Motivate

So it's less than a month away from my 28th Birthday which has got me thinking. I had a spark of inspiration right before Christmas for a little project I would like to try. I'm going to be intentionally vague about this until I get more of the pieces of the project put together, but would like to share my little motivation poster I made for myself. It's a question I want to pose to myself every day in hopes that every day I will do at least some small task with the end goal of this project in mind. A daily motivator and reminder to myself to keep focused and get in gear these next two years. Let's hope it's the kind of motivation I need to get this train rolling.

Positivity

This one is for my husband. Lately we've been talking a lot about goals and what we want to be when we "grow up" so keeping a positive mindset has been essential. I am trying to be more reflective on a daily basis of what I am grateful for. I am so grateful for us. We seem keep each other motivated and positive. I don't know where I would be without his unconditional love and support. And his fantastic ability to make me laugh and smile pretty much all of the time. Yay!

Freedom or Stuff?

This design exercise was inspired by this blog post from The Simple Dollar. I know it's been awhile especially since most of my last posts were about wedding stuff. I will post final pictures of my wedding craftiness in action - promise. I just haven't gotten to it yet. I think this post especially got to me today because of all the things that come with throwing a big wedding celebration. We have amazing friends and family who were beyond generous so there are lots of new items in the house and a good chunk of extra money in the bank. After all that I think this is a good reminder for us to keep a level head and remember what we are spending money and why we are spending. I follow the Simple Dollar in my google reader feed and really enjoy it. Thanks for all the great content Trent!

Random Sketch Project

Just a quick post of a random work project. It's strange the things you end up doing on staff when your the only in-house graphic designer for a financial firm. I liked how the illustration came out so I thought I'd share.

Long Time!

Every few months I try to come back to this thing. I really need to post more and I do apologize to the few of you that have been paying attention. My blog is totally weak sauce and I can't believe I've barely made any posts for all of 2009. Weak sauce to the max my friends. I guess I'm making my new years resolution early: Post weekly on the blog.

Maybe I had way to high of hopes from the beginning, I tend to overextend myself. So here goes....again. My post today is a little typography exercise. I recall when I was in grade school around Thanksgiving time there was usually some assignment about writing or expressing what your thankful for. This is my adult take on that notion. I'm a bit early for the holiday but it is only a week away! In addition I'm really enjoying the fact that the "thanks" kind of reminds me of that awesome 7 layer jello people make for the holidays...YUM.

Vote

Well it's that time of 4 years again. My inspiration for this post is the election. Tomorrow we decide who gets to be in charge of the US for the next four years. My hope for this election is record voter turnout - I feel for the first time since I've been able to vote that people are truly involved and interested in this election. No matter what side of the fence you are on go out and do your civic duty - VOTE!

Some technical details: I did most of the layout in Illustrator then brought it into Photoshop to mess around with some texture brushes. I was hoping not to completely over do it with the texture since grungy textures are on the trendy side.