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  • Emilily 5:46 pm on August 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    The Banner…in progress 

    Here is where I am with our custom banner.

    Here is where I am with our custom banner. (Ignore that weird blue tinge, I think I bumped up the contrast without paying attention to the entire right side of the image. In the final version, you will not be riding into a blue haze, and the lines will be darker and easier to see.)

    So here is the banner so far. I do not know anything about CSS, but my hope is that it is like a template, and there will be some sort of placeholder for our banner, so that, once the style sheet is in place, either one of us will be able to update the banner picture when needed, as long as we keep the same dimensions. Maybe if you haven’t had your appointment with Max yet, you can add this to the agenda?

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    • Carmen 7:19 pm on August 2, 2009 Permalink

      Basically, I totally love all of this. I love it all. I say go ahead and do the GG bridge! i love cliche! I really like the idea of keeping it clean and simple with the nice pencil lines. I think the color on our blog should come from the photos we post. Then we don’t have to worry about it getting too busy. i mean, your drawings are lovely, they are exactly what I would have envisioned. I also love the idea of a banner gallery, how perfect! hey, maybe you could have my arm going above my head with my fingers all splayed out, that would be cool, and kind of weird. Thats how i wave in real life, all spastic like. not really. i don’t really wave like that.

    • Emilily 7:20 pm on August 2, 2009 Permalink

      be careful, i could make it all spastic and then you’d be stuck with it :) I did consider making you wear your helmet…

  • Carmen 10:21 am on August 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: dictionaries   

    Sunday Project 

    I got a late start today.  However, as Max is making some Sunday pancakes I took the following historical photographs.  And thus It begins….

    "Sloppy Thinking Gets Worse Over Time"

    "Sloppy Thinking Gets Worse Over Time"

    Our project for today..... (honestly, this is the word I pointed to!)

    Our project for today..... (honestly, this is the word I pointed to!)

    photo-1

    This beautiful dictionary originally belonged to Max's father, Wally Hedrick.

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    • Emilily 10:40 am on August 2, 2009 Permalink

      Yummmmm, Sunday pancakes. real maple syrup? Wish I was there!

      That is a very odd word to randomly pick. Very freudian.

      Lovely dictionary.

    • Emilily 11:58 am on August 2, 2009 Permalink

      Oh, also, what time are we supposed to reply? Anytime, or at the same time?

    • Carmen 12:22 pm on August 2, 2009 Permalink

      i think anytime? I probably won’t be able to post mine until tonight. I hope I understand this project idea. I guess we’ll find out…

  • Emilily 12:58 am on August 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    Second test of the mini-project template 

    Sock Curls

    Well, here’s the second round of the 3-step project template. I think the size of the overall image, and the font in the text boxes are both about right – would you agree? I’ll email it to you right now as a psd file. The layers are named things like “Type here” and “drop image here” so hopefully it is not too complicated? You can call me and we can go through it together. Once you use it the first time, it’s really easy to just drop pictures in, flatten it, and then upload it!

    Now that I’m looking at it, if I fix it so you can delete the Step One, Step Two, etc captions in each text box, this would be a great way to present a simple recipe and three pictures, too.

     
    • Carmen 1:17 am on August 2, 2009 Permalink

      This is a really good idea – everything in the world can be explained in 3 easy steps. Step 1 = be born, Step 2 = live your life, Step 3 = die. Is that morbid? Ah, anyways, i really like this, can’t wait to use it tonight when i make a cocktail with three ingredients: 1 = alcohol, 2 = alcohol, 3 = love.

    • Emilily 10:24 am on August 2, 2009 Permalink

      No, it’s not morbid, but I feel it’s worth noting that you really have no control over steps 1 and 3 in this case, so it doesn’t even make for that great of a project. As far as projects go, a recipe for oatmeal might be more interesting than the life of your average human being…

      What kind of cocktail did you guys make?

      Whoa! Your post just magically appeared while I was typing!

  • Carmen 12:35 am on August 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Not sure how he does it… 

    Tree is talking to me

    Tree is talking to me

    Thats a big nest!

    Thats a big nest!

    close up

    close up

    Portal to parallel universe

    Portal to parallel universe

    I'm gonna live in there

    I'm gonna live in there

     
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