design spotlight: Little Laws Prints

About six months ago I redid the logo and stuff for my friend Kristen. She has a business where she sells custom prints, and invites, and party decor.  Basically all the cute paper things that we love to have.

So then I was all 'hey, wanna move to wordpress and self host and manage everything yourself'? And she was all 'TOTALLY'.

Poor girl. It took me forever because I did her site a good four times before I was happy with it. And I tried out four different shopping cart plugins, and then she was all 'HMM. I'm gonna redesign my logo and colors'.

It's so awesome. And it's finally finished.






Mind you, I take absolutely no credit for the logo.  She did that herself. I'm just the website lady.

Sidenote: if you need party invites, custom prints, stationery, or a super cute cell phone case? She's your girl.

You should totally check her out, and not just because you should go see how pretty I made her site.

blogger changes and grab buttons

Blogger likes to change things around, and this time it's led to the html code box for grab buttons being empty.

So. If I've designed your blog, and you notice that the box underneath your grab button is empty, feel free to send me an email so I can help you get it fixed.

It's not hard, so if you're html savvy, I can send you detailed instructions on exactly what to do so your code shows up again.

recently

I've been working like mad. So instead of trying to be all cute and write about these lovely ladies (they are, all...I've yet to have a single crappy client), I'm just posting their designs so I can get back to designing my sister's baby shower invite.

Blogger design

Blogger design

Wordpress self hosted

latest designs

I'm terribly behind on updating my portfolio. I'm trying to move all my Blogger sites to one wordpress site, but it's taking time because I'm so insanely busy with actual work.

I turned down a big project last week. I was shocked that I had to do it, but I couldn't handle the workload and all my current commitments. I was thrilled to pieces, though, that this little business has gotten to the point where I have so much work that I'm turning things away.

So. Thank you. I think I've been blessed with an amazing client base, and I can't explain how much I appreciate all the referrals and return business.

Latest Wordpress design:

Kelly @ Mama In The Burbs

Latest Blogger designs:


Kelsey at Thirtyish and Something

Ches at Time to Bee Focused

Megan at Beauty and Her Beast is a Beachbody coach, which is the company that puts out P90X, Body Pump (which is what I'm doing), and Insanity. Plus others. I LOOOOVE the beachbody programs. So if you're contemplating any of them? Get in touch with Megan. She's so helpful.

(and no, she didn't pay me to say that....I just like Beachbody)

Aileen at Sparkly and Sweet

design spotlight: Feb 2013

I like circles, a lot. You can do SO MUCH with them.

There's something about clean, basic geometric shapes that I find appealing, and so when I get people who say things like "I really like circles", I get kind of excited. 

Which doesn't say much for my social life, but whatever. I have four kids. My social life died back in 2003. 

(I also am starting to recognize fonts on commercials, and find myself talking to the television, being all 'OMG E! Network, I cannot believe you used THAT font".  Which just means that I've reached a pinnacle of absolute uncool. See also: I'm old.)

ANYWAY. 

A couple of recent designs for a couple of pretty awesome ladies. 

Kelsey at Lemons & Lemonade.

And Katie at Cleared for Takeoff. Who I've been following/reading for years. Two or three, I think.  I can't even remember, but I know it's been a long time.

status quo, for the moment

This site has been chilling for awhile, because I'm in the process of moving everything over to Wordpress.

Putting together my photography site, and my design site, to make one business, while keeping up with all the work going on and my family takes up quite a bit of time.

My point is. Bear with me, if you will. Everything on the site, information-wise, is still relevant, even if the blog posts themselves are boring and sporadic. It'll probably be at least a few months before I get it all pulled together.

design spotlight: this week

So I'm trying to figure out how to combine this website, and my photography site, to make one company. I've gotten busy enough with both that I feel like I need to condense my work life to it's more manageable.

Of course, trying to actually do it is another story. There's also the whole name thing. I'm REALLY, really bad with names and titles of things.

These are the things I'm contemplating these days.

Some designs I've recently finished.  Pink seems to be a continuing theme this week. I like pink, and when someone likes pink and other girly colors? I get all happy because it's like OOOH GIRLY!


Laura @ Serrano Style








Amber @ Dockside Love








Melissa @ The Clarkson Fam