can squeeze in.  I have been staying up wayyyy past my bedtime.  It seems there are endless things to do now that I have the blogs I’m trying to “monetize”.  They are new and the more content I can get...

I’ve been visiting these work at home forums lately, and read things about people paying their house payments with their ad revenue from “pay per click” sources like Google Adsense, and I’m thinking, “I have got to get in on this game.” We feel strongly that I should stay home with Jack and not go back to work, but it can be hard...

I checked out some books from the library the other day about letterhead and logo design, and one of them had letterheads from 1850-1950.  I was inspired by the beautiful old-fashioned, engraved look with watercolor backgrounds and interesting color combinations.  Since I can’t leave things the same for long anyway, I decided to see if I could imitate the...