Everyone should check out this blog post from a web designer about these really cool business card designs. They are awesome! Check out the site, here.
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My hometown’s library, Harrisburg District Library, expressed that they wanted a logo so I had been thinking about it for a while. I obviously wanted to incorporate books, but I wanted them to have a simple, fresh look at the same time. I also wanted them to have a look that would still stand out verses every other library’s logo. For the color scheme, I wanted to incorporate blue, because they use a lot of blue in their stuff and also a little bit of the purple/white/black/gray theme that is the Harrisburg school, sports teams, etc. colors. I think that for a library especially, it is important to be connected to the community and I think that the colors do that. I haven’t heard back from them yet, so I don’t know what they think about it therefore it isn’t official yet, but this is my favorite of the designs that I came up with:
Let me know if you have any comments about it or any suggestions!
I absolutely LOVE the refresh cards I made for The Computer Doctor’s Refresh Marketing Campaign. I think that they turned out great! If you know of anyone who has a website that needs a little “refreshing,” contact The Computer Doctor, here.
So we decided to go in a completely different direction for Trang’s blog, The Aquamarine Magnolia. The original design was vintage-y (Look through my older posts for a picture of the old blog) to a more fresh and modern approach. I like both designs, but I do like the more simplistic style of the new one. You can visit The Aquamarine Magnolia, here.
So after making Trang’s contact cards a couple weeks ago, I decided contact cards for my friend Sarah would be perfect for part of her birthday gift. I made them and I just love them! I think that they turned out so adorable! (I wanted to post them on here when I first made them, but I didn’t want Sarah to see and ruin the surprise, so I had to wait–even though her birthday is not for another week or so, I just couldn’t resist and gave them to her early) Contact cards are perfect for networking, especially for business students. So let me know if you need cute and professional contact cards! π
Drew and I went out to eat “fancy dinner” atΒ Bayona restaurant in New Orleans last night to celebrate our 3 year anniversary. π It was excellent! I would definitely recommend anyone in the New Orleans area to eat there. It was nice to have an occasion to get all dressed-up for. π The menu was great, but my absolute favorite part of the meal was (you can tell I’m a simple girl) the homemade ice cream that we ordered for dessert. It was amazing! Plus they served it with this sugar/shortbread cookie that tasted just like my mom’s tart crust cookies (and my mom’s tart is one of my absolute favorite things!) so that was definitely a good ending to an already wonderful day. (it was the icing on the cake! haha!) π
As I was looking through some old pictures a few minutes ago for pictures of Drew and I for my last post, I came across this picture that I just had to share. π
This is Thanksgiving 2007. I believe that Kelsey was sitting on the couch first and then I sat down next to her and then Jill sat down next to me and we were all leaning over on Kelsey when Blake made the first move for a pile-up and jumped on us, followed by Evie, Blair and Ben, the neighbor boy. This is priceless! The sad part is that you can’t even see Jill anymore! Ha! You can see her legs under Blake and Evie and a little bit of her hair behind Blair’s back but other than that she is completely covered up! π
It was just about this same day three years ago that Drew and I started dating. It is amazing that it has gone by so quickly! It seems like that was just yesterday, and then again it seems like we’ve always been dating. I can’t even remember what my life was like without Drew in it. Anyway, I am also amazed at how far we have come and how much we have changed in the last three years. Three years ago, I was a junior in high school and Drew was a senior. High School Sweethearts. π We lived back in our hometown and went to the same high school. I remember him waiting for me outside of my classes to carry my books for me to my next class and I remember riding with him to lunch everyday. Almost every morning after I got out of early bird (speech team in the mornings), I would have to drive to his house to wake him up for school so he wouldn’ t be late. I remember the next year when I was a senior and he was a freshman in college at SIU. I remember worrying about colleges and scholarships and where we were going to be the next year. Things worked out wonderfully and the next year I was a freshman at Tulane and he was a sophomore at UNO and we both moved to New Orleans. Now I’m a sophomore at Tulane and he is a junior at UNO. We are still rolling right along and loving every minute of it. Exploring the world together, seeing new places and meeting new people.Β I love thinking back at all the memories and moments that we have shared, all the places we have gone and all the people we have met. We’ve been worlds apart (literally halfway across the world from each other one summer when I was in Europe and he was in Hawaii) and we have been right beside each other. Its funny how sometimes we are complete opposites and sometimes we are just alike. I’m so incredibly blessed to have such a wonderful person to share my life with and I can’t wait to see all the things that God holds for our lives in the future!Β π I am so lucky to be in love with my best friend!Β I love you so much Andrew! π
Here are just a few pictures that I found of us over the last couple years. The ones in the upper left corner are the oldest ones and the one in the lower right corner is the newest. The others are somewhere in between, mostly older rather than newer.Β π
So this weekend was pretty great. It was my Fall Break, so I got a four-day weekend to relax. Drew’s mom and grandma were in New Orleans visiting so Saturday Drew and I took them to St. Francisville, Louisiana, a tiny,Β historic town on the Mississippi River with several plantations and historic antebellum homes. We spent the day showing them around Greenwood and Rosedown, two of the plantations, and just relaxing in the lovely southern Fall weather. We also spent the weekend cooking,Β visiting New Orleans, and just relaxing. It was very lovely. π
Ahh why do I love fabric so much?! Maybe because all my life my mom has been sewing project after project and our house was full of fabric. Maybe it is just that it is so pretty and the designs are just so wonderful. Maybe it is because of all the possibilities of things you can create from it. I don’t know why, but I love it. I want to create my own fabric line one day. π
Anyway, I just got my Pineapple Brocade fabric in today that I ordered online from Heather Bailey. π It is BEAUTIFUL! π
It has more light lime green in it than you can see in the picture, which is perfect for me! I love green! I love the yellow in it too. Yellow was always my favorite color when I was little and my old bedroom at home used to be painted yellow. There is something just so sunshine-y and happy about it. π
I think that I’m going to use some of it to make a new king size pillowcase for the big pillow on my bed. I think it ties my room in very nicely and goes well with my other bedding. π It will look something like this:
